Why HP is Betting Big on Greece

When you consider all the troubles you read about in Greece these days, it might be hard to imagine a case where any major American company would be making a long-term bet within that country. But, then, you haven?t met Tony Prophet. Prophet is the Senior VP for Operations in Hewlett-Packard?s Printing and Personal Systems Group, the sprawling $60 billion business unit that, as of July, was producing 16 percent of the world?s personal computers and more than half of the world?s printing devices. He?s the man responsible for three major exercises in HP?s complex industrial ballet: Getting the parts that go into those PCs and printers, getting them built and shipping them out to the world. He?s also the man responsible for the creation of the so-called HP train, a 7,000-mile railroad delivery route running from HP-operated factories in Chongqing, China, across Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland, and finally ending up in Germany.

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