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From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:12:18 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Heather Hudson <hudson () usfca edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:49:35 To: dfarber () earthlink net Subject: Smoking voice mails Well, I'm usually a passive reader of material you send out, but I thought this might be of interest. I've followed the HP merger story closely, not only as a stockholder but as a friend of Walter Hewlett. The current lawsuit alleges that HP offered a quid quo pro to get Deutsche Bank Asset Management to change their shareholder votes to go against the merger. This was apparently done the morning of the HP shareholders meeting on March 19 while some of us were sitting in the Flint Center in Cupertino. It does seem strange that the DB manager changed only some but not all of his shareholder votes. If he'd really seen a different light, you would think he would have changed the vote for all the shares he controlled. The story of Carly Fiorina's phone call that suggests such an HP strategy was in yesterday's Wall Street Journal and San Jose Mercury News. The transcript of the phone call and the audio itself are at http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3032968.htm. Does anyone know how the audio message itself was leaked? Heather Hudson Dr. Heather E. Hudson Professor and Director Telecommunications Management and Policy Program School of Business and Management University of San Francisco Phone: 415-422-6642; Fax: 415-422-2502; E-mail: hudson () usfca edu For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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