The annual list includes two African American female CEOs for the first time—Rosalind Brewer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA.
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The annual list, which ranks America's largest companies, also made history as two African American female CEOs made the list for the first time -- Rosalind Brewer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA.Roz Brewer speaks during the TV One's 3rd Annual Urban One Honors, which aired on TV One and Cleo TV, May 16, 2021.Thasunda Duckett attends the Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in Dana Point, Calif., Oct. 2, 2018.
"You can't run the company until you get some broader set of experiences," said Burns, crediting her engineering degree for helping her perform a number of different roles within Xerox before becoming CEO.
"Breadth of different experiences is really important ... all of my jobs have been core-line jobs, meaning core to creating the value that is essential to a company. So core to designing, making, moving, selling what we do, and that is really, really important is if you want the top job -- your experiences can't be peripheral," Sygnal told Jarvis.
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