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Carleton \"Carly\" Sneed Fiorina (born Cara Carleton Sneed on September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman. more...

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As vice-president at AT&T in 1996, she directed the strategy and orchestrated the initial public offering (IPO) of Lucent, the most successful IPO in U.S. history up to that point in time. In 1998, Fortune magazine listed her as #1 \"most powerful woman in business.\" The next year, Fiorina switched to the technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and became its chief executive officer. In 2000, she also became HP’s chairman of the board. With the support of the Board of Directors, she led HP into a controversial merger with rival Compaq in 2002. During her tenure, the market halved HP’s value and the company incurred heavy job losses. When Fiorina was asked by the Board of Directors to step down in 2005, the company stated that Fiorina had put in place “a plan that has given HP the capabilities to compete and win\" and that HP \"look forward to accelerating execution of the company's strategy\".

Currently Fiorina is a contributor for the Fox Business Network and a top economic advisor to Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Early life and education

Cara Carleton Sneed was born in Austin, Texas to Joseph Tyree Sneed III, a constitutional law scholar, law school professor and dean, and later federal judge, and Madelon Juergens Sneed, a portrait and abstract artist. She attended Charles E. Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina for her senior year; the family frequently relocated during this time.

Fiorina received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University in 1976. She attended the UCLA School of Law but dropped out after one semester. Fiorina received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980. She received a Master of Science in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management under the Sloan Fellows program in 1989.

Early career

Fiorina worked various secretarial positions, including at HP as a temporary worker working for Kelly Services (then Kelly Girls).

Fiorina worked as a receptionist at Marcus & Millichap and was a broker briefly. During her speech at the 2006 ICSC convention in Las Vegas, Fiorina noted that her time at Marcus & Millichap helped her learn how to navigate the business world.

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