When Kenny Thompson Jr., who spent nearly five years working for the Obama administration, made the move to the private sector, he knew it would be a big change.
Global brand PepsiCo Inc. had recruited him to help lead its external affairs in 2013. And while he knew the politics portion of the job — the business side, not so much. “They were asking about business and market share and revenue and profit and loss, and I just had no idea how I could contribute to those conversations,” Thompson says of his initial meetings there. “So, that’s what led me to go to business school, and those two years of working and going to school was brutal.”
But Thompson’s not one to back away from a challenge, graduating in 2018 with an MBA in international business from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He’s since expanded the external affairs team at PepsiCo — which posted $79.5 billion in revenue in 2021 with 129,000 U.S. employees — into a four-person shop…
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