Attitudes that Many on Wall Street would call Acceptable

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We finally know why HP so properly canned their president Mark Hurd. From ABC News on 30 Dec 2011:

Hewlett-Packard Former CEO Mark Hurd Sex Harassment Scandal Detailed in Letter

A letter describing allegations of sexual harassment by former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has surfaced, claiming that the married Hurd repeatedly pressured a female contractor for sex and bragged about his popularity with “many” women, including Sheryl Crow.

Hurd allegedly showed off his checking-account balance of over $1 million to impress the contractor, Jodie Fisher, who made the allegations of harassment.

Fisher hosted executive summit events for HP, earning $30,000. The letter written by her celebrity attorney Gloria Allred was obtained by the media late Thursday after the Delaware Supreme Court unsealed it. Hurd’s lawyers tried to keep the letter confidential but the court ruled the attorneys did not show that disclosing it would violate California’s privacy rights.

Meanwhile Larry Ellison of Oracle decided this was acceptable. And hired Hurd as a co-president.