Carly Fiorina
Age: 46
Previous Rank: N/A
Title: Chairman and CEO
Company: Hewlett-Packard Company HWP
3000 Hanover St.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Telephone: 650-857-1501
Website: http://www.hp.com
She's reinventing HP--killing fiefdoms, overturning traditions, and putting a
face (her own) on a company with a faded identity. Her leadership mantra:
"Challenge the mind and capture the heart." Her score: The stock
run-up has stalled, but observers like Cisco's John Chambers and Oracle's Larry
Ellison say Fiorina is doing a great job.
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Debby Hopkins
Age: 45
Previous Rank: N/A
Title: EVP and CFO
Company: Lucent Technologies LU
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Telephone: 908-582-8500
Website: http://www.lucent.com
Hurricane Debby, as some who've felt her force call her, strikes fast and hard.
Last year she blew apart stodgy Boeing and lifted the stock price. Then she
stormed Lucent, whose shares have sunk to a two-year low. Good thing the lady
loves trouble. Says her former boss, Boeing CEO Phil Condit, who sits on the HP
board: "She could be the next Carly Fiorina."
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Meg Whitman
Age: 44
Previous Rank: N/A
Title: President and CEO
Company: eBay EBAY
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
Telephone: 408-558-7400
Website: http://www.ebay.com
Although eBay's stock is in a dot-com downturn, Whitman's company defies the
Internet odds: It makes money--it has from the beginning--and she's never missed
her targets. Talk about influence: She changed the way people buy and sell, and
launched a consumer revolution. In 1999, $2.8 billion worth of goods were sold
through eBay, and in the first half of 2000, $2.5 billion worth were auctioned.
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Donna Dubinsky
Age: 45
Previous Rank: N/A
Title: President and CEO
Company: Handspring
HAND
189 Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-230-5000
Website: N/A
The mother of the handheld computer, she co-founded both Palm and Handspring,
the market leader's sprightly new competitor. She's a major wealth creator: The
two companies' stock market values add up to $37 billion. She's also a
revolutionary. Claiming that PDAs will outsell PCs someday, Dubinsky says,
"Our mission, tritely, is to change the world."
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Ellen Hancock
Age: 57
Previous Rank: N/A
Title: Chairman and CEO
Company: Exodus Communications EXDS
2831 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Telephone: 408-346-2200
Website: http://www.exodus.net
Survivor! Fired first by Lou Gerstner at IBM and then by Steve Jobs at Apple,
Hancock has pushed on to success. She's pumped up Exodus' stock and built its
market value to $25 billion.
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