Endeavor's board includes CEO Ari Emanuel, executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, Silver Lake chief Egon Durban (who is also chair of the board), Uncle Nearest CEO Fawn Weaver, and Tesla and SpaceX ...

In 2009, Ursula Burns shattered the metaphorical glass ceiling two-fold when she became “the first African American woman to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company and the first female to acceded to ...

Ursula Burns thinks there's a problem with how we talk about lifting people out of poverty and helping them achieve the American Dream. "[The rhetoric today] is, 'If you don't have, you don't deserve ...

Ursula Burns is the first black woman to helm a Fortune 500 company, the former CEO of Xerox, and now the chairwoman of the powerful strategic advisory firm Teneo. She’s also an old crony of Declan ...

Did you know the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company started there as an intern? Her name is Ursula Burns. Burns, 64, was once told she had three strikes against her: that she was Black, a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Unbelievable as it might seem, it took until 2009 for the first Black woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company. It happened when ...

Black directors have held only 1 percent of board seats at private companies backed by top venture capital and private equity firms. By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Stephen Gandel ...

Retiring Veon chairman Ursula Burns, the last black woman to have served at the helm of a Fortune 500 company, is fed up with companies making excuses for failing to hire more black executives. Burns ...

When Ursula Burns became the CEO of Xerox in 2009, she didn’t consider it a milestone achievement; then, she began receiving calls from Magic Johnson, Al Sharpton, and others. It wasn’t long before ...

Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. is adding Ursula Burns, former chair and CEO of Xerox Corp and VEON Ltd., to its Board of Directors, Endeavor announced on Monday. The newly public company will now have ...

When Ursula Burns became the CEO of Xerox in 2009, she didn’t consider it a milestone achievement; then, she began receiving calls from Magic Johnson, Al Sharpton, and others. It wasn’t long before ...