Back when she was a Stanford University undergrad, Hewlett-Packard president and chief executive officer Carleton "Carly" Fiorina worked as an HP temp shipping clerk. After graduation, she quickly moved on to bigger and better things, rising from AT&T account rep to lead Lucent Technologies' spinoff from the Bell mother ship. Her subsequent success as head of Lucent's Global Service Provider Business helped enable Fiorina to beat out a strong pack of rivals to win the top HP spot a year ago.

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