Ursula Burns在自传提到相当多，她在2000年Xerox需要把制造整个委托给纬创力(Flextronics)过程，跟Xerox工会谈判的经验，最后能与工会达成共识，没有闹出罢工事件，她归功于女性谈判的特质。当上CEO之前，还必须取得政府的背景调查，这主要是Xerox有帮政府开发很多产品，比如可以每30秒就消除纪录的硬盘，空军一号、潜水艇...
Ursula M. Burns isn't one to savor victory- even if it's being the first African American woman to lead a major U.S. corporation and the first female CEO to take the reins from another woman. Within days of being named chief executive of Xerox she was on a plane to Europe. The ...
Ursula Burns, who started as an intern at Xerox Corp., eventually rose through the ranks to become the first African-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. During a talk at Catalyst's annual awards conference on Tuesday, the 54-year-old CEO recounted how her mother, who raised Burn...
An interview is presented with Ursula Burns, the chief executive officer of the office equipment company Xerox Corp. Topics include labor costs, technological innovation, and Xerox's expansion from the copier business into providing services including customer service call centers. Burns predicts that ...
Yesterday on Postcards we wrote about an historic event: Xerox (XRX) CEO Anne Mulcahy announced she will pass the baton to president Ursula Burns on the first of July in the first ever woman-to-woman transfer of the CEO role in the Fortune 500. Burns will also be the first African-Amer...
美国(United States)跨国公司施乐(Xerox)前任掌舵人安妮·穆尔卡希(Anne Mulcahy)于2009年7月1日宣布把其指挥棒传给乌苏拉·伯恩斯(Ursula Burns),这是财富500强企业之中首次出现新旧首席执行员都是女性的情况,而现年58岁的伯恩斯还成为了首位领导500强企业的非裔女性。她同时也是2015年福布斯全球权势女性榜第29位。
We asked three prominent business leaders —Jeffrey Immelt, Ursula Burns, andJohn Donahoe— which companies they hold in high esteem, and why. For Burns, CEO of Xerox, doing good is good business. She spoke with editor-at-largePatricia Sellersabout what that means for some of theWorld’s Mo...
Burns first worked at Xerox Corporation as a summer intern in 1980. Through the years, she has worked her way up the corporate ladder to become the company's Chair, and Chief Executive Officer. She became CEO in 2009, and during her tenure she transformed the company from a primarily copy...
Anne Mulcahy took over as CEO, and Burns was promoted to first president of Xerox's Business Group Operations, becoming the first woman to hold that position. Burns was responsible for the engineering center and five separate divisions; together her group brought in 80 percent of Xerox's ...
Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns says she balanced work and family by "outsourcing the caring for my kids." Here's what that means, and how it panned out for her.