Can't resist watching IPL, KBC: Indra Nooyi As Nooyi traced her journey while writing this book, she says, she was in awe of how India has passed so many "intelligent laws to protect its citizens", and how many of these focus on women. Breaking the zero-sum game: Indra Nooyi on 'capturing and leaving the crown' "This zero-sum game for women when it comes to work or family achievements is pernicious.
It's important for men, in particular, to see that this holds us all back. Why not just let women soar in every part of life? Why not celebrate what we do well when we do it? It also dropped its Rs family postpaid plan and nudged retail users to upgrade to Rs plan offering more data. The aim of the exercise is to facilitate joint training between Indian and Russian Armies to jointly plan and conduct counter-terror operations under the United Nations mandate.
The conduct of the exercise will also entail academic discussions between expert groups of both contingents. INDRA India-Russia joint training exercise begins in Volgograd Lockdown relaxation accelerated June auto sales growth: Ind-Ra Relaxation of localised lockdowns in most parts of the country led to the sequential as well as year-on-year increase in domestic auto sales volumes in June , India Ratings and Research Ind-Ra said.
A similar impact has been seen by vehicles that are involved in tourist services, school bus operations, and local conveyance where a large portion of this book may already be restructured or may have slipped into NPAs," Ind-Ra said. India's pharma sector growth accelerates in May due to low base effect The ratings agency opined that the India Ratings reiterates negative outlook on under-construction office space providers Excluding the impact of acquisitions, occupancy at large REITs focusing on office portfolios declined to When the latter offered her a role as chief strategist, she began working with the highly recognizable food and drink company.
One of her earliest and most controversial decisions was convincing the PepsiCo CEO to drop its restaurant division, which consisted of fast food chains like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Nooyi became the chief financial officer in , president in , and finally chairman of the board and chief executive officer in While PepsiCo was flourishing in the s and early s, a slew of factors slowed down the company right as Nooyi took over as CEO in So, Nooyi had to judge whether it was better to achieve short-term or long-term success.
One of Nooyi's initiatives was becoming more design-focused. She said she visits a market every week to see how PepsiCo's products look on the shelves.
Another component of Nooyi's long-term strategy was prioritizing healthy products. At first, that deafened PepsiCo's quarterly numbers and caused analysts to doubt her leadership.
Nooyi shared at a Business Insider panel how analysts scoffed at her strategy for years: "They kept telling me, 'Why are you Mother Teresa? Why are you trying to change your portfolio to healthier products? That's where we needed to go. And since , PepsiCo has managed to beat quarterly expectations.
Armed with a masters degree, Nooyi kick-started what would become a dazzling career spanning consulting, corporate planning, and a chief financial officer CFO role. In , she joined the Boston Consulting Group where she spent six years working on international corporate strategy projects across consumer goods and chemical companies. After this, she moved to mobility company Motorola in as a business development executive responsible for its automotive and industrial electronic group.
In , Nooyi joined Swiss industrial goods company Asea Brown Boveri where she was part of the management team. It was in that Nooyi moved to PepsiCo as senior vice-president for strategic planning, starting off a 24 year-long career at the American food and beverage giant.
She rose through the ranks to become a senior vice-president and then the CFO. These acquisitions paved her way to the title of president and CFO in Brands into a separately listed entity in By , PepsiCo was ready to announce her as head, making her its first female chief ever.
What followed was a loss of market share, job cuts , and curtailed investments in marketing and research and development. For her impressive dealmaking talents, Nooyi was promoted to the job of chief financial officer at PepsiCo in February of It made her the highest-ranking Indian-born woman among the ranks of corporate America. A year later, she was given the title of president as well, when her longtime colleague, Steven S. Reinemund, advanced to the position of board chair and chief executive officer.
Reinemund had said he would only take the job only if Nooyi came onboard as his second in command. Upon taking over as president and chief financial officer in May of , Nooyi worked to keep the company on track with her vision: "For any part of the day we will have a little snack for you," she told Business Week in The company sold a dazzling range of snack foods and beverages, from Mountain Dew to Rice-a-Roni, from Captain Crunch cereal to Gatorade-brand sports drinks.
It also owned the makers of Doritos-brand snacks and Aquafina bottled water. Nooyi's success in the business world landed her on Time magazine's list of "Contenders" for its Global Business Influentials rankings in Many watchers predict that she will someday head one of the company's divisions, such as Frito-Lay, or its core brand, PepsiCo Beverages North America.
In early , there were mentions in the press that Nooyi, who still wears the occasional sari to work, was being considered for the top job at the Gucci Group, but she denied rumors that she had been talking with the Italian luxury-goods giant.
Nooyi serves on the board of trustees at the Yale Corporation, the governing board of Yale University. At home, she maintains a puja, or traditional Hindu shrine, and once she flew to Pittsburgh after a tough session with Quaker Oats executives to pray at a shrine there to her family's deity. Her predictions that her American graduate education would hamper her marriage prospects proved untrue, for she married an Indian man, Raj, who works as a management consultant.
They have two daughters who are nearly a decade apart in ages, and Nooyi occasionally brings her younger child to work. The former rock guitarist is still known to take the stage at company functions to sing. Her job, however, remains a top priority. She watches championship-game replays of the Chicago Bulls to study teamwork concepts, for example, and admitted to Forbes journalist Melanie Wells that she strategizes sometimes.
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