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Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has announced that she will seek the Republican nomination for the 2016 US presidential election:
"Yes, I am running for president," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the announcement to host George Stephanopoulos. "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works. I understand bureaucracies, and that's what our federal government has become — a giant, bloated, unaccountable, corrupt bureaucracy," she said. "I understand technology, which is a tool both to re-imagine government to re-engage citizens in the process of government, and I understand executive decision-making, which is making a tough call in a tough time with high stakes for which you're prepared to be accountable."
The former Hewlett-Packard executive said she does not believe that it is necessary to have experience in political office, something that she has heard from Americans while traveling throughout the country. "They're kind of tired of the political class, and they believe that we need to return to a citizen government," she said.
Fiorina also slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying that she is not trustworthy. While Fiorina said she admires Clinton, she asserted that the former secretary of state has not been transparent about issues ranging from Benghazi to foreign donations to her family's foundation.
Fiorina also launched her presidential campaign website on Monday, featuring a one-minute video with the message that America's founders "never intended us to have a professional political class." The video begins with Fiorina watching Clinton's presidential announcement. After Clinton says she is running for president, Fiorina switches off the TV, turns to the camera and delivers her message.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson made his announcement on Sunday; former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee is expected to join the race on Tuesday.
Gizmodo points out that Fiorina's team forgot to register the domain carlyfiorina.org.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:24AM
No allowance for the time period during which she was there gewg_?
The tech bubble had just burst in 2000, it was clear Dell and HP and Compaq weren't all three going to survive.
Everybody's stock went down.
Everybody shed employees.
I don't like everything she did at HP, (and neither did the Board), but I don't think you can pin the whole 2000 tech bubble on her alone.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:44AM
...and acquiring a failed company was the correct move?
Clearly not.
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @05:18AM
Do you know any long time HP employees who were there when she took over? She destroyed something beautiful. She stomped on a corporate butterfly. Why? Stupidity. The stupidity of a child who rips the legs off a newt to see what will happen.
There are many great entrepreneurs and managers in this country. She does not live in that pantheon. She doesn't deserve to manage a Kansas Arby's let alone the entire country.
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:05AM
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday May 05 2015, @04:44PM
I was working in a Canadian EDS call center - pre-merger - on an HP contract when Carly was there. One of our most abnormally busy weeks (so not counting the week with Dec. 25th) could be, if my corporate masters were to be believed, traced to her corporate reorganizing. Essentially the inkjet printer department no longer had any communication with the ink cartridge department. Used to be that parts of the ink cart group worked with the fax and printer and such people so they could design carts that were asymmetrical and different (color wider than black) and hard to install wrong. After Carly's reforms, the ink cart department made the carts with minimal non-Carly input and the other departments had to change their HW to suit.
After the change, the ink cart guys started cranking out identical carts (with less ink per cart) and the printers started growing obnoxious little lids and hinges to try make the carts impossible to install wrong. Anyway, the first day a new Deskjet (5550?) came out we found out that the hinged lids weren't very good. They wouldn't lock if you put color in black and vice versa... but they were fine with installing the correct cartridge backwards. And their failure state for the "impossible" condition of "correct cartridge with no electrical contact" was to move the carriage to the cleaning position and lock it. So it never came out, unless you powered on the printer, waited until it was halfway through the startup noises, and yanked the power plug. During that fairly short window the mechanisms would let go of the carriage (and you had to cut power to stop it from RE-locking ten seconds later) and you could move it out manually to where you could change the carts. (The cleaning position was away from the paper path, so out of reach for standard maintenance.)
We got a lot of calls about that printer the first days it was on sale, and the earliest adopters had the pleasure of hearing good reps tell them to take it back to the store (against policy but kept call time down) or bad reps slowly figuring things out and walking them through it to get them printing.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:02PM
I imagine that would be true of anyone who's job was under review to be terminated.
Cost cutters are seldom popular.
Note: Not saying she helped HP all that much. They were bloated, unprofitable, and heading downward before she got there. They still have a habit of divesting themselves of huge chunks of their business. They are still doing this today. By that standard, she was ahead of her time.
See http://www.wsj.com/articles/hewlett-packard-to-split-into-two-companies-1412592132 [wsj.com]
I suspect she didn't hurt HP as much as most people think. And FTR, I doubt she would make a good president, and I doubt she will even get the nomination.
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