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Executive Business Briefing Jul 08, 2002
I can imagine that Steve Poizner would like me to get out of the race, and it's not happening
Calif. gov candidate's vote record chided Sep 27, 2009
After nine years of faithful service, Nicky came to us in June 2009 and confessed that she was an illegal worker
Whitman says fired maid lied about status Sep 29, 2010
We love having Gloria Allred as a foil because people know she's everything they hate about the legal system
Whitman says she would take polygraph test Oct 01, 2010
The fact you are defending your campaign for a slur and a personal attack on me, I think it's not befitting of California, it's not befitting of the office that you're running for
Brown, Whitman spar in final debate Oct 13, 2010
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American businesswoman. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her ten years with the company she oversaw expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue when she stepped down.
In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California, becoming the third woman in a twenty year period to run for the office. She won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, she spent more of her own money on her candidacy than any other self-funded political candidate in U.S. history, spending roughly $50 per vote she received, or about $160 million total. Whitman lost to Jerry Brown in the November 2 election.
Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, the daughter of Hendricks Hallett Whitman and Margaret (née Goodhue) Whitman. She attended Cold Spring Harbor High School in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, graduating after only three years in 1974. She was in the top ten of her class. She had wanted to be a doctor, so she studied physics and mathematics at Princeton University. However, after spending a summer selling advertisements for a magazine, she switched to studying economics, earning a BA with honors in 1977. Whitman then obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979.