Carol Bartz went nuts on the Yahoo board in an exclusive Fortune interview, saying they "f**ked [her] over" and were "doofuses." She suggested they were right to be called the "worst board in America.

Carol Bartz once told the New York Times that "people should understand that they will learn more from a bad manager than a good manager." With her firing earlier this week, it's clear Bartz made some ...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on Tuesday gave no indication that the company was going to punt on the search business. She said the data the search business provides is "extremely important" to Yahoo and is ...

At least one reason Yahoo fired its CEO Carol Bartz on Tuesday, according to a report in today’s The Wall Street Journal, was her “abrasive CEO style, including her frequent use of swear words.” That ...

Given that so few women hold positions of power, when a high-profile woman like Carol Bartz loses her role as CEO of a huge company, thoughts of sexism creep into the conversation. "It's global ...

Carol Bartz was fired as CEO by Yahoo's Board last week. Fearing their decision might leak, the Chairman called Ms. Bartz and unceremoniously fired her over the phone. Expeditious, but not too tactful ...

When Carol Bartz swept into the chief executive's suite at tech firm Autodesk in 1992, she took over a classic, chaotic engineers' paradise. Employees disdained project deadlines and performance ...

Sure, selling software is different from selling ads. But Yahoo has more need for fresh eyes and new leadership than for media expertise. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

It's hard to decide what to think of Carol Bartz, the turnaround chief at Yahoo (YHOO). On one hand, her blunt demeanor provides endless entertainment in a sea of business execs too polished by media ...