Carly Fiorina

Cara Carleton Sneed " Carly " Fiorina ( born September 6, 1954 in Austin, Texas) is an American manager. From 1999 to 2005, she was CEO of the U.S. technology company Hewlett -Packard (HP).

Life

Study

Carly Fiorina attended Stanford University and received her bachelor's degree in Medieval Studies and Philosophy. At the University of California, Los Angeles, she took a law degree, but broke it off after one semester. She studied economics at the University of Maryland and received his MBA. Later, she interrupted her career to complete a one-year Management Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Management

Fiorina began her management career in sales of AT & T / Long Lines and later switched to AT & T / Network Systems, from which, after the break-up of AT & T the independent company Lucent Technologies emerged.

In July 1999, Fiorina took the place of the CEO of Hewlett -Packard and took over in January 2000 is also the Chairman of the Board. Your choice has been commented in the press as surprising as it enjoys as outsider supposedly do not have sufficient knowledge of the industry. Fiorina saw their main task in the centralization, consolidation and sales orientation of the decentralized and dominated by an engineering company culture. To win on the PC and server market leadership, she led in 2002 by the merger between Hewlett -Packard and Compaq, which met in the industry with rejection and the stock prices of both companies could briefly fall sharply.

In her tenure at Hewlett -Packard Fiorina remained controversial, despite its success in increasing sales and the company's financial consolidation. She was accused ( by the end of 2003 15,000 people lost their jobs ), among others, lack of industry knowledge and extensive layoffs. Compare their performance management experts at Hewlett -Packard contrast with Lou Gerstner's turnaround of IBM. From 2000 to 2005 Fiorina was nominated for six consecutive years the most powerful woman in business by the U.S. business magazine Fortune.

After internal disputes with the Board of Hewlett -Packard on the disclosure of confidential information to the press that Fiorina dismissed on 9 February 2005 without giving reasons. Your compensation totaled more than 21 million U.S. dollars.

After saying goodbye to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan in January 2006, she served as a possible successor in the conversation. Instead, she worked on her autobiography, titled Tough Choices ( Title of the German edition: With hardball ) in the fall of 2006 appeared.

Policy

Fiorina is a Republican. She was 2003 member of a group that advised the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger in the compilation of his government. In the 2008 presidential campaign she supported John McCain. In August 2009, they announced their interest in running for the election of California's representative in the U.S. Senate in November and then her candidacy. On 8 June 2010 she was elected with 56.5 % of votes cast for the Republican challenger of Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, against which they then lost in November of the same year with 43.3 % of the vote.