WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

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Entrepreneur
The entrepreneur leads the firm or organization and also demonstrates leadership qualities by selecting managerial staff. Entrepreneurs emerge from the population naturally because they perceive opportunities and see themselves as well-positioned to take advantage of them, or because they observe a problem and see themselves as able to solve it.
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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of creating something new with value by devoting the necessary time and effort, assuming the accompanying financial, psychic, and social risks, and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction of independence. Robert Hisrich

Women Entrepreneurs
A women Entrepreneur is one who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent.

Women Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or group of women who initiate, organise and co-operate a business enterprise. Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by a woman having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving atleast 51% of employment generated in the enterprise to women.

Categories of Women Entrepreneurs

Third Category Illiterate women Financially week Involved in family business (Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy, Fisheries, Agro Forestry, etc).

Neelam Dhawan-Microsoft
Managing

Director, Microsoft India, leads Microsoft India. Previously, Neelam was the Managing Director of Microsoft India, a position she held from 2005 to 2008. She has countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HPs Services, Personal Systems and Imaging & Printing businesses.

Naina Lal Kidwai

Naina

Lal Kidwai, Investment

Banker. Fortune magazine listed her as one of the worlds most powerful business women in 2003. India Inc recognises her as one of its most powerful investment bankers. Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBCs deputy CEO, cant be reduced to simple woman- banker equations; her professional vision transcends gender.
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Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw-Biocon

Chairman &

Managing Director of Biocon

Ltd., who became Indias richest woman in 2004. She founded Biocon-India with a capital of Rs.10,000 in her garage in 1978 the initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Her application for loans were turned down by banks then on three counts biotechnology was then a new word, the company lacked assets, women entrepreneurs were still a rarity. Today, her company is the biggest biopharmaceutical firm in the country
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Nooyi- PepsiCo
Nooyi joined

PepsiCo in 1994 and was named

president and CFO in 2001. Nooyi has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led PepsiCo's restructuring, including the 1997 divestiture of its restaurants into Tricon. While CEO of PepsiCo in 2011, Nooyi earned a total compensation of $17 million which included a base salary of $1.6 million, a cash bonus of $2.5 million, pension value was $3 million. PepsiCo Inc (NYSE:PEP), the largest food and beverage business in North America and the second-largest in the world. The company's actual earnings exceeded the market's consensus by margins in the range of 0.8% and 5.37%.

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Indu Jain-Times Group

The

multi-faceted lady used to be the Chairman of the Times Group-The most powerful and largest Media house India has known. Indu Jain is known by many different identities such as that of spiritualist, humanist, entrepreneur, an educationalist. Indu Jain is the perfect picture of the successful Indian Woman entrepreneur

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Preetha Reddy-Apollo
Managing

Director of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. One of the largest healthcare conglomerates of India, is one of the pioneer businesswoman of India in the segment of Health Care Industry. Preetha is the first woman advisor on healthcare to the Government of India, and also a member of the National Quality Council, which provides the guidelines on minimum quality standards in Indian Hospitals.

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