“Every time I see that a company that has departed from the … combined chairman-chief executive role go back” to combining the roles, Grove said, “I’m sorry to see that.”
. . . HP had split the roles of chairwoman and chief executive in February 2005, when Carly Fiorina was ousted by the board.
. . . Grove was in New York to speak at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York. The school was named after Grove, following his $26 million donation to the school last year, the largest ever to the school.