Ursula Burns on the roles that confidence, risk-taking and the joy of crushing her adversaries played in her trajectory from intern to chief executive.

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 ...

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 ...

Work-life balance and women in the workplace have become a hot topic after Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, a book on the subject, and Marissa Mayer controversially recalled Yahoo's remote ...

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 ...

Burns has moved Xerox away from printing hardware and toward business services since she became CEO in 2009. Though Xerox's revenue continues to fall--down 2.5%, to $21.8 billion, in 2013 ...

— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. She ...