Topic: Carly Fiorina

Happy Birthday, Carly Fiorina

Happy Birthday, Carly Fiorina! We’d ask you what your birthday wish is, but you’ve already made it abundantly clear; you’ve got your eye on Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2010, and why not? You’ve certainly got the ...READ»

The Past, Present, and Future of Hewlett-Packard

George Ander's inside account of Carly Fiorina and the reinvention of Hewlett-Packard is the most recent in a collection of essays, articles, and interviews that draw on the extraordinary history and imposing challenges at one of America's greatest corporations. Read through the following resources on one of the most dramatic transformation stories of our time.READ»

The CEO's New Clothes

Forget autocrats and visionaries. Farsighted, tolerant, humane CEOs aren't just nice to work for. They deliver nice results, too.READ»

The Carly Chronicles

An Inside Look at Her Campaign to Reinvent HPREAD»

What If Carly Were a Man?

The dirty little secret of Carly Fiorina (and every other woman CEO, for that matter): They're held to a different standard than guys.READ»

Sex & Power II

FC Now reader DDR says: "I also read that Carly Fiorina is part of the team." It's true. For some ideas about what the new California governor -- and Fiorina's post -- might mean for technology, check out former Fast Company editor ...READ»

A Plethora of Products

At an event in New York yesterday, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched more than 150 new products. Designed to help people "enjoy more," the launch includes new laptops, digital cameras, and an ultra-thin scanner. Carly Fiorina says that ...READ»

Office Handbook

Chapter 31: Personal HygieneREAD»

Carly, Leaving

Not long after a well-researched and -reasoned hatchet job in Fortune magazine, Carly Fiorina is stepping down at HP. Relation, causation aside, her departure raises some interesting questions. Formerly the It Girl of business, ...READ»

See Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya

I was on CNBC this morning to discuss our latest candidate for our regular item on CEO's Who've Got to Go, otherwise known as "CEO See-Ya." I must say, much as I enjoy doing the program, I don't necessarily enjoy doing it at 7:30 ...READ»

Keith Yamashita Wants to Reinvent Your Company

He may be the most influential consultant you've never heard of. He's certainly one of the most creative. And his new ideas about strategy are powering a number of high-profile change efforts -- including Carly Fiorina's campaign to transform Hewlett-Packard.READ»

CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays

    Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. These six CEOs got fired because their risky moves ...READ»

• Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistable, and Almost Certain to Backfire
• Incentive Clauses Gone Bad

Living Dangerously - Issue 31

In My Humble Opinion: "We won't see great leaders until we see great women leaders. As role models, men are going flat."READ»

Lights, Camera, Recovery!

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

A Brief History of Hard Work, Adjusted for Risk

Your great-grandfather knew what it meant to work hard. He hauled hay all day long, making sure that the cows got fed. In Fast Food Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Eric Schlosser writes about a worker who ruptured his vertebrae, ...READ»

So Long, Carly

So, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina got the axe today. It's worth asking the fascinating question that FC's George Anders posed nearly three years ago: What if Carly were a man? Would (s)he still be CEO? Would HP's board, its ...READ»

The Big Score

It was a $3 billion race that Hewlett-Packard simply couldn't afford to lose. Winning would justify its grand strategy -- and prove that it could run with the big dogs. An inside look at an upset, and an upstart's guide to competition.READ»

Taking the Sting out of Queen Bees

It was nearly 30 years ago, but I remember it like yesterday. I was in my first job, as a lowly researcher on a prestigious BBC news program. It wasn't really the right job for me -- I was still trying to figure out what that was -- ...READ»

Layoff Payoffs

The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy released their 10th annual CEO compensation survey earlier this week. Among the key findings in "Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose": CEOs were ...READ»

Fast Company Polls

Make Your Voice HeardREAD»

The World's Most Respected Leaders: Do You Agree?

The Financial Times and Pricewaterhouse Coopers has just published a list of the ten most respected business leaders today. And the envelope.... Bill Gates (Microsoft) Jack Welch (GE) Carlos Ghosn (Nissan) Warren Buffett ...READ»

The More, the Better?

To diversify your business activities or not. It's a tough decision. Carly Fiorina faced an uphill battle defending her controversial decision to acquire Compaq in 2002, after Hewlett-Packard announced an operating loss of $208 ...READ»

Into Thin Air

Maybe offshoring is good for the economy in the long run. Maybe it will boost productivity and save companies. But it's causing real pain to real people. And they never thought it would happen to them.READ»

Women Executive Leadership

Today, it is no longer about the lack of a level playing field for women to successfully compete with men in the executive suite. It's really about women executives not shooting themselves in the foot due to a lack of ...READ»

Survival Tactic: Recognize Your Female Talent

The founders of Fine Line Consulting know why corporate America needs more women at the top. Here, they discuss the roadblocks to retaining and rewarding female talent -- and prescribe solutions for vaulting those barriers.READ»