{"id":874,"date":"2009-03-10T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/10\/hp-ceo-a-1979-grad-on-cover-of-fortune-magazine\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:02:57","slug":"hp-ceo-a-1979-grad-on-cover-of-fortune-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/hp-ceo-a-1979-grad-on-cover-of-fortune-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"HP CEO, a 1979 grad, on cover of Fortune Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hurd-march09.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hurd\" align=\"right\" \/>A quick perusal of the magazine rack at your local bookstore this week will find the face of a Baylor Bear staring back at you. Mark Hurd, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/mostadmired\/2009\/snapshots\/206.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hewlett-Packard<\/a> and often recognized as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/31\/bears-make-year-end-lists-for-achievements-in-science-and-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">top CEOs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/26\/two-alums-named-among-barrons-top-30-ceos\/\" target=\"_blank\">in the world<\/a>, graces the cover of the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune_archive\/2009\/03\/16\/toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">current issue<\/a> of <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> as part of the issue&#8217;s package on &#8220;The World&#8217;s Most Admired Companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inside, a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/27\/news\/companies\/lashinsky_hurd.fortune\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">seven-page feature<\/a> takes an in-depth look at the 1979 graduate&#8217;s management style and how he&#8217;s made HP the world&#8217;s biggest technology company. The story goes all the way back to his time at Baylor, as the author interviewed his former fraternity partner and varsity tennis partner, Carl Good. Definitely a good read &#8212; not only for business people, but for anyone interested in one of Baylor&#8217;s more prominent alumni. After all, chances are good you&#8217;ve got an HP computer, printer or calculator somewhere around your house.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Mark Hurd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick perusal of the magazine rack at your local bookstore this week will find the face of a Baylor Bear staring back at you. Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard and often recognized as one of the top CEOs in the world, graces the cover of the current issue of Fortune Magazine as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}