Boos and catcalls rained down on Alcatel - Lucent Chief Executive Patricia Russo as she addressed the telecom gear maker's annual meeting in Paris on May 30. "You should all be embarrassed," an elderly woman said, shaking a finger at the executives assembled in the cavernous Palais de Congres convention hall. "But Mrs. Russo seems totallyrnat ease, exactly what you'd expect from an American businesswoman."rnAlcatel-Lucent is in big trouble, and Russo is catching serious flak. In France, the 56-year-old executive is viewed with suspicion as the first American, and the first woman, to head a blue-chip French company.
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