乌苏拉?M?伯恩斯

公司：施乐

《财富》500强排名：127

????2009年，乌苏拉?伯恩斯接替安妮?穆尔卡希，成为施乐公司（Xerox）CEO，创造了历史。她成为《财富》500强公司中首位非洲裔美国人女性CEO，而且这种权力交接也是首次在两位女性CEO之间进行。她一直脚踏实地，坚持做真实的自己。去年五月，伯恩斯在接受《财富》杂志高级编辑佩蒂?塞勒斯采访时说：“确定我将继任施乐公司CEO时，安妮?穆尔卡希跟我说：‘你将面临很多困难，但不要走我的老路。’这是我从她那里学到的东西之一。你可以一辈子都跟随别人的脚步，亦步亦趋，但那样的话就无法实现超越，领导他人。”

Ursula M. Burns

Company: Xerox

Fortune 500 rank: 127

????Xerox CEO Ursula Burns made history in 2009. Succeeding Anne Mulcahy, Burns was the first African-American female CEO -- and the first recipient of a woman-to-woman handoff -- in the Fortune 500. She stays grounded by staying true to herself. "When it became clear that I would become the CEO of Xerox, Anne Mulcahy said to me, 'It's going to be hard for you anyway, but don't try and be me. You can't try to be me,'" Burns told Fortune editor-at-large Pattie Sellers last May. "And that's one of the things I learned. You can probably be somebody else and follow all your life, but you cannot be somebody else and lead."