Report: Steve Jobs Offered to Help Former HP CEO Mark Hurd Get His Job Back

Mark Hurd resigned as CEO and Chairman of Hewlett-Packard in 2010 after an investigation into whether he sexually harassed one of HP's contractors, but at least one influential person didn't want to see him leave: Steve Jobs.

Shortly after HP announced Hurd's resignation, Jobs reached out to Hurd to offer his perspective -- as someone who had also been forced out of a company years before -- and urged Hurd to return to HP, according to a new report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

"The pair spent more than two hours together, Jobs taking Hurd on his customary walk around [his] tree-lined neighborhood. At numerous points during their conversation, Jobs pleaded with Hurd to do whatever it took…
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