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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 91 — a091

# Indra Nooyi

**Profile.** Former chair and CEO of [[entity-org-pepsico]] (2006–2018). The first woman of color and first immigrant to head a Fortune 50 company. Author of the memoir *My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future*. Serves on boards including Amazon and the National Gallery of Art.

**Role in this source.** Nooyi is the featured guest of this HBR Executive Live session, interviewed by [[entity-adi-ignatius]]. Effectively every concept, claim, framework, quote, action item, and contrarian position in this vault is attributed to her.

**Attributed contributions.**
- Concepts: [[concept-performance-with-purpose]], [[concept-innovation-as-science]], [[concept-zoom-in-zoom-out]], [[concept-duration-of-the-company]], [[concept-future-back-change]], [[concept-taste-training-reformulation]]
- Frameworks: [[framework-question-first-ai]], [[framework-innovation-segmentation]], [[framework-consensus-metric-reduction]]
- Claims: [[claim-ai-productivity-enabler]], [[claim-geopolitics-challenges-multinationals]], [[claim-genai-lacks-depth]], [[claim-growth-is-oxygen]], [[claim-ceos-should-not-speak-out]], [[claim-strategy-is-constant-dialogue]]
- Quotes: [[quote-growth-is-oxygen]], [[quote-duration-of-company]], [[quote-innovation-as-science]], [[quote-numbers-lie-strength]], [[quote-truth-to-power]]
- Contrarian positions: [[contrarian-bloated-metrics]], [[contrarian-ceo-activism]], [[contrarian-work-for-individuals]]

**Canonical:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra_Nooyi