Ursula Burns' New Memoir Chronicles Her Journey From New York Tenements To Xerox CEO
Burns began at Xerox as an intern and worked her way up through the ranks for almost three decades before being named CEO.
Jun 16, 2021
4 minutes
When Ursula Burns was named the CEO of Xerox in 2009, her promotion was hailed as a groundbreaking achievement: Burns was the first Black woman to head a Fortune 500 company.
She took over Xerox at a critical time when the country was just coming out of the 2008 recession. And as Burns writes in her new memoir, she began as an intern and worked her way up over three decades.
Along the way, Burns was fortified by the wisdom of many mentors including her mother, who inspired the title “.” Her mother — a first-generation immigrant, single parent and welfare recipient — always believed Burns would be
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