PepsiCo’s CEO becomes “most generous graduate” of Yale B-School

The prestigious Yale School of Management is set to name its deanship in honour ofPepsiCo’s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi as she gifted an undisclosed amount to her alma mater. She becomes the school’s biggest alumni donor.

• She is also the first woman to endow the deanship at a top business school.
• The gift will be used to inaugurate the Fifth Decade Innovation Fund, which is named in recognition of the fact that the school is entering its fifth decade; the first class entered the Yale School of Management in 1976.
• In this regard she became the “most generous graduate” of Yale School of Management in terms of lifetime giving to the school.