Who Is The Ultimate Business and Technology Game Changer?

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under the radar, are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it. We salute them for their willingness to take risks and question the status quo.

Below, check out the nominees for HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers in Business and Tech.

Voting for the Ultimate Business and Technology Game Changer is now closed. Thank you for your participation!

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Ursula Burns

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Changed the game by: Identifying a need for change in her company and effectively executing her new vision. If you still think of the corner copier when you think of Xerox, Ursula Burns would like a word with you. Just months into her CEO tenure, the Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation saw the need for innovation at Xerox and made a $6.4 billion bet to acquire a computer outsourcing and business processing company ACS (Affiliated Computer Services), exponentially expanding the size, scope and focus of Xerox. Now in 2011, approximately 50% of its $23 billion in revenue comes from services in unexpected industries. 50% of all electronic toll collection in the U.S. is processed by Xerox, and the company handles over 1 million call center transactions daily. Her business savvy has taken Xerox in new directions, but Burns remains a company girl at heart. She first joined the global corporation in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. In April 2007, Burns was named president of Xerox, and then CEO in July 2009, then chairman of the company on May 20, 2010. Extracurriculars:In 2010, President Obama appointed Burns to be the Vice Chair of the President's Export Council, where she advocated for "more progressive free and fair trade initiatives with an end result that protects and adds more American jobs." Must-click: Burns discusses the importance of education to foster young scientists and engineers (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

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Changed the game by: Identifying a need for change in her company and effectively executing her new vision.

If you still think of the corner copier when you think of Xerox, Ursula Burns would like a word with you. Just months into her CEO tenure, the Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation saw the need for innovation at Xerox and made a $6.4 billion bet to acquire a computer outsourcing and business processing company ACS (Affiliated Computer Services), exponentially expanding the size, scope and focus of Xerox. Now in 2011, approximately 50% of its $23 billion in revenue comes from services in unexpected industries. 50% of all electronic toll collection in the U.S. is processed by Xerox, and the company handles over 1 million call center transactions daily. Her business savvy has taken Xerox in new directions, but Burns remains a company girl at heart. She first joined the global corporation in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. In April 2007, Burns was named president of Xerox, and then CEO in July 2009, then chairman of the company on May 20, 2010.

Extracurriculars:In 2010, President Obama appointed Burns to be the Vice Chair of the President's Export Council, where she advocated for "more progressive free and fair trade initiatives with an end result that protects and adds more American jobs."

Must-click: Burns discusses the importance of education to foster young scientists and engineers

(Photo Credit: Getty Images)

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[Mr Hoodoo]

02:00 PM on 10/22/2011

Huh.

A filthy rich corPirate 1%er naming other filthy rich corPirate 1%ers "game changers". While the rest of America, the 99%ers, are told to eat cake.

THIS...is one of the reasons why the rest of us, on here and elsewhere are rallying against such insular, inbred, elitist corPiratism.

[Geneil]

07:17 PM on 10/18/2011

See what a sex tape will get you?

[Mr Hoodoo]

01:57 PM on 10/22/2011

In the eyes of AH, KK's apparently a "game changer" because she parlayed being p e e d on in a sextape into millions of dollars and the adulation of millions of dumbed-down consumers who this site is vying for for profits.

Profits before all else, ya know! }8 l

[Niaz Basheer Ahmed]

05:18 AM on 11/29/2011

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[m black]

05:30 PM on 10/17/2011

Really -- Kim Kardashian as a business game changer? How is she any different than other other celebrity that hawks their wares? Jessica Simpson? J. Lo.? I'm still shaking my head to try and see what makes them so "game changing"? They're rich. They have the money and the celebrity name power and connections to get their products out there. While that certainly helps, is it really game changing? The type of stuff they sell isn't mind boggling or inventive or particularly cool. It isn't even designed by them personally. Will it increase in value over time? No. Will I pass their products down to my children? No. Seems to me kinda shallow, flavor-of-the-moment criteria to me.

[Dan Christiansen]

03:50 PM on 10/14/2011

"In 2010, President Obama appointed Burns to be the Vice Chair of the President's Export Council, where she advocated for "more progressive free and fair trade initiatives with an end result that protects and adds more American jobs." "

Yet, back at home within Xerox she is selling American Engineering jobs to India...

[PensivePete]

12:34 PM on 10/13/2011

How do you nominate Kim Kardashian and totally ignore Elizabeth Warren as a game changer in business?

[writeon1]

09:34 PM on 10/20/2011

I would guess it depends on who has the biggest advertising budget.

[Mr Hoodoo]

01:52 PM on 10/22/2011

Glad handing and greasy palms full of cash will out.

[ecrichert12]

11:52 AM on 10/13/2011

Is Ursala Burns really one of the top 10? I mean, don't know much about recent changes at Xerox, but it's underperformed the market and several competitors since she's taken over. Seems like a neutral impact in her two year tenure...

Can someone convince me what she's done specifically that is being overlooked more than 99% of business leaders?

[Trojan Mouse]

10:51 AM on 10/13/2011

I vote for Eric Holder. He has forever changed the way we sell guns into foreign countries.

[djekizian]

09:27 AM on 10/13/2011

American culture is in big trouble if a tulip bulb like Kim Kardasian is a game changer.

[Nina Platter]

10:15 PM on 10/12/2011

Kimmy is a huge success, because her mom pushes her into every money making deal she can. There is a small window of shallow success, pictures of her very pretty daughter. It shows how shallow people have become, people with better looks get our attention, our money, our fanning. It two years kim will have a life she wants, babies, husband, cats, and dogs. She will become a normal person with poopy diepers and a husband who has stinky feet. She has become what her mom created. Maybe the next stage of her life will be becoming her own person, but she will always be very rich, so if it bothers anyone they will have to see she has a business mind. She has what everyone wants, or she wouldnt be such a obsession with some cute girl with ideas and money to act on them. She is just going with the flow.

[David Danio Jr]

09:37 PM on 10/12/2011

There are several people to name, but they are not permanent..

[mcq721]

06:21 PM on 10/12/2011

I vote for the American worker!!! also protesters on wall street F.E.E.

[Trojan Mouse]

10:52 AM on 10/13/2011

The workers and the non-workers?

[CharlieTuba]

02:54 PM on 10/12/2011

Where is Steve Jobs? I know he's dead, but without him there would be no personal computer.

[Schnides]

01:45 PM on 10/12/2011

Another "Game Changers" article??? With Kim K on the list??? Really???? Borrrrrring!!!!

[Mr Hoodoo]

01:54 PM on 10/22/2011

Careful. AH's personal site-jackboots are watching. I'm surprised they're finally deiging to allow people to call her out on this ridiculous and extremely ill-thought-out transparent "choice".

As you probably saw on one of the others earlier this week they deleted hundreds of posts because people dared to not fawn over her choice of KK.

[gripeboy]

01:10 PM on 10/12/2011

Kim Kardashian? Really? This talentless hack doesn't belong on the list. What's wrong with you people?

[Mama Bee]

01:02 PM on 10/12/2011

" while keeping manufacturing costs low with the use of the internet and low wage manufacturing of China. ShoeDazzle now has over 3 million subscribers and recently landed a $40 million dollar venture capital investment."

This woman, despite her "success" is an embarassment. First, her over the top wedding gift wanna wannas and now this....China??? For goodness sake, the only game she has changed is to cement GREED and more classless GREED into the top ten of non-virtues.

[writeon1]

09:38 PM on 10/20/2011

They changed the story up, it used to say low wage workers in China. I know this because I commented on it in another kim story about this same thing and it got deleted.