HP’s CEO, Mark Hurd was fired in August because he was had been involved in a sexual harassment. It is the third top manager fired from HP during the last five years.

Mark Hurd was a competent CEO. After he took the office, he carried out drastic reformation and managed to merge HP with EDS in a cost of 13.9 billion. During his term of office, the stock price of HP has risen by more than twice as much as his first coming. That is to say, Mark Hurd really contributed a lot to HP.

However, the trust of the company is the base of a top manager. The sexual harassment damaged the trust of both the staff members and shareholders. Thus the expulsion seems to be a must.

Another thing we need to learn from the expulsion is that the top management of any companies should learn to respect the business ethic which is always neglected as the promotion of position and the increase of authority. The responsibility top managers assume is great, so they need to be more aware of the decision they made, even in the daily life, in order to effect the company negatively.