Question of the Week: Which CEO Is Next to Go? UPDATED

The bodies are piling up in the boardroom. Last night, Hewlett Packard stock soared on speculation that the board may oust Léo Apotheker, its CEO of nearly a year, and perhaps replace him with Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and former candidate for governor of California. (Update: HP made it official today, announcing that Whitman is its new CEO.)