USA Today: CEO faces gantlet at hearings

Professor Eric Johnson via USA TODAY about the defining moment for HP CEO Mark Hurd as he is about to take the stand before a congressional committee to defend his actions of approving "at least part of a plan to snoop on journalists, board members, even his own employees."

"His performance on Thursday will be a career-defining moment," says business professor Eric Johnson at Dartmouth College. Hurd has a good chance of surviving it, Johnson says: He has handled the crisis fairly well, so far. But if things go well Thursday, it will "at least put to bed the question of whether Mark Hurd can survive (the scandal)," Dartmouth's Johnson says.

Source: USA TODAY by Michelle Kessler, September 28, 2006