Sheltering from the storm.
The merger of computer firms Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, announced by their chief executives on September 4, 2001, could prove to be a great challenge because of the companies' wildly different cultures and overlapping product portfolios. Neither company had much choice in the matter: Both were st...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 360; pp. 63 - 65 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
September 8 2001
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