Indra K. Nooyi

Indra K. Nooyi

Board Member at Amazon
Company Tenure: 5 years
Education:
University of Madras (B.S.) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Indra K. Nooyi serves as a Board Member at Amazon, where she has provided her expertise for 5 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Madras and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management. Nooyi has not made any politcal contributions.

Profile Details

Affiliated Companies

Amazon

Amazon

Key Statements

"You can't practice inclusive behavior in a company unless you have a critical mass of diversity."

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"If you have two people in the top 50 executives who are diverse and everybody else is of one kind, how are you going to teach inclusive behavior?"

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"So stage one is quotas. You have to put some quotas and numbers in place to get the appropriate critical mass of diverse people in."

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"Then you practice, you train on inclusive behavior, and it's got to be a give and take. The people who are diverse should give feedback on what's working and not working. And the people who are not diverse ought to really take that feedback to heart and then figure out how to make changes."

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"So don't look at quotas as something bad. It's bad if it's not in the early stages. So if it's in the early stages, start with a quota. Insist that the numbers get to 25 30% diverse people."

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"…so 25, 30% diverse and then build the inclusion behavior on top of that."

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"(Inclusion) starts with numbers and then becomes a mindset."

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"If you look at it through a risk lens or future proofing, the company, if you want to look at it through a growth lens and fast forward today, that's what ESG is all about. Started off as the CSR project."

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