No, Apple's senior VPs are not the S&P 500's best-paid execs

• Today in Tech: Why HP's turnaround will come in 2014

  Also: How Tim Cook incentivized several Apple execs to stay; did Kleiner Perkins 'fire' Ellen Pao?

  HP's Whitman: Wait until 2014 for turnaround [GIGAOM]

  "We believe that 2014 will be the year you will see real recovery and expansion at HP. You should see every business unit recover and grow. Our investments in R&D and IT will begin to kick in. And we will have demonstrated an ability to manage costs in line with MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2012 5:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bob Mansfield, Ellen Pao, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

• Early retirement isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Just ask Apple's Bob Mansfield.

  Apple watchers are scratching their heads over a surprise executive decision

  FORTUNE -- It was like a game of musical chairs in which a seat is added rather than removed when the music stops.

  In a press release that came two months to the day after Tim Cook announced the retirement of Apple's (AAPL) long-time hardware chief, Bob Mansfield, Cook let it be known Monday that Mansfield isn't leaving the company after MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 28, 2012 8:42 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bob Mansfield, Mobile, PCs, Tablets

• Brain drain: Apple's senior hardware chief retires rich

  Bob Mansfield is the second key executive to leave since Steve Jobs died

  FORTUNE -- One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple's (AAPL) institutional values -- as embodied by his hand-picked executive team -- would survive his passing.

  The team lost a key member when Ron Johnson, who built the Apple Stores, departed in November run J.C. Penney. Because Johnson made his decision to leave public nine months MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 29, 2012 8:17 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bob Mansfield, Mobile, PCs, Steve Jobs, Tablets, Tim Cook

• An Apple VP's $13.7 million payday

  The head of hardware engineering sold 99% of his beneficially owned shares on Monday

  Steve Jobs may be content to let his 5,546,451 shares of Apple (AAPL) rise and fall with the vagaries of the stock market, but some of his executive staff are a bit more attentive to their holdings.

  One of the more pro-active traders is Bob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president in charge of Mac and iPhone hardware engineering. MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 27, 2011 1:59 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bob Mansfield, Financials, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Restricted stock units, RSU, Steve Jobs, Stock options

• Bob Mansfield's $10 million payday

  An options windfall for Apple's top Mac and iPhone hardware engineer

  Several senior Apple (AAPL) executives -- including Betsy Rafael (controller), Jeffrey Williams (operations senior VP) and Bertrand Serlet (software engineering senior VP) -- took advantage of the company's recent record share prices to exercise some of the stock options they've been sitting on.

  But none saw quite the windfall that Bob Mansfield enjoyed last Thursday. According to an SEC Form 4 MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 26, 2010 8:06 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bertrand Serlet, Bob Mansfield, iMac, iPhone, Mark Papermaster, Mobile, PCs, Raycer

• After Steve Jobs: Handicapping Apple's back bench

  "You know, I think it wouldn't be a party," Steve Jobs told Fortune in February, describing the future of his company if, as he put it, Jobs got hit by a bus. "But there are really capable people at Apple. ... My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors."

  Life at Apple without Jobs may be more than just a hypothetical. The 53-year-old Silicon Valley MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 24, 2008 11:20 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Bertrand Serlet, Bob Mansfield, Jonathan Ive, Peter Oppenheimer, Phil Schiller, Ron Johnson, Scott Forstall, Sina Tamaddon, Steve Jobs, Succession plans, Tim Cook, Tony Fadell