Things You Didn’t Know About Carly Fiorina the Former Ceo of Hewlett-Packard
Born in Austin, Texas, Carly graduated from Charles E. Jordan High School Durham, North Carolina, and later earned B.A in Philosophy and Medieval History from Stanford University, in 1976. Initially, Carly thought of pursuing a career in law but after joining UCLA School of Law, she dropped out after her first semester in the school to further her studies with an MBA as well as M.SC from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
At the beginning of her career, Carly joined AT&T as a sales rep at the age of 25. Ten years down the road she had risen within AT&T’s Network Systems division to become its first female officer. Her exemplary work ethic singled her out among her peers and in five years, she was head of North American sales of AT&T.
In 1996, the company’s Bell Labs and Western Electric divisions were merged to birth Lucent Technologies, Inc. which Carly Fiorina was named as the head. She embarked on an audacious campaign to launch an IPO which culminated in the most successful IPO ever, raising $3 billion. In 1997 she was appointed Lucent’s group President making her at the time, the Most Powerful Woman in American Business.
