The Washington Post this morning has a news feature article about Patricia Dunn, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who is facing serious charges in California for spying on reporters and HP board members.
She has a very interesting life story. Dunn seems to have faced adversity – including four seperate bouts of cancer – throughout her life.
A Lifelong Fighter’s Toughest Round – washingtonpost.com
This week, the 53-year-old former HP chairman faced another major blow: She found out she has a recurrence of advanced ovarian cancer the day before the California attorney general charged her and four others with fraud and conspiracy in the corporate leak probe.
Circumstances required Dunn to be self-reliant from an early age, her friends and business associates said, and her diligence and willingness to learn delivered her from poverty to the top echelons of business. That same tenacity and conviction may have provoked the ire of her enemies on the HP board, who say her strong sense of mission — plug the leak — led her down an unethical path.
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