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Different activities, different virtues The recent remarks of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, asserting that none of the major party candidates for President or Vice President could run a major corporation, prompt me to set forth some thoughts I regard as fundamental to a true conservative understanding of the world. One of the hallmarks of conservatism according to Russell Kirk is its respect for the particular. Sadly too many so-called conservatives at the turn of the 21st century fail to embrace the respect of the particular. Just as those on the left seem to think that all human activities can...

(CNN) — Top McCain-Palin official Carly Fiorina is facing criticism from some within the campaign for a day of what they call "very Biden-like" comments, after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member of the Republican ticket would be capable of running a company. Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden is noted for his off-the-cuff gaffes. Asked by a St. Louis radio station whether she thought Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could run a company like Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina responded: "No, I don't. “But that's not what she's running for. Running a corporation is a different set...

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned top John McCain aide, said she doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to run a major corporation. For that matter, Fiorina said, McCain, Obama and Biden aren't capable of that kind of job either. Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO and McCain adviser Carly Fiorina said Sarah Palin could not run a major company. The Republican presidential candidate has been trying to portray himself as someone who can fix the country's economic woes. But that is a far different task than running a Fortune 500 corporation, Fiorina told MSNBC Tuesday. Democratic candidate Barack Obama's camp immediately circulated...

We did some digging ..and found the FULL CLIP of what Carly Fiorina said…not the edited clip the Senator Obama campaign sent to virtually everyone in the media (and MS/NBC continues to run the edited clip!! UGH..what is MS/NBC’s problem? They need to stop doing that!)

Barack Obama’s campaign was “deceitful” when it clipped part of an interview in which Republican Victory 2008 Chairwoman Carly Fiorina said John McCain was not qualified to be the head of a corporation, Fiorina said Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, appeared on MSNBC, where she said none of the candidates is qualified to run a major corporation, but that should not prevent them from running the country. “I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation. I don’t think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don’t think Joe Biden could run...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does not have the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard. So says Carly Fiorina, one of John McCain's top advisers and the former CEO of that company....

Hillary Clinton's youngest brother has met a top aide to the Republican candidate John McCain, fuelling accusations that some of those close to the former First Lady are actively working against Barack Obama. Tony Rodham, who held a fundraising event for Mrs Clinton in Pennsylvania when she was battling against Mr Obama in the Democratic primaries, met Carly Fiorina, Mr McCain's senior economic adviser, in the state. Miss Fiorina was taking part in a two-day Pennsylvania bus tour designed to woo disenchanted Clinton supporters into the McCain camp. His wife Megan and their two children also attended the meeting at...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? One of Hillary Clinton's brothers and some Pennsylvania Democrats who backed her presidential bid socialized Monday with a top adviser to Republican John McCain. The Scranton Times-Tribune reports Tony Rodham attended a gathering hosted by political consultant Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of the Clintons. Brazil is a paid national director of the Citizens for McCain coalition. Also there, McCain top economic adviser Carly Fiorina. The other guests included an attorney who coordinated Clinton's presidential campaign in northeast Pennsylvania during the primary election, and the sister of Scranton Democratic Mayor Chris Doherty. Under Wraps The...

A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. The private gathering featured Carly Fiorina, Mr. McCain’s top economic adviser, and took place at the Dunmore home of political consultant Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of Mrs. Clinton’s family who has signed on as paid national director of Mr. McCain’s Citizens for McCain Coalition. The attendees included Tony Rodham, Mrs. Clinton’s youngest sibling, his wife, Megan, and their two children; attorney Kathleen Granahan Kane, who...

Meet Caren Z. Turner, a Democratic fund-raiser, a devout supporter of Hillary Clinton, and a lobbyist with a 25-year Inside-the-Beltway career. "I am not comfortable with Obama," Turner said in an interview with The Record last week. Turner, who began this year as a member of "The Group,'' an informal committee of Hillary Clinton's top New Jersey fund-raisers, is now a member of Together4Us, a group of disenchanted Hillraisers who recently sounded out Carly Fiorina, a top McCain adviser. Barack Obama, she believes, benefited from Democratic Party nominating rules that disenfranchised voters in Florida and Michigan and gave disproportionate clout...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Ashley Judd, actress.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign. THIS WEEK (ABC): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.; David Gergen, former White House adviser.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; former Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio; Kenneth Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state;...

Sen. John McCain's growing popularity among women is fueling speculation that he will selecta female running mate, ripening talk about conservative favorite Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, one of his top economic advisers. Political pundits, election strategists and even some Democrats say putting a dynamic woman on the Republican ballot would tip independents, especially the "security moms" who helped President Bush win re-election in 2004. "If McCain picked a woman, it would certainly get the attention and perhaps votes of some Democrats and a number of independents who supported Hillary Clinton," said...

Sen. John McCain's growing popularity among women is fueling speculation that he will selecta female running mate, ripening talk about conservative favorite Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, one of his top economic advisers. Political pundits, election strategists and even some Democrats say putting a dynamic woman on the Republican ballot would tip independents, especially the "security moms" who helped President Bush win re-election in 2004. "If McCain picked a woman, it would certainly get the attention and perhaps votes of some Democrats and a number of independents who supported Hillary Clinton," said...

GRAND RAPIDS --When asked at a luncheon here if she would consider accepting the vice presidential nomination on the ticket with John McCain, Carly Fiorina shrugged it off. "He has a long list of highly-qualified people," said Fiorina, a top economic adviser to McCain and a former Hewlett Packard Co. CEO. "I'm not running for office. I'm not looking for anything out of this, other than to get this man elected president."

The Wall Street Journal reports that Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and senior adviser to Sen. John McCain, met with a group of 25 prominent supporters and fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Clinton at a private home in Westchester County, NY. The group included several so-called "Hillraisers," each of whom have raised in excess of $100,000 for Clinton's failed primary campaign. The meeting was repeatedly sought by the Hillary supporters and is at least the second such meeting between backers of Clinton and the McCain campaign. An organizer of the meeting, Amy Siskind, said that the pro-Hillary groups represented pledged to...

Sen. John McCain continues to oppose a tax increase as part of a comprehensive remaking of the nation’s Social Security program, despite comments by a top adviser that left the door open to such a tax hike. In an interview with Bloomberg News, top McCain adviser Carly Fiorina raised the possibility of supporting higher Social Security taxes, if a bipartisan coalition is “creative enough” to only impact wealthier Americans in the comprehensive solution it develops. Fiorina’s remarks echoed comments made by McCain, R-Ariz., before he became a presidential candidate. In February 2005, McCain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that...

The Talk Shows Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Tribute to Tony Snow with guests including Vice President Dick Cheney and commentator Rush Limbaugh.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain; Sen. Claire Mccaskill, D-Mo.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind. THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Govs. Mark...

While John McCain often embodies an anything-goes attitude when talking to reporters, it doesn’t mean some subjects can’t make him sweat—say, birth control. A female Los Angeles Times reporter inquired today about comments made earlier this week by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett Packard. At a breakfast with reporters, Fiorina suggested that individuals–and women in particular–be given more flexibility to determine what their health insurance plans should cover. “There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won’t cover birth-control medication. Those women would like a choice,” she observed. When McCain was asked...

Carly Fiorina has headed a major Silicon Valley corporation, ascended to the rank of America's top female business icon, authored a book - and now is on the short list of possible GOP vice presidential candidates. But now the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard has a new challenge: As a leader of Republican National Committee's 2008 "Victory" drive and a chief adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, she's being buffeted by intense criticism that, as a star campaign surrogate, she is playing fast and loose with the facts. --snip-- It wasn't the first such slip-up, Keenan said. Fiorina's public reassurance to...

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina may or may not be on Arizona Sen. John McCain's short list for vice president, but she already is taking a crucial role in the Republican presidential hopeful's campaign. In March, Fiorina was picked by the Republican National Committee to chair a group directed to raise money and get out the vote for this year's elections. Shortly after that move was announced, Fiorina was interviewed by Business Week about her role. "My role is to be the primary advocate for John McCain and for the Republican Party," she said. "Certainly there are a lot of...

While the vice presidential slot may be John McCain’s best means of wooing those Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters who remain loath to embrace Barack Obama, the Republican party is a thin source of politically viable women, leaving McCain with few top-tier options. The most-mentioned potential running mates — former Republican candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty — are all men. Yet no clear front-runner has emerged, and there are at least three women McCain might select to fill out the ticket. All three would mark a symbolic turn away from Vice...

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.; Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): (Hosted by Brian Williams) Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Biden, D-Del.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign; Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.; American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Red Cavaney; Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Govs....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Carly Fiorina is quickly becoming the new face of John McCain's campaign. Once considered the most powerful businesswoman in the United States, Fiorina has evolved from the Republican presidential candidate's top economic adviser to a catch-all advocate and attack dog on a range of subjects from women's issues to the Iraq war. It's a far cry from the corporate boardroom but the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive appears to be in her element and the Arizona senator clearly likes it that way. Thus the question: if McCain wins the White House, where will Fiorina end up? "It is...

Washington: Republican John McCain has enlisted the help of Carly Fiorina, once the most powerful businesswoman in the United States, to get women behind his campaign for the White House.Fiorina empathised with Hillary Clinton's experience when she took questions from across the country during a McCain "virtual town-hall meeting". "Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through," Fiorina said."I also believe though, if we are...

Here is John McCain adviser Carley Fiorina being interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who seemed fixated on pressing one of Barack Obama's favorite attack lines against John McCain. Every time he brought it up, she did a great job of slapping it down! (see video) P.S. For those who can't watch video at work, Blitzer kept pressing Obama's charge that McCain favors tax cuts for Big Oil. The truth is, he favors tax cuts on ALL businesses to give incentives to companies to keep jobs in, or move jobs to America. Blitzer did not want to let it go.

Campaign 2008 McCain camp claims it has money lead over Obama By Klaus Marre and Walter Alarkon Posted: 05/27/08 11:45 AM [ET] Carly Fiorina, an adviser to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, said Tuesday that the Arizona Republican has more funds at his disposal than does Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). “At the end of the April, John McCain had cash on hand of over $60 million, and Sen. Obama had cash on hand of over $50 million,� Fiorina said on CNN. However, she added the money that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has in the bank to...

As chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company, Carly Fiorina coined the term “perfect enough” to goad the hidebound, overly cautious company to embrace change and innovation more quickly. Now, as the Republican National Committee’s "Victory Chair," Fiorina is pushing John McCain for president. She says conservatives who are skeptical about him need to look at the broader picture. “When people strive for perfection, they frequently don’t make much progress,” Fiorina tells Newsmax. “So what I said in my book ‘Tough Choices’ is, if you’re focused on making progress, if you’re focused on making the right choices, then perfect enough is...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - After running one of Silicon Valley's powerhouse companies for six years, Carly Fiorina now has her sights set on the White House. Not for her — not yet, at least. But for John McCain. Fiorina, 53, joined the Republican senator's presidential campaign this spring. She brings with her a long list of wealthy friends and supporters and intimate insight into how some of the largest corporations work, having been at the helm of Hewlett-Packard Co. and before that, senior management at AT&T Inc. and its spinoff Lucent Technologies. While the new gig is her first in...

Soul searching Republicans are turning to an unlikely savior, one-time party heretic and now presumptive White House nominee John McCain, as they try to stave off an electoral disaster. Stung by the Democratic seizure of three staunch conservative seats in Congress, Republican lawmakers fear a shellacking in November's general election, after losing control of both chambers of Congress in 2006. The rise of McCain as their champion is not without irony, since the 71-year-old Arizona senator has quarreled with his own party for years on issues as diverse as immigration, campaign finance reform and global warming. But it is precisely...

One of the most important figures in the presidential campaign this fall is a controversial, hypercompetent blonde. She has blazed new paths, is always on message, and has written a best-selling memoir. Friends and foes alike refer to her by her first name only. And she'll play a significant role shoring up the bona fides of her party's candidate among a core constituency that might be wavering. No, I'm not talking about the Democrats sending out Hillary Clinton on behalf of Barack Obama to reassure white working-class voters. I'm talking about Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard,...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Joe Andrew, former DNC chairman; Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Govs. Mike Easley, D-N.C., and Bill Richardson, D-N.M; Robert Reich, former...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that California faces a budget gap that could approach $20 billion through June 2009, a dizzying projection that adds further confusion to the depth of California's financial crisis. "Right now, we have approximately, altogether, $20 billion of deficit," the Republican governor told business leaders in Orange County. "It's going to be a big challenge." The estimated gap for the fiscal year that begins July 1 already has prompted talk in Sacramento of tax increases and spending cuts that could hit classrooms, law enforcement and health care. The new figure essentially doubles the Republican governor's deficit...

Carly Fiorina -- the former Hewlett-Packard CEO currently serving as John McCain's Victory Chairwoman... has advised the Departments of Defense and State, USAID, as well as the CIA -- and she's learned a thing or two via this proximity to the leviathan. "I've gotten a closer look at how Washington works," she confirmed. "Washington has many well-intentioned and able people, but all bureaucracies take on a life of their own. All bureaucracies become internally focused. All bureaucracies, if left alone, become inefficient and ineffective. There is plenty of opportunity in Washington to offer greater performance incentives and streamline...

Conservatives and party regulars were not happy about the selection of Carly Fiorina to head the Republican National Committee’s “Victory 2008” campaign raising funds for the presidential election. She was one of the nation’s most visible CEOs before she was fired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005 for not generating enough profits. Federal Election Commission records show Fiorina contributed nothing to the Republican Party the last eight years. Her only political giving was to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign—$2,100 in 2006 and $2,300 in 2007. Fiorina was at McCain’s side when he campaigned in the critical Michigan and Florida races. Fiorina has...

Republican National Committee officials confirmed today that former Hewlett-Packard boss Carly Fiorina is moving in to take over as chair of Victory 2008, the group that raises money and handles the get-out-the-vote operation, including the 72-hour campaign leading up to Election Day. She will be joined by longtime GOP activist Lewis Eisenberg, John McCain's national finance cochair, who will serve as finance chairman, and Frank Donatelli, a former Reagan political director, as RNC deputy chairman. There also remains talk that McCain strategist Charles Black will join the RNC as well. The addition of McCain supporters to the RNC is typical...

Carly Fiorina wins praise for defining a new vision for a slow-moving bureaucracy that had essentially missed the Internet revolution. Before Fiorina, HP had a murky strategy for linking its computer, server and printer businesses. She recast HP as an IBM-like strategic partner for customers trying to take advantage of the always-on aspects of the Web era.  Carly Fiorina's career has followed an uncannily cinematic arc. A restless law school dropout becomes a master sales rep for Ma Bell, then rises higher in business than any other woman, running Hewlett-Packard Co. for six years. She wrestles that stodgy Silicon...

Hewlett-Packard Co. may be the world's largest technology company, but the superlative that better suits it these days is Provider of the World's Strangest Corporate Drama. For two weeks, almost every day has brought revelations of questionable tactics that HP investigators used this year and last to root out who had been describing boardroom deliberations to the media. Corporate intelligence is an old and frequently practiced art, but HP's efforts feel more Watergate than Wall Street. Not only did investigators impersonate board members, employees and journalists to obtain their phone records, but according to multiple reports, they also surveilled an...

Excerpt - Newsweek is reporting that HP has called an emergency board meeting. [Link] Read the reports on this fiasco whereby Chairwoman Patricia “Patty” Dunn is at the center of a spy case whereby reporters phone records were illegally obtained resulting in all sorts of legal and SEC violations and the sudden resignation of Tom Perkins as well as other issues. There is no way — after a corporate witch hunt that results in spying that targets a New York Times reporter, Fortune Magazine reporter, CNET reporters and others — that this woman stays in office. ~ snip ~

Excerpt - ... According to an internal HP e-mail, [Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia] Dunn then took the extraordinary step of authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the January 2006 communications of the other 10 directors-not the records of calls (or e-mails) from HP itself, but the records of phone calls made from personal accounts. That meant calls from the directors’ home and their private cell phones. ...

The dot-com bust signaled the "end of the beginning" for technology, Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, told business leaders Wednesday. Speaking at the Global Business Forum in Sydney, Fiorina told the audience that by 2030, technology would be "woven into the fabric of life." She said that within 25 years, technology will be so integral to daily living that we will take it for granted. "We have entered the main event of technology…We are talking about an era where technology is woven into the fabric of life and almost disappears. It means that technology is in everything and...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Toppled from her perch as one of Silicon Valley's most powerful women one year ago today, Carly Fiorina has put together a new life that retains some of the trappings, if not the influence, of an elite corporate insider. Since Hewlett-Packard's board showed her the door, the ousted chief executive has been crisscrossing the globe -and commanding big bucks -- speaking about how to be a good leader. In lots of little ways, Fiorina's past year has been about trading places. Her glory may be fading on the West Coast, but rising on the East Coast....

Toppled from her perch as one of Silicon Valley's most powerful women one year ago today, Carly Fiorina has put together a new life that retains some of the trappings, if not the influence, of an elite corporate insider.

Book to address issues such as leadership, women in business, and the importance of technologyCarly Fiorina has reached a deal to pen a memoir about her dramatic career, which went on hiatus in February following her ouster from Hewlett-Packard (HP) (Profile, Products, Articles) after a turbulent five-year run as the company's chief executive. Due out in late 2006 from Penguin Group USA's Portfolio imprint, Fiorina's book will blend writing about her career with her views on topics such as leadership, how women can thrive in business, and how technology will reshape the world, her publisher said. In her trailblazing career,...

Carly Fiorina, World Bank president? That's the buzz in the business world after a published report said the ousted chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard may be on the short list of possible candidates for the prestigious post. The World Bank, which is based in Washington, is a major international organization that provides loans and other forms of financial assistance to developing nations. Fiorina, who was one of the most prominent executives in the world before she was suddenly fired by the HP board, is reportedly being considered as a nominee by the Bush administration, according to the New York Times...

Ex-Chief of Hewlett Seen as Candidate to Head World Bank By ELIZABETH BECKER WASHINGTON, March 1 - Carleton S. Fiorina, who lost her job as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard last month, has emerged as a strong candidate to become the next president of the World Bank, according to an official in the Bush administration. --edit-- Ms. Fiorina, the sole woman on the list of World Bank candidates, carries far less political baggage than Mr. Wolfowitz and has a reputation for dynamic leadership. As the head of a Fortune 500 company for six years, she gained managerial experience that puts her...

Feb. 12, 2005, 8:56PM Was it just another firing? Failure of top female executive raises gender issue By L.M. SIXEL Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle RESOURCES WOMEN IN CHARGE The ouster of Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina leaves women in charge of eight Fortune 500 companies, shown here with rankings and when they took over. Hewlett-Packard was No. 11 in Fortune magazine's most recent list. • 104. Sara Lee: Brenda Barnes in February 2005 • 128. Rite Aid: Mary Sammons in June 2003 • 130. Xerox: Anne Mulcahy in August 2001 • 243. Lucent Technologies: Patricia Russo in January 2002 •...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The next chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. will need to decide whether to stick with Carly Fiorina's two-pronged strategy of trying to beat the company's rivals in what they do best _ IBM in premium computers and services, Dell in business and consumer systems. Or the Silicon Valley icon could effectively concede defeat in its current multifront war and break itself apart into separate businesses that can focus their employees, management and research resources on specific markets. After showing Fiorina the door this week, HP's board made its near-term intent clear: It wants to keep...

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP)- Hewlett-Packard Co. paid Carleton Fiorina about $3.81 million in total compensation last year before ousting her as chairman and chief executive this week. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer company also agreed to dole out more than $21 million in severance-related payments to Fiorina, according to a proxy statement filed late Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the payouts planned for the departing CEO is more than $7 million being awarded as part of the company's cash long-term performance program. As reported, Hewlett-Packard's board Tuesday asked Fiorina to step down after what board Chairman Patricia Dunn...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Carly Fiorina's ouster from Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday wasn't totally unexpected, but for some it was a disturbing end to an otherwise encouraging chapter in U.S. women's corporate progress. The number of Fortune 500 companies with female chief executives declined 12.5 percent Wednesday, from eight to seven, according to the nonprofit Catalyst Inc., which tracks women in business. And it will shrink again soon, with the pending resignation of Marce Fuller at independent power producer Mirant Corp. "It's a shame it's a woman CEO, because it could influence people to think that opportunities for women are on...

BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- The fact is that Hewlett-Packard before Carly Fiorina (nee Cara Carleton S. Sneed) was probably less dynamic than it is today. She managed to bring some marketing savvy to the company and managed to shake up that stodgy corporate culture known as "the H-P way." That said, H-P slowly evolved from an engineering-centric company to one that makes many of its products offshore and has become a commodity provider too ensnared in the world of humdrum PC's when companies like IBM have bailed out of the business as Dell continues to effortlessly dominate. While there will...