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		<title>Supporting our Veterans at the NYSE Closing Bell Ceremony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, on behalf of the PepsiCo Dream Machine recycling initiative, I had the opportunity to join members from the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) for the New York Stock Exchange closing bell ceremony. At 4 p.m. sharp, EBV graduate Elizabeth Perez-Halperin, president and founder of GC Green, a post-9/11 service-disabled veteran-owned green build general contracting and consulting firm, rang The Closing BellSM and banged the gavel to officially close trading for the day.
The EBV provides free education and entrepreneurship training to post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities. Since 2010 (the launch year for the Dream Machine program), the EBV has increased its capacity by 50 percent and added three new universities to its consortium. Currently, there are nearly 4,000 Dream Machine kiosks and bins in 37 states across the U.S., and the more plastic bottles and aluminum cans that people recycle in Dream...]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2012/01/supporting-our-veterans-at-the-nyse-closing-bell-ceremony/</link>
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		<title>Possibilities lie at the intersection of performance and purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this fall, I attended the 6th Annual Edelman Change and Employee Engagement Summit, which explored the critical and evolving relationship between employee engagement and innovative programs that both make a positive impact on society and drive the business. ]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/12/possibilities-lie-at-the-intersection-of-performance-and-purpose/</link>
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		<title>PepsiCo water stewardship: continued recognition by key stakeholders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recognition of PEP’s commitment to respect the human right to water and our recent report on the Positive Water Impact initiative, the Swedish Water House invited me to speak on the complementary roles of governments and companies with respect to water.  The setting was the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, an open setting where coffee shops, libraries, displays and seating areas flow together.  The seminar was part of a two-day series of discussions, films and presentations on the broader topic of human rights.  Daniel Yeo of WaterAid and I had a 30-minute discussion of what PepsiCo has achieved, what challenges we’ve faced, and what lies ahead.  I was happy to share news about PepsiCo Foundation’s recent commitment to Water.org ($8 million dollars to help provide access to safe water for 800,000 people through WaterCredit).  Ensuring access to clean water is critical to the success and sustainability of our business, and to the communities in which PepsiCo operates.  Working with partners like Water.org, Safe Water Network and Columbia University’s Earth Institute is instrumental in our commitment to global water stewardship.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/11/pepsico-water-stewardship-continued-recognition-by-key-stakeholders/</link>
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		<title>PepsiCo Dream Machine Recycling Supports Syracuse University Veterans Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, November 11th, I had the honor of representing PepsiCo and the Dream Machine Recycling Initiative at Syracuse University during its Veterans Day football game.  This marked my second visit to SU and PepsiCo’s second half million dollar donation to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) through the Dream Machine recycling program. The EBV provides free education and entrepreneurship training to post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities. The program was founded by Mike Haynie at SU’s Whitman School of Management and is now operated by the new Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), which formally opened last week.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/11/pepsico-dream-machine-recycling-supports-syracuse-university-veterans-program/</link>
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		<title>Recruiting Industry Events &amp; Observations &#8211; Fall 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I've said that the best ideas and breakthroughs at recruiting industry events tend to happen after the sessions are over and when essentially everyone gets a microphone with whomever they'd like to connect.  The social events or dinners that happen after the podiums are abandoned are where attendees open up and where speakers can go deep on topics they may have been forced to gloss over in just 45 minutes on stage.  So for me, events have always been about the conversation more than the sessions.  However, in the last 2 years I've really learned that there is more to pull from the sessions than I previously realized - even (or especially) the sessions that go poorly.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/11/recruiting-industry-events-observations-fall-2011/</link>
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		<title>Enterprise EthioPEA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Later today, with the  Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting as a backdrop, PepsiCo's CEO Indra Nooyi will come together with  Josette Sheeran from the United Nations World Food Programme and Dr. Rajiv Shah from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to announce a partnership that will lead a chickpea revolution to promote economic and nutritional security in Ethiopia.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/09/enterprise-ethiopea/</link>
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		<title>The Promise of PepsiCo on Go Green Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to discuss PepsiCo’s environmental sustainability initiatives on Go Green Radio with Jill Buck, host of the national program on VoiceAmerica and Founder and CEO of the Go Green Initiative. Jill was interested to learn how PepsiCo is “doing sustainability right” – what we are doing to replenish the natural resources we use to create our products and how we protect these resources and efficiently use the land, water, energy and fuel in our businesses and in the local communities we serve.
As part of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo is committed to incorporating environmental sustainability into all aspects of our global operations. In this interview – which is broken into four segments – I highlight some of our key environmental sustainability goals and details of our progress to date:
 
Segment 1
Performance with Purpose is a commitment and realization that our financial success...]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/09/the-promise-of-pepsico-on-go-green-radio/</link>
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		<title>World Water Week Wrap-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with Dan Bena of PepsiCo global operations and Claire Lyons of the PepsiCo Foundation, I recently attended World Water Week in Stockholm.  This conference has been an annual event since 1991 and brings together NGOs, governments, researchers, and companies from around the world.  This year, over 100 countries Afghanistan to Zimbabwe were represented.  Many of the alliances in which PepsiCo participates, including the Water Footprint Network, the UN CEO Water Mandate, and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development’s water leadership group, met during the week to share information and report on group initiatives.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/09/world-water-week-wrap-up/</link>
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		<title>Recognizing Ethics, The Reward of Doing Good Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the Ethisphere Institute examines companies around the world to award those who exhibit best practices in business ethics, anti-corruption, CSR and sustainability. As Ethisphere states on their website: There is no set number of companies that make the "World's Most Ethical Companies" list each year. Rather, the designation is awarded to those companies that have leading ethics and compliance programs, particularly as compared to their industry peers.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/09/recognizing-ethics-the-reward-of-doing-good-business-2/</link>
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		<title>PepsiCo Mexico’s New School Portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Mexico, we just started a new school year. Millions of children will have new experiences, new challenges and above all, a fresh opportunity to share and build a healthier school environment. A significant part of this learning experience will take place during recess, the recreo -as we call it here in Mexico- and in PepsiCo, we are contributing to make this moment of the day as fun and enjoyable as it has always been.]]></description>
		<link>http://performancenotes.pepsicoblogs.com/2011/08/pepsico-mexico%e2%80%99s-new-school-portfolio/</link>
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