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July 18, 2005 — Scott Johnson

The return of Indra Nooyi

Reader Ken Kampshoff points out that Drudge has posted the guests and menu for the White House dinner given by President and Mrs. Bush this evening for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs. Gursharan Kaur. Among the guests are Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes, Rep. Bobby Jindal, and GE chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt — great! (We’ll meet up with Jeff Immelt ourselves tomorrow night when he makes »
April 5, 2017 — John Hinderaker

Why Is Big Business So Liberal? The Pepsi Case

Featured image In 2005, we wrote several posts about a speech that Indra Nooyi, then president and CFO and PepsiCo, gave at Columbia Business School. As described by a Power Line reader who was present, Ms. Nooyi used the fingers of one hand to illustrate the world’s continents (excluding Australia and Antarctica): First was Africa – the pinky finger – small and somewhat insignificant but when hurt, the entire hand hurt with »
November 30, 2015 — Paul Mirengoff

Hillary Clinton and State Department, Inc.

Featured image Fox News reports, via the Associated Press, that as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton “opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists, and corporate donors to her family’s global charity.” The report is based on a review of State Department scheduling calendars. According to the AP: The woman who would become a 2016 presidential candidate met or spoke by phone with nearly »
October 27, 2008 — John Hinderaker

Drink Diet Coke!

Advertising Age reports that Pepsi-Cola is launching a new logo as part of a world-wide branding campaign. Pepsico’s Indra Nooyi, whom we wrote about here and elsewhere, and other top Pepsico executives explained the new look: [T]op executives Indra Nooyi and Massimo d’Amore called for a “quantum leap” forward in transforming the soft-drink category and defining Pepsi as a cultural leader, said Frank Cooper, Pepsi’s VP-portfolio brands. “We felt like, »
January 13, 2008 — Scott Johnson

Major E. for Congress

We introduced Major E. (Eric Egland) in “The straight story,” documenting Eric’s close encounter with Pepsi’s public relations department over the 2005 Columbia Business School commencement speech by current Pepsi chief executive officer Indra Nooyi. (At the time Nooyi was Pepsi’s chef financial officer.) After Eric returned from a six month tour in Iraq working in counterintelligence on IEDs, I met up with him in Washington while he was serving »
March 16, 2007 — Scott Johnson

Coke is it!

I adopted Coke products as my non-alcoholic beverages of choice in response to the 2005 Columbia University Business School commencement speech given by Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi. (I wrote about Nooyi’s speech in the Standard column “The straight story.”) Yesterday’s page-one Wall Street Journal story by Betsy McKay about Coke accordingly caught my eye: “Why Coke aims to slake global thirst for water.” I was struck by the basic things »
August 16, 2006 — Scott Johnson

The raspberry statement revisited

In its profile (subscribers only) of new Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi yesterday, the Wall Street Journal briefly took note of Nooyi’s June 2005 Columbia University busines school commencement address: Her brash style has sometimes backfired publicly. Last year in a commencement address at Columbia University’s business school, Ms. Nooyi compared five major continents to her hand with the U.S. representing the middle finger. In that talk, she said: “Each of »
August 14, 2006 — Scott Johnson

Pepsi’s generation next

The Wall Street Journal has just flashed a news alert that Pepsi CFO Indra Nooyi has been named Pepsi CEO effective October 1, succeeding Steven Reinemund. The Journal reports: “The move makes Nooyi one of the top women in corporate America.” For what the Journal doesn’t report, see my June 2005 Standard column: “The straight story.” Message: Buy Coke products. (Thanks to readers Joe Loughran, Tom Broeker and Kerry Anderson.) »
July 25, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Middle fingers: A case study

In her commencement speech at the Columbia Business School graduation ceremony this past May, PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi advised the audience that the United States was giving the middle finger to the rest of the world. She counselled respect for the feelings and perceptions of others. Nooyi wasted no time on the dificult question of the proper response to the feelings of others that are irrationally hostile, racist, or lethal. »
July 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

From this moment on

Last night I wrote about “The return of Indra Nooyi.” Given the Rove rage meltdown of the MSM, the past week has set me back considerably in my anger management therapy. Now I have to come to terms with news of Nooyi’s White House welcome. Charmaine Yoest of Reasoned Audacity pours a little gasoline on my fire here. Remember the basics: »
June 8, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Pepsi speaks

After four messages seeking PepsiCo’s comment on the commencement speech of president and chief financial officer Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo vice president of consumer relations Christine Jones has written Major E.: Thanks for your e-mail. Please know that PepsiCo obviously agrees with Ms. Nooyi’s efforts to explain her comments as well as the public apology she issued as soon as she realized that some people were offended and angered by her »
June 5, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Blow my bully boys blow!

When we first learned that PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi had given an unusual commencement speech at the Columbia Business School commencement ceremony at Madison Square Garden on May 15, we turned to the New York Times for an account of the speech. No luck. When we obtained a copy of the text of the speech from PepsiCo, we thought the Times might take an interest in the story we had »
June 5, 2005 — Scott Johnson

“Major E. is thirsty”

Charmaine Yoest has carefully followed Major E.’s boycott of Pepsi products pending a response to his inquiry regarding Indra Yooyi’s Columbia Business School commencement speech. Over at Reasoned Audacity, Yoest has posted a powerful memo to Coca-Cola chief executive officer Neville Isdell. Here’s the conclusion of Yoest’s memo: Time to get in gear. Major E. is thirsty. Send him some Powerade and make it snappy! Here’s the free advice. Get »
June 3, 2005 — Scott Johnson

The raspberry statement

The Daily Standard has posted my column on Major E.’s correspondence with PepsiCo regarding Indra Nooyi’s Columbia Business School commencement speech: “The straight story.” Standard online editor Jonathan Last supplies the subhead: “An American soldier tries to get PepsiCo to answer a simple question.” (Jonathan hangs his blog shingle out at Galley Slaves.) For a twist on Nooyi’s metaphorical world hand in connection with events this week in Europe, check »
May 22, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Major E. writes Diane B.

In “Business Week fingers the perp” we noted the column by BW writer Diane Brady commenting on the controversy generated by the graduation remarks of Indra Nooyi at the Columbia Business School MBA recognition ceremony last Sunday. We yield the floor to our man in Baghdad with the Improvised Explosive Device Task Force who is shortly to be “deployed forward”: Dear Ms. Brady, Thank you for your commentary on Ms. »
May 21, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Business Week fingers the perp

Business week picks up the story of the graduation remarks given by Indra Nooyi at the Columbia Univeristy MBA graduation ceremony this past Sunday: “Bloggers finger a new victim.” Business Week also posts the text of the speech. Business Week commentator Diane Brady levels criticism at all involved, asserting that Ms. Nooyi “should have known her remarks would grab attention” even though her speech “borders on pablum in this country »
May 20, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Pepsi’s moving finger…

writes and, having writ, erases, rewrites and attempts to move on. Yesterday the Web site of PepsiCo flagged Indra Nooyi’s public relations statement on her graduation remarks at the Columbia Business School MBA recognition ceremony this past Sunday. In her statement Ms. Nooyi wrote that her remarks had unfortunately been “misconstrued.” As John notes below, PepsiCo has now replaced Ms. Nooyi’s statement with an apology. On second thought, with the »