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Some companies are adopting more sophisticated formulas that peg CEO compensation to benchmarks other than the stock price in a bid to align pay more closely with performance. During each of the next three years, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina can accrue up to 150% of a nearly $2 million cash award if she meets certain criteria for operating cash flow. But she will collect the full amount only if at the end of the three years HP stock has outperformed at least half the companies in the S&P 500. IBM is now granting its top 300 senior executives...
...CARLY FIORINA by Marjorie Scardino...
...businesspeople and investors, she's a household name. That might be because Carly Fiorina turns the wheel at one of the icons of the technology era, Hewlett-Packard. It might be because she's a compelling speaker and an imaginative marketer. It might be because she is one of only eight women leading a FORTUNE 500 company. But as the person who engineered the $19 billion merger with Compaq--and fought off a shareholder challenge--she was guaranteed star status...
...When Fiorina took over HP, it had known decades of success, and still credited its legendary "HP Way" culture for much of it. But its recent performance was pale, and its future unsure. So Fiorina adapted the HP way to her way. Taking "Invent!" as the rallying cry, she invented a new future. The board, which had recruited her, was ready to back her; but a family-led shareholder battle required Fiorina to have the courage to collide with history and high emotions. She emerged stronger, and so far so has the company. Producing $3.5 billion of merger savings after...
Before she was indicted last summer, Stewart handed the reins to Citigate Sard Verbinnen, the crisis-management firm that Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina used to help win a brutal proxy battle to take over Compaq. Once Citigate took the helm, Stewart starting getting her message out with careful prime-time interviews and the Internet. Within hours of her indictment, Citigate launched marthatalks.com which posts notes from well-wishers and upbeat messages from Stewart. The site has received more than 16 million hits and 81,000 e-mails...