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 ...

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 ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

One of these executives was Ursula Burns, Mulcahy's successor and current CEO, who became the first African-American female chief executive of a Fortune 500 company when she was tapped for the ...

Nearly two years after taking over as the CEO of Xerox, Ursula Burns is enjoying her coming-out party with the IT channel. Consider these recent events: its first big partner conference in four ...

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 ...

Burns has successfully transformed the printing company: Over half its $22 billion in revenue comes from services such as customer care and IT outsourcing. But Xerox's traditional docu-ment ...