Interview Work & Careers

"It was like playing with the last cards in your hand"

Name: "It was like playing with the last cards in your hand"
Uploaded: 2018-03-11T13:00:33.393Z
Duration: 10 min 31 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns on facing intense pressure

Ursula Burns made history when she became the first African-American woman to run a Fortune 500 company – Xerox. In the second FT series of Leaders Under Pressure, Andrew Hill asks her how she dealt with a challenge from activist investor Carl Icahn.

March 11, 2018

Executive Producer and Editor: Vanessa Kortekaas. Video editor: Richard Topping. Camera Operators: Richard Topping and James Sandy. Still images: Getty, Bloomberg and Xerox Corporation.