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...business, but she didn't see herself that way. "I don't think of myself, nor do I appreciate being characterized, as a woman CEO," she told TIME in 2002. But she was one of just eight female CEOs of a FORTUNE 500 company, and so her performance at HP drew keen attention. As it turns out, Fiorina took the same risks as her male counterparts, made the same mistakes--and met the same fate. "This is not about gender. It's really about business," says Deborah Soon of Catalyst, a nonprofit group promoting women in business. She points...
...consummate celebrity CEO--right up until her final moment. Just a few weeks ago, the Hewlett-Packard board rapped her on the wrist for the company's dismal performance and ordered her to give some control of HP's four key divisions to line executives. Outwardly, her ever-confident manner gave no hint of the humiliating demotion, even after the reorganization leaked to the press. But charisma and confidence can go only so far. On Feb. 6, board members held an emergency meeting at an O'Hare Airport hotel. The next day they asked her to step down...
...wireless communication. But competition is intense, especially in photo printing, which is still where the money is. In film, Kodak had only two major competitors, Fuji Photo Film in Asia and Agfa-Gevaert in Europe. Now, both its old foes are in the printing market, as is the giant HP. And Sony and Canon aside, there are at least a dozen firms making digital cameras...
...will bigger be better? Unlike the mates in the HP-Compaq and AOL--Time Warner deals, both partners here are marrying from positions of strength. P&G, for one, has had several recent hits, like Crest Whitestrips and Swiffer cleaning products, and Wall Street loves Lafley for increasing operating income and turbocharging the growth of brands like Iams pet food (another acquisition). On the other hand, P&G has never absorbed a company as large as Gillette, with its 30,000 employees, and the price it's paying is steep. "We are skeptical that simply going from $55 billion...
...clean signal and long battery life. The kit will be available this spring for $150, possibly along with a universal wireless kit for other MP3 players. Motorola and Toshiba are both launching wireless wraparound headphones that use Bluetooth wireless networking to connect to laptops and cell phones, and HP recently introduced a similar pair, primarily for use with its iPaq PDAs. When MP3 players eventually add Bluetooth connectivity to their features, partnering them with one of these headsets will be easy. In the meantime, Belkin will offer TuneStage, a Bluetooth adapter for late-model iPods, which runs on the iPod...