Carly is a diminutive form of her full first name, Carleton. Carly S. Fiorina is chairman, president and Chief Executive Officer of the Hewlett-Packard Company. Under her leadership, HP has been reinvented, revamped and reorganized. (Example: she collapsed 83 HP profit centers into 12.) Carly threw out the old "HP Way," careless of whose feathers got ruffled. This process has been largely successful, although the old HP lurks, Lovecraftian, beneath the surface, always ready to rise up and devour all.
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According to HP's web site, Ms. Fiorina holds a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University; a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md.; and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.
Carly has placed #1 on Fortune's list of the 50 most powerful women in business for the last three years running (see http://www.fortune.com/fortune/mostpowerful/index.html).