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Carly Fiorina has breast cancer
March 3, 2009: 3:55 PM ETCarly Fiorina topped Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for seven years, from its launch in 1998 (when she was heading the biggest division at Lucent Technologies) until 2004, shortly before she was fired from the CEO position at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). The news broke today that Fiorina, 54, was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 20 and underwent surgery yesterday at Stanford Hospital.
The buzz around Washington and California lately is that she has been gearing up to run for the U.S. Senate, to vie for Barbara Boxer's seat in 2010. We at Fortune have come to know Fiorina well over the years. We know what a fighter she is, and we wish her a full and fast recovery.
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Power Point: Women rise to the top
"Anytime you have a fiercely competitive, change-oriented growth business where results count and merit matters, women will rise to the top."
- Carly Fiorina said this 10 years ago this week, when I interviewed her for the very first Fortune Most Powerful Women in Businesss issue. Then a senior exec at Lucent, Fiorina was virtually unknown outside the telecom industry. In fact, she had had only one profile written about her, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 1, 2008 12:49 PM ETPosted in: Carly Fiorina, CEOs, Compaq, diversity, FORTUNE MPWomen, gender, Heidi Miller, Hewlett-Packard, John McCain, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, list, Lucent, management, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, OPrah Winfrey, Postcards, Power Point, Power Shift, Shelly Lazarus, Sherry Lansing, Tough Choices
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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