Memoir Puts Former Hp Chief Fiorina On Comeback Trail; One of Business's Most Powerful Women Optimistic As Career Choices Beckon

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Carly Fiorina's career has followed an uncannily cinematic arc.

A restless law school dropout becomes a master sales rep for Ma Bell, then rises higher in business than any other woman, running Hewlett-Packard Co. for six years. She wrestles that stodgy Silicon Valley institution into the Internet age, needing every ounce of her charm to win a huge merger contest.

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Memoir Puts Former Hp Chief Fiorina On Comeback Trail; One of Business's Most Powerful Women Optimistic As Career Choices Beckon

But her style inflames critics. After her financial results fall short, she is unceremoniously canned.

So if this were a movie, what would happen next?

That's right: Get ready for Fiorina's comeback.

In her memoir emerging this week, "Tough Choices," Fiorina will contend that she was unfairly scrutinized as a woman in business and unproductively opposed by people who feared the big changes she had to ...

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