Indira Nooyi conferred Peterson Business Award

What could be a better gift for a woman of her stature on International Women's Day , Indira Nooyi, an Indian born who after becoming the first woman CEO of PepsiCo has become the first woman to get Peterson Business Award. The award is given to individual with outstanding business leadership.

She became the sixth recipient of the biennial Peterson Business Award conferred by Greenwich Library. It was in 1992 Clementine Lockwood Peterson donated 25 million dollar to the library to establish the award in her family’s name.

She received the award from Yale University President Richard Levin; interestingly Nooyi is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and serves on the university's governing board. The award was presented on Thursday in Greenwich, her hometown in Connecticut, in the presence of hundreds of business and community leaders.

The other recipient of this award includes Louis Gerstner Jr., then-chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, Sanford Weill, former chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, and William Harrison Jr., former chairman and chief executive officer of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Indira Nooyi who was born in Chennai and after completing her B.Sc in Chemistry from Madras she secured her master degree from IIM Calcutta and Yale School of Management.

After that there was no full stop in her carrier and she climbed the success ladder one by one and carved her own niche among the list of most powerful women in the world.

She once said, “All my life I was told just be yourself because if you try to be somebody you’re not, that’s an effort that could be expended on doing the job better. So don’t try to create something that you’re not.”

She is what she is, a dedicated professional, an innovative thinker, her endurance and her grit is what she gave to the profession.

You have done your country proud.