Indra Nooyi Biography

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Indra K. Nooyi is the president and chief operation officer at the PepsiCo. She was born in 1955 at Madras state in India in a middle class family. Nooyi was outstanding person with a very strong personality and a unique way of thinking, while at that time it was inappropriate for a young woman to express themself. She was educated at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Madras. During school years, she participated in all female musical rock-bands, as well as a playing in a cricket team. Earlier received a Bachelor's degree in chemistry, mathematics and physics from Madras Christian College in 1974, she enrolled at Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) in 1976. This was the …show more content…

She is one of the most famous and powerful women in American industry. Being a chief financial officer and president, she implement very valuable and unique concept into Pepsico increasing its net revenue and market share globally. First of all, as a great leader and a mother, she respecting a family value in all its level. PepsiCo employee is not just a working labor to achieve some mission and goals of the company, it is a family. We’ve worried about buying employees, we’ve worried about bouncing them when things didn't work, but we’ve never focused on engaging them with their hearts [emphasis mine], Nooyi said. (World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2008). When Nooyi visited her mother once, she was greeted by her mother friends for all achievement she reaches in her workplace. She realizes that family and people around is so proud what a good job she did. Then, Nooyi decide to write a letter for all her employee about the great impact their child bring to the company and how valuable the person work. Nooyi has a good trait for appreciating a family and people around …show more content…

Nooyi is a member of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Rescue Committee, Motorola, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. This shows her interaction with a world and how it could be driven for a better future. She is also a Successor Fellow of the Yale Corporation and on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management, providing her experience on the students who is willing to achieve and develop their skills in a different level. Nooyi also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Eisenhower Fellowships and Asia Society, showing her interest for giving opportunity to students who cannot afford their education. She is the member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission that is discussing an issue of global concern of economy nowadays between Europe, America and Asia and how it could be solved. Nooyi has a great characteristic behavior of caring about world issue and peoples problem around the world.
Last, but not the least Nooyi is incredibly intelligent person. While working at PepsiCo, she helps a company to raise its revenue and was participated to merger Tropicana brand. She was starting from the school and finishing her MBA shows her dedication in knowledge. This is an example, that she is very hardworking person and devoted to her business field. We could

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