America's Best Leaders: Indra Nooyi, Pepsico Ceo

Leadership must be doing something right if they have been around for over 100 years and able to compete with as much strong competition that exist these days. In order for Coca-Cola to continue to compete in the market, they have worked hard to educate and support

The company has been pioneer in field of business and also been responsible. The company has kept its objective very close to its heart and its initiative to reduce Carbon Footprint and water wastage to Zero by 2040 and Sustained source of supply for its food business by 2020 shows its commitment towards external stakeholders as well. They have been pioneer in field of business and have worked to improve its business

Indra’s leadership style had lead PepsiCo become a successful company. According to BusinessWeek, since Indra joined PepsiCo as CFO in 2000, the company's annual revenues have risen 72% and net profit have risen to $5.6 billion in 2006, more than doubled. However, democratic leadership style brings advantages and disadvantages respectively.

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born, business executive and current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue. She was born on October 27, 1955 in Madras, India to a very conservative middle class indian family.She was a bit of a rebel, and tended to break rules as a young adult and child. She joined an all girls cricket team and became a part of an all girls rock band playing guitar. She studied at Madras Christian College where she received her undergraduate degree in chemistry, math and physics. She then applied for the Indian institute of Management in Calcutta, where she graduated and

What I find to be the biggest indicator of concern is that PepsiCo’s profitability is currently declining, despite its ever-increasing sales figures. It has lost 2% on both its profit margin, and return on assets. The return on common stockholder’s equity, has dipped by 4%, and they lost $.02 over every dollar invested in assets in 2005. This goes back to my assessment of their sales and net income figures. Here again, I see indications that their spending has increased dramatically, which is having a negative impact on profitability. Since the soft drink industry is a high-volume, low-overhead industry, controlling and minimizing expenses is of paramount importance. I find this trend to be very troubling, considering PepsiCo’s sales haven’t stopped climbing, yet they are starting to lose their profitability. Should their sales dip, they will be very hard put to maintain themselves.

Goals: To provide healthy foods that will eventually lead the company in earning a healthy bottom-line.

For example, Indra K. Nooyi, an Indian American Woman, who graduated with not only a M.B.A. from Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India but also a M.B.A from Yale University in Connecticut, United States of America. According to the article, Knowledge Center: Women CEOs of The S&P 500, from Catalystic.org, Nooyi is one of the 23 women who accounts for CEOs list of Fortune 500 and Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of the international chips and beverage company PepsiCo since 2006. Nooyi manages PepsiCo, which generates an annual net worth of 63 billion dollars and owns more than 200 brands and 22 popular international brands such as Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Seven Up, Green Machine Naked, Gatorade, Ready-to-drink Starbucks, Tropicana,

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. has a mission and vision statement that accurately reflects the strategic business plan and encompasses their brand. These statements have been effectively written to be mutually supporting and provide the roadmap for continued success. Based upon Kraft’s mission and vision statement, the company has developed a well-rounded set of values centered upon a “Responsibility” approach. The company has also identified and pursued incremental goal subsets that are moving the company in the direction of the vision statement via following the mission statement

The person I am identifying as the well-known, real world business leader who encompasses the same leadership philosophy or style as myself is Indra Nooyi. She is a very determined head strong person. We have one similar path in our business world career. She helped upper management in one of her many jobs make important business decisions that affect the day to day operations. I, as a former Quality Control Inspector, would help make policy and procedure decisions. These decisions were designed to reduce errors and defects which led to more money being kept on the contract and bigger bonuses for everyone. She has held many jobs from Tootal-a British textile company to Johnson & Johnson, Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, Asea Brown Boveri,

When Roger Enrico, Chief Executive Officer for PepsiCo, took over he began to examine the corporation. Going on the belief that if you can't make diversification work, give it up. For nearly three years PepsiCo has been undergoing a major strategic transformation. PepsiCo's chairman, Roger A. Enrico, stated in his letter, "…And while 1998 certainly offered its share of challenges, I'm very pleased to report that our strategy is beginning to payoff."

Nooyi is an unconventional leader of high caliber. She revolutionized and maneuvered PepsiCo’ portfolio, increasing the company’s worth and market value. She is a smart risk-taker and a change agent. Early in her career, she restructured the company by making bold decisions. In 1997, she made a dramatic move to sell PepsiCo’s restaurant business and bottling division. She is a forward-looking leader who saw the change in consumer habits. She led the acquisition of healthy brands such as Tropicana, Gatorade, Quaker Oats and Naked Juice.[6] Nooyi entered corporate America at a time when strategic acuity was a commodity. She considers her strategic skill an asset and used it to capitalize on the economic downturn. During the recession, PepsiCo continued to reinvest and bought back its previous bottling divisions. By the end of the year, the company is estimated to gain $60 billion in revenues with over 300,000 employees worldwide.[7] Nooyi’s leadership helped improve PepsiCo’s corporate position today. PepsiCo currently ranks number

PepsiCo has promoted responsible advertising to all consumers by adhering to the Consolidated ICC Code of Advertising and marketing Communication Practice. PepsiCo's marketing campaigns promote healthy choices, particularly to children under 12 (PepsiCo Inc., 2010). PepsiCo's healthy marketing helps attract new customers, keeps PepsiCo focused on satisfying its customers after they buy

Indra Nooyi is one of those legends, she was able to grow up in one of the poorest, most populated countries in the world, India, and then move to a foreign territory and still make it to the top of the pyramid by hard work alone. Indra Nooyi, now the CEO of PepsiCo is one of the richest beverage companies in the world, has shown us that it doesn’t matter where you start from it matters where you go and how you get there.

Pepsi Co 's assignment taken as a whole is to amplify the value of its shareholder 's investment through sales intensification, expenditure gearshift and prudent investment of resources (Bongiorno, 1996, p 71). In this pose, Pepsi believes that its moneymaking triumph depends on

Since being appointed CEO of PepsiCo in 2006, Indra Nooyi has been secure in herself, her Indian roots, and is extremely values-driven. This is demonstrated in her mix of socialized charismatic and authentic leadership in addition to her respect of work life balance for both her self and her employees even recognizing the support of employee families to the company as a whole. Under Nooyi’s leadership, a value oriented and motivated corporate culture was established at at all levels of PepsiCo. Case 10 Indra Nooyi: A Transcultural Leader delves deeper into the more instrumental elements of Indra Nooyi’s