Carol Bartz

...but remains a board member and "chief Yahoo" at the company. Since then, Bartz negotiated a search partnership with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft. Yahoo and Microsoft both compete with Mountain View Internet...

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...pioneering brands. She ticked off the questions her friends asked her when she made the decision to come out of retirement (she was CEO of Autodesk (ADSK) for 14 years) to take the helm at struggling Yahoo. There's going to be a PC...

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...down Microsoft's initial offers to buy the firm last year. Bartz joined Yahoo in January from Autodesk and immediately set about putting her stamp on the troubled company. Now, some nine months later, in a congenial CNBC Squawkbox...

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...into her first board meeting there as president. Bartz built Autodesk into a billion-dollar company--all while making it one of the most enlightened workplaces in American industry. And she's fun. That's why she would not only make any...

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...to cover a tax bill due from the options she was granted. Bartz's dispositions in March and June were related to the vesting of a restricted stock award she received in January. That restricted stock award was part of the "Make-Up Grant"...

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...the former chief of Autodesk, faces tremendous pressure. With the Microsoft search deal behind her, she needs to show investors that she can quickly shore up the top and bottom lines. An engineer by training, Ursula Burns (No. 14), was...

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...blocked it. Yang got the boot, and Yahoo brought in Carol Bartz, a tough talker from Autodesk whose biggest strong point may be simply that she lacks Yang's emotional baggage about the company, and she made the deal happen. The deal is...

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...and Restricted Stock Units (basically Yahoo! shares) in blocks each quarter for her first year (2009) on the job to make her whole for the Autodesk stock she left on the table to take the Yahoo! CEO job. No one has ever explained why...

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