Video: Ursula M. Burns, Kate Gleason Award, 2014
Video: Ursula M. Burns, Kate Gleason Award, 2014
Ursula M. Burns received the Kate Gleason Award for outstanding engineering and business leadership, and for a distinguished career culminating in being the first black woman to lead a major U.S. corporation.
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