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'''Cara Carleton''' "'''Carly'''" '''Fiorina''' (née '''Sneed'''; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as CEO of [[Hewlett-Packard]] (HP) and as Chair of the philanthropic organization Good360. She ran for the [[Republican Party]]'s nomination of [[President of the United States]] in 2016. In March 2016, Fiorina endorsed [[Ted Cruz]] for the nomination. On April 27, 2016, Cruz named Fiorina as his running mate. On May 3, 2016, Cruz dropped out of the race. On December 19, 2016, after Trump's victory in [[United States presidential election, 2016|the election]], the [[Electoral College]] convened; Fiorina received one electoral vote for [[Vice President of the United States]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-wins-enough-electoral-votes-to-become-president-1482187075|title=Donald Trump Wins Enough Electoral Votes to Become President|last=Tau|first=Byron|date=2016-12-20|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2017-05-17|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
'''Cara Carleton''' "'''Carly'''" '''Fiorina''' (née '''Sneed'''; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as CEO of [[Hewlett-Packard]] (HP) and as Chair of the philanthropic organization Good360. She ran for the [[Republican Party]]'s nomination of [[President of the United States]] in 2016.
As [[Chief Executive Officer]] of [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] from 1999 to 2005, Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Top-20 company as ranked by ''[[Fortune 500|Fortune]]'' Magazine.<ref name=Sellers09>{{cite news|last1=Sellers|first1=Patricia|title=Behind Fortune's Most Powerful Women|url=http://fortune.com/2009/03/23/behind-fortunes-most-powerful-women/|accessdate=April 1, 2015|work=Fortune|date=March 23, 2009}}</ref> In 2002, Fiorina oversaw what was then the largest technology sector merger in history, in which HP acquired rival [[personal computer]] manufacturer, [[Compaq]]. The transaction made HP the world's largest seller of personal computers.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The H-P/Compaq Union, From Controversy to Success|url = http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/08/16/the-h-pcompaq-union-from-controversy-to-success/ |website = WSJ Blogs – Deal Journal |date = 2007-08-16|accessdate = 2015-10-08|first = Stephen|last = Grocer}}</ref><ref>Bagley, Constance. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WjVBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA599&lpg=PA599 Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century]'', p. 599 (Cengage Learning 2015).</ref> HP subsequently laid off 30,000 U.S. employees in order to save 80,000 jobs.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Carly Fiorina: Secretary to CEO|url = http://www.FromSecretarytoCEO.com |website = Carly Fiorina: Secretary to CEO| accessdate = 2016-01-06}}</ref><ref name=Farley/><ref name="Goldman">Goldman, David. [http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/21/technology/fiorina-layoffs/ "Behind Carly Fiorina's 30,000 HP layoffs"], [[CNN]] (September 21, 2015): "She has also noted – correctly — that despite bruising layoffs, she hired more people than she fired. HP and Compaq had a combined 148,100 employees just before she was hired in 1999, and 150,000 by the time she was fired in 2005."</ref> In February 2005, she was forced to resign as CEO and Chair, following a boardroom disagreement.<ref name=stanford/><ref name=PuiWing/><ref name=Burrows/>
In March 2016, Fiorina endorsed [[Ted Cruz]] for the nomination. On April 27, 2016, Cruz named Fiorina as his running mate. On May 3, 2016, Cruz dropped out of the race. On December 19, 2016, after Trump's victory in [[United States presidential election, 2016|the election]], the [[Electoral College]] convened; Fiorina received one electoral vote for [[Vice President of the United States]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-wins-enough-electoral-votes-to-become-president-1482187075|title=Donald Trump Wins Enough Electoral Votes to Become President|last=Tau|first=Byron|date=2016-12-20|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2017-05-17|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
==Early life==
==Early life==