The Economist Asks: Ursula Burns
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Is it time for diversity quotas? Ursula Burns, the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, tells The Economistβs editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes why she thinks businesses will not diversify without quotas. The former CEO of Xerox also argues that business leaders have the edge over presidents when it comes to closing the skills gap and explains why she became an engineer rather than a nun.
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