Carleton Fiorina - Definition and Overview

Carly Fiorina

Cara Carleton Sneed "Carly" Fiorina (September 6 1954 in Austin, Texas) is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Hewlett-Packard, an American technology company. Fiorina attended Stanford University as an undergraduate and studied medieval history and philosophy. Later she attended law school at University of California, Los Angeles but dropped out to pursue a career in business. She earned an MBA at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and an S.M. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management under the Sloan Fellow program.

Before joining HP she worked at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. She led HP's merger with Compaq; she was listed by Fortune (magazine) as the most powerful woman in business for six years in a row until 2004, when Meg Whitman was voted most powerful woman.

External links

• HP bio (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.html)
• Losing the HP Way (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/22/hp/)