Carol A. Bartz was the CEO at Auto Desk from 1992 until 2006. According to Forbes, “Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders.” She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk’s “3F” or “fail-fast forward” concept — the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly. It is reported that she is under strong consideration to replace Jerry Yang as the CEO of Yahoo Inc. On January 13th, 2009, the Wall Street Journal announced that Carol Bartz had accepted an offer to be the next CEO of Yahoo, succeeding outgoing CEO & co-founder Jerry Yang.

Bartz received a BA in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.

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