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Ursula Burns on the fight for racial justice in corporate America: ‘We have to fundamentally change institutions’ Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY © CLAUDIO MARINESCO Ursula Burns In 2009, Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company. When she stepped down in 2016, there were no other Black women in the role. Today, there are two. Burns, who sits on the boards of Exxon, Uber and MIT, isnt willing to wait another few decades for more diversity at the top...

An Amazon packaging and distribution centre landing on London’s doorstep would be an immediate windfall for the local economy, retail industry observers say.

The shopping war that Amazon is losing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Shira Ovide Normal text size Advertisement Amazon has been so successful in the last year that words almost fail me. Except in one area. Sales at Amazon’s stores, mostly from its Whole Foods grocery chain, fell by 15 per cent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period in 2020. Those sales have now been declining for a year. Amazon bought out...

Lockdown blues SUBSCRIBE Well soon meet in your inbox. / Morning Dispatch Harsh lockdowns have brought e-commerce to a halt in some states, which means that while overall demand for online shopping is still up, it isn’t close to matching last year’s growth. Also in today’s letter: India’s national Unicorn week State of the e-commerce nation Regional lockdowns have hampered e-commerce sales in some states and boosted them in others. And while overall demand has grown, it hasn’t surg...

What Amazon’s Alabama union vote means for the company and workers Photo: Reuters Roque Ruiz, , The Wall Street Journal Share Via Read Full Story If workers at an Amazon.com facility in Bessemer, Ala., vote to unionize, it would boost the number of workers who have opted to join a union in a state that has membership rates below the U.S. average. But the vote, the counting of which began March 30, is also being closely watched for other reasons—among them Amazon’s position as the second...