Dell’s Haas as Turnaround Boss Honed Profit-Lifting at HP

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When Dell Inc. President Marius Haas was still a rising executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2005, his new boss Mark Hurd entrusted him with a critical task: unearthing sales weaknesses and inflated costs.

Haas obliged, arming Hurd with candid information that spawned a flurry of cost-cutting and sent Hewlett-Packard on a five-year run of soaring profits and shares.