Word: bartz
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...media has become fascinated with Yahoo again over the last few weeks as it finally found a new CEO to run the company in the place of founder Jerry Yang who was part of the Microsoft foul-up. Carol Bartz was the head of Autodesk (ADSK) from 1992 to 2006. She deserves whatever credit she got for improving Autodesk's fortunes. The stock soared over the period that she ran the company. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...Bartz knows all of this. She also knows that putting all of the pieces together is a long shot. But it is not impossible, and strong management has fixed tougher problems at other companies...
...picking low-hanging fruit to say that Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO), can't fix the portal company - its shares went down about 3% on news of the selection. Bartz had a good reputation at Autodesk, the other firm she ran. But Yahoo! is an Internet company, and Bartz is not an Internet executive...