Happy Ending For HP’s Patricia Dunn

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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From Investment Outsider

Cooler heads prevailed in the HP spying scandal: All charges against former Chairman Patricia Dunn were dismissed, and the charges against the other defendants were knocked down to a single misdemeanor apiece (and in September, even those charges will disappear).

This is as it should be.  The HP scandal was a major embarrassment for the company, one that showed myopia and poor judgement on the part of Dunn and others.  But there’s a big difference between a bad business decision and a crime, and Dunn, at least, should never have been charged with the latter (let alone multiple felonies).

Even as she breathes a sigh of relief, of course, Dunn will presumably be asking the same question that many executives savaged by an emotional rush to judgment have asked: "Now, where do I go to get my reputation back?"

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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