By Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary December 15, 2015 By the late 1990s, Hewlett-Packard was in trouble. They had gone from a tech giant to a stagnant bureaucracy that lacked vision. HP was not meeting profit expectations at the height of the tech bubble, when its competitors were growing by leaps and..
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Did You Know…The Compaq Merger Wasn’t the Only Big, Profitable Deal Carly Negotiated at HP
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary December 11, 2015 If we are going to get America back in the leadership business again, we need our next commander in chief to be a proven negotiator – and nobody is a better negotiator that Carly Fiorina. While most people have heard about the HP-Compaq..
Did You Know…Carly Has a Proven Track Record of Fixing Burdensome Bureaucracies Like We See at the Department of Veterans Affairs
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary December 9, 2015 If there is one thing that people on both sides of the aisle can agree on, it’s that federal bureaucracy has wrapped up our government in so much red tape it has become almost unmanageable. The worst example of this can be found..
Did You Know…Carly Fought to Protect Privacy Rights of American E-Commerce Consumers
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary December 7, 2015 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, e-commerce was still in its infancy and there were no established rules for protecting American consumers. While most other tech CEO’s dithered on the issue, Carly Fiorina took the initiative to lead an effort to protect..
Carly’s Former Co-Workers: In Their Own Words
By Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary UPDATED: December 4, 2015 Carly Fiorina has an impressive resume, working her way up from a secretary in a small, nine-person real estate firm to the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world. And while Hillary Clinton and her Democrat allies at the..
Did You Know…Carly Served as the Head of Two Global Nonprofits
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary December 1, 2015 As we face global threats from terrorist organizations like ISIS and al Qaeda, it is imperative that we have a Commander-in-Chief who not only has national security experience but who also truly understands the global economy – and that person is Carly Fiorina. ..
Did You Know…Black Friday Edition
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary November 27, 2015 As Americans across the country head out the door to start their Christmas shopping, there is an interesting Christmas-related fact identified by Economist Thomas Friedman in his book The World Is Flat that gives you an idea of just how massive HP was..
Did You Know…Carly Has Real World First-Hand Experience with the Global Economy
By: Team CARLY November 25, 2015 Under Carly’s leadership, HP grew from operating in 120 countries in 1999 to operating in 170 countries in 2005. Many of these countries that HP expanded into were developing regions, like Africa, that other major technology companies largely ignored. But Carly understood that HP needed to get into business in..
Did You Know…Carly Has Received Lots of Praise for Her Foreign Policy Experience
By: Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary November 24, 2015 Last week, Carly joined guest host Kimberly Guilfoyle on On the Record to discuss her extensive foreign policy experience. Carly Fiorina: “Well first I’ve done business and charity and policy work around the world for decades. I mean I have been in the..
Did You Know…Carly Has Some Serious Foreign Policy Credentials
By Leslie Shedd, CARLY for America National Press Secretary November 23, 2015 Most people know that Carly’s impressive business career has given her some serious real world executive and economic experience. But her time as the Chairman of the External Advisory Board has also given Carly some serious foreign policy experience. With terror groups like..