5 posts and columns on Ursula Burns

Yahoo’s Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune’s Powerful Women List, While HP’s Whitman Gets Hired

in Media on September 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.
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Tech Executives: Schools, Immigration Key to Innovation

in News on January 7, 2011 at 2:58 pm PT

The U.S. needs to fix its primary education system, encourage talented immigrants and cut business taxes if it wants to maintain it lead in innovation, several top tech executives said Friday. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Xerox Corp. Chief Executive Ursula Burns gave the K-12 school system a “D-minus” and said fixing it is a priority.

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Xerox Takes Gamble in Bid for ACS

in News on September 29, 2009 at 11:41 am PT

Xerox Corp. and its new chief executive, Ursula Burns, unveiled the biggest acquisition in the company’s 103-year history, joining a wave of hardware makers expanding into services with a $5.6 billion deal for Affiliated Computer Services Inc.

Yahoo's Bartz (No. 8), Facebook's Sandberg (No. 22), Google's Mayer (No. 44) and More Techies Make Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women List

in News on September 11, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
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