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Xerox's Ursula Burns Will Take Reins During 'Daunting' Time
May 21st, 2009 - Bloomberg
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Xerox Corp.’s Ursula Burns, who takesthe reins at the world’s largest high-speed color printer makerin less than six weeks, has a mandate: getting budget-cuttingcustomers to increase spending on office equipment. Burns.
Ursula Burns to succeed Mulcahy as Xerox CEO
May 21st, 2009 - Reuters
* Ursula Burns, president, named CEO as of July 1 * Anne Mulcahy to retire as CEO, remains chairman * Shares down 1.16 percent (Recasts, adds background, updates stock data) NEW YORK.

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RIT on TV News: Ursula Burns at Commencement
ABC World News reports on the commencement address delivered to graduates at Rochester Institute of Technology by Xerox president Ursula Burns as she begins her transition as the first African American woman to lead a fortune 500 company ...
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Ursula Burns - Small square parks
Ursula Burns, Belfast born singer songwriter grew up in a musical family and promptly ran away to join the circus in a vain attempt to escape the fate which awaited her - living as a musician in Northern Ireland. Akustisch / Alternativ. - www.myspace.com twitter.com www.facebook.com
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YWCA Inspirational Words by Xerox CEO Ursula Burns
Find out more at realbusinessatxerox.blogs.xerox.com At the YWCA Third Annual Empowering Women Luncheon, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns opens up about her childhood in an underprivileged home, recounting memories of her mother who instilled courage, character and the gift of values to her and her siblings ...

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Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) serves as CEO of Xerox. She is the first African-American woman CEO to head a S&P 100 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a S&P 100 company.

Burns was raised by a single mother in the Baruch Houses, a New York city housing project . She attended Cathedral High School, a Catholic, all-girls school on East 56th Street in New York. She then went on to obtain a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU in 1980 and a master of science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University a year later.

Burns first worked for Xerox in 1980 as a summer intern and joined a year later after her master's degree. She worked in various roles in product development and planning throughout her 20s.