At center, Meg Whitman, newly appointed president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, speaks to Boris Lipkin of Vantage Partners (left), and Skip Law (right) before an on-stage interview by Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray at the Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club in Menlo Park San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. The event, at Viewpoints West, was sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. (LiPo Ching/Staff)