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Fiorina has quieted some of those she calls her "cynics and doubters," who had whispered that a woman with a marketing background was not fit to run HP. But she still faces formidable challenges, starting with generating profits in PCs and corporate "enterprise systems" at her newly merged company, which posted $35 billion in revenues in its first six months. Can she go from being a Churchillian leader, adept at giving a "We will never surrender" speech, to being more of a Lou Gerstner, IBM's former CEO, who was able not only to slash costs and jettison unpromising lines...
...joined GE in 1978 and soon went to the Aircraft Engines division. It was a great fit. Her father was a navigator, and one of her brothers is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She credits her parents with encouraging her love of math and science. Growing up with a sister and three brothers in Worcester, Mass., also prepared her for GE's famously intense managers. "My brothers would push me hard, Mellor says. "I had to hold...
...railing against the orthodoxy of multiculturalism that refused to pass judgment on practices she unapologetically labeled “backward.” Alis is not affiliated with a right-wing party and the Dutch are famously tolerant people who put up with everything. Neither Alis nor her country fit the usual profile of claustrophobic bigots. The better-known politician Pim Fortuyn built an entire movement out of assaulting the medieval attitudes about gays and women held by some immigrant Muslims...
...Miss World pageant. Its large and influential Islamic population, much of which lives under Islamic Law, considers the public exhibition of women to be an obscenity. But despite the offensive and insulting effects of the pageant, the Miss World organizers were set on holding it in Nigeria because it fit their agenda...
Professor of English and American Literature and Language Elisa New, who is also a member of the Committee on Study Out of Residence, says that many departments now have an “overall readiness” to discuss changing the way study abroad will fit with other aspects of their concentrations...