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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017

by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Adam Grant, Vijay Govindarajan, Thomas H. Davenport
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 7m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy

An interview with Indra Nooyi by Adi Ignatius

JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, it wasn’t clear whether Indra Nooyi would survive as PepsiCo’s CEO. Many investors saw Pepsi as a bloated giant whose top brands were losing market share. And they were critical of Nooyi’s shift toward a more health-oriented overall product line. Prominent activist investor Nelson Peltz fought hard to split the company in two.

These days Nooyi, 59, exudes confidence. The company has enjoyed steady revenue growth during her nine years in the top job, and Pepsi’s stock price is rising again after several flat years. Peltz even agreed to a truce in return for a board seat for one of his allies.

All of this frees Nooyi to focus ...

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ISBN: 9781633692107