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Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns has been named chairwoman of Teneo, the embattled consulting firm that is still dealing with the fallout from the resignation of its CEO, reportedly over drunken ...
Ursula Burns is the first black woman to helm a Fortune 500 company, the former CEO of Xerox, and now the chairwoman of the powerful strategic advisory firm Teneo. She’s also an old crony of ...
From The NY Times - By all accounts, Ursula Burns, 51, has never been shy about speaking her mind. It's how she wound up working alongside Xerox's top leaders at an early age... Orlando, Fla.
Her name was Ursula Burns. At the time, Mrs. Burns was serving her first year as CEO of Xerox. She was the first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, and after I read her from ...
In 2009, Ursula Burns shattered the metaphorical glass ceiling two-fold when she became “the first African American woman to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company and the first female to acceded ...
She’s Uber's newest board member. Ursula Burns, Xerox Corporation Chairwoman and CEO, speaks at The New York Times New Work Summit on March 1, 2016, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Kimberly White/Getty ...
AS A COLLEGE INTERN AT XEROX in 1980, Ursula Burns didn’t walk the halls assuming she would run the whole joint one day. Yet less than three decades later, she did just that, becoming CEO in ...
Ursula Burns made history as the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. Her journey from a tough childhood in public housing to the top of ...
I spoke to Ursula Burns earlier this month about all she’s up to since she retired as a top executive. The former Xerox chief was the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Ursula Burns, the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company, says she climbed the career ladder with a simple strategy: relentlessly taking advantage of every opportunity thrown her way at ...
Great leaders aren't just confident and decisive — they also habitually lean on others, according to former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns. Burns — who became the first Black female CEO of a Fortune ...
When Ursula Burns became the CEO of Xerox in 2009, she didn’t consider it a milestone achievement; then, she began receiving calls from Magic Johnson, Al Sharpton, and others. It wasn’t long ...