{"id":1395,"date":"2005-05-21T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2005-05-21T08:25:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T08:25:47","slug":"pepsis_interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi&#8217;s Interesting Mea Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2005\/05\/pepsi\/pepsico_5212005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2005\/05\/pepsi\/pc.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td>The company that <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22don+kendall%22+pepsi\">Don Kendall<\/a> built and <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22roger+enrico%22+pepsi\">Roger Enrico<\/a> grew has an interesting PR problem.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">Pepsico President Indra Nooyi delivered a controversial commencement speech at Columbia Business School.   Pepsi has been backtracking ever since on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\">corporate website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what would have happened to a local truck driver who might have given a similar speech to a High School&#8217;s graduating class, or perhaps a mid level manager speaking at a regional business conference?  Somehow, I think they would be looking for something else to do. Background on her speech via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;q=%22indra+nooyi%22+columbia&#038;btnG=Search\">google<\/a>.  BusinessWeek posted  Nooyi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/may2005\/nf20050520_9852.htm\">remarks<\/a>. Diane Brady <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/may2005\/nf20050520_7587_db042.htm?campaign_id=topStories_ssi_5\">refers<\/a> to Nooyi&#8217;s inept analogy.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar Water&#8230;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company that Don Kendall built and Roger Enrico grew has an interesting PR problem. Pepsico President Indra Nooyi delivered a controversial commencement speech at Columbia Business School. Pepsi has been backtracking ever since on their corporate website. I wonder what would have happened to a local truck driver who might have given a similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}