The Yale University and the Confederation of Indian Industry are jointly holding two panel discussions on India in New York later this month, featuring corporate leaders like Indra Nooyi and Nandan Nilekani.
The ball, explains the division's new head of marketing, Vidur Vyas, was set rolling a few years earlier, when Pepsi Foods cut saturated fats in key snack brands such as Lays and Kurkure by close to 40 per cent.
The inventor of iPhone, Apple, for the second year in a row has topped the Fortune list of the most admired companies in the world, but no Indian company has made the cut.
These women are building billion-dollar brands, calling the shots in the financial markets, and crisscrossing the globe to broker international agreements and provide aid, the magazine noted
Mobile phone maker Motorola's India-born chief Sanjay Jha has emerged America's top paid chief executive officer, while Citigroup's Vikram Pandit tops the league among bailed out banks, a survey said. Another Indian on the list is PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi at the 36th slot with a pay package of $13.98 million.
Professors Padma Desai and Jagdish Bhagwati were conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr Renu Khator, President and Chancellor of the University of Houston, was given the Publisher's Special Award for Excellence. The Youth Achiever 2007 Award was given to 24-year-old Somdev Dev Burman, the first Indian to win the US collegiate tennis title. The Community Service Award went to Dr Navin Shah, while Dr Joy Cherian received the Lifetime Award for Service to the Community
The latest Fortune list is topped by Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs.
The Ambanis are ranked 31 ahead of the likes of global soft drink giant PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and music-to-airlines conglomerate Virgin Group's founder Richard Branson.
Mobile phone maker Motorola's India-born chief Sanjay Jha has emerged America's top paid CEO, while Citigroup's Vikram Pandit tops the league among bailed out banks, a survey said.
Arshia Joshi lost her life in a tragic car accident in Pennsylvania on March 21, the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X on Saturday.
Why Indra Nooyi's rise to the top is a cause for much celebration.
The investment would be spread over manufacturing capacity, market infrastructure, environment sustainability initiatives, R&D and agriculture. Pepsico Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi said the new investment will generate 50,000 direct and indirect jobs in India. PepsiCo has invested $ 700 million since its entry into the country in 1989, employing 4,000 people directly and some 60,000 others indirectly.
Three Indian women -- ICICI Bank deputy managing director Chanda Kochhar, HSBC India CEO Naina Lal Kidwai and Biocon head Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -- have been named among the world's 50 most powerful businesswomen by the Fortune magazine.
However, missing from the list for the first time in four years is United States President George W Bush.
At 49, she also becomes the first outside woman to hold a key position in a Wadia company.
Does the fact that iconic global companies have Indian-origin CEOs reflect our systemic failure to nurture talent and create such companies in India?
Chennai-born Indian-American businesswoman and musician Chandrika Tandon, 71, won a Grammy in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category for her album Triveni, a blend of ancient chants and world music, at the 2025 Grammys.
PepsiCo head Indra Nooyi believes so but we want to know what you think.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gifted famous Indian tea to the captains of 11 large American corporations.
PepsiCo has been is forced to mull over its sponsorship deal with the Indian Premier League following the controversies around the cricket tournament.
World's largest asset manager Blackrock will host a global investors meet in India next year, CEO Laurence Flik conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A multi-billion dollar broadcast market, the game's most powerful board's positive intent and a perfect pitch by the global body based on a three-fold 'U-P-L' principle ensured cricket's inclusion in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The US-India Business Council announced the appointment of Indra K Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, to its Board of Directors. The USIBC is a business advocacy organisation representing 250 of the largest US companies investing in India and two dozen of India's largest global companies, it said in a statement.
Wojcicki, 54, said in her blog post that she will focus on "family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about." Wojcicki, who was previously a senior vice president for ad products at Google, became CEO of YouTube in 2014.
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi's itinerary for his June 21-24 US visit could include an address to a fledgling business advocacy group, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
"India has been a fantastic market" for the $40 billion PepsiCo, Indra K Nooyi, chairman and CEO said, and this is the feedback she has received from other CEOs of American companies doing business in India.
Many other Indians are heading the businesses at companies abroad.
Cricket's Twenty20 format is tailor-made for Olympics but the sport's administrators will consider any format which would ensure the game's inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Games, USA Cricket chief Paraag Marathe said.
The jury is still out on Chhatriwali's flimsy public service, but Rakul sure passes the quality check, applauds Sukanya Verma.
"Satya Nadella is a perfect example of how appropriate, thoughtful immigration reform can benefit both our free-market democracies, says Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council.
The company, which has so far invested $2 billion in the country since its entry in 1989, said the investment will be made to strengthen its capability in various strategic areas, including innovation, manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture.
The corporate big-wigs gathered in Davos, for the 44th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting said investors, corporate boards, business schools and accounting rules must change to de-emphasise short-term financial performance.
With rising incomes, education, and health awareness in India, especially in the big cities, droves of people are saying no to sugar.
Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal - the founders of IndiGo - will possibly face each other with deep mistrust, which the board chairman, M Damodaran, will attempt to defuse.
US-based global technology giant IBM expressed keen interest in participating in India's newly-launched initiatives like Smart Cities and Digital India.
State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI bank head Chanda Kochhar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HT Media chair Shobhana Bhartia are among the world's 100 most powerful women.
Whether they live away from their families or with them, all CEOs struggle with work-life balance, says Shyamal Majumdar.
ICICI's Chanda Kochhar, ranked highest among Indian women, has been ranked second across the region
Finalising the nomination process to elect Shashank Manohar's successor as the next independent chairman of the world cricket body is the sole agenda for the ICC Board, which will meet virtually on Monday.
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