Indra Nooyi, the Indian-born PepsiCo Chairperson & CEO,
has become the Yale School of Management’s biggest alumni donor with a
‘landmark gift’ to endow the deanship at her alma mater.
Chennai-born Nooyi, 60, who graduated from the school in 1980, has made the gift to also inaugurate the Fifth Decade Innovation Fund, the school announced.
The fund is an ambitious initiative designed to advance the school’s aim of developing leaders with the broad global mindset and multi-disciplinary approach to business that is needed to succeed in 21st-century capitalism, the school said
With this gift, Nooyi becomes the most generous graduate of Yale School of Management in terms of lifetime giving to the school. She is the first woman to endow the deanship at a top business school.
My gift to this wonderful institution pales in comparison with the gift that Yale gave me-the fundamental understanding that leadership requires an expansive worldview and a deep appreciation of the many points of intersection between business and society.
Nooyi, who has served as chief executive officer of PepsiCo since 2006, and chairperson since 2007. Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi worked in senior roles
at Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola, and the Boston Consulting Group.
Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of US-China Business Council and US-India Business Council. She is also a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and and was appointed to the US-India CEO Forum by President Barack Obama.
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