Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters Published December 1st

Robert Burgelman, Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business

On December 1, 2016, Oxford University Press published Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters, written by Robert Burgelman, Webb McKinney, and Philip E. Meza. This book outlines Hewlett Packard’s history, from 1939 – 2016, including chapters on various CEOs – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, John Young, Lew Platt, Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Léo Apotheker, and Meg Whitman – and their contributions.

Becoming Hewlett Packard draws on research conducted over more than 15 years, documenting the contributions of HP’s CEOs in sustaining the process of becoming the Americana of global business. It examines and explains the role of the CEO: defining and executing the key tasks of strategic leadership, and developing four key elements of the company’s strategic leadership capability. The authors introduce new concepts including “the process of corporate becoming,” the “paradox of corporate becoming,” the “antifragility of adaptive capacity,” and the “existential situation facing the CEO.”

The framework discussed offers practical tools for CEOs and boards of directors of existing companies who want to ensure their companies are relevant, long-lasting, and great.

For more information on this book, visit the Oxford University Press Web site.

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