Harvard Business Review published its first issue 100 years ago with a mission to help leaders put the best management thinking into practice. To mark our centennial, we asked eight current and former CEOs from some of the world's top companies to describe the ideas that have propelled their own careers and organizations. Stephane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, on planning from the future back; Anish Shah, CEO of Mahindra, on purpose-driven strategy; Roz Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, on listening as a leader; Nicolas Hieronimus, CEO of L'Oreal, on global vision with local execution; Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China, on continuous innovation; Mo Ibrahim, former CEO of Celtel, on inclusive capitalism; Ignacio Galan, CEO and chairman of Iberdrola, on transparent sustainability reporting; Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, on performance with purpose. As we at HBR look to the future, we recommit to our mission of helping leaders build a better world for customers, employees, partners, and communities.

PepsiCo is among the few global, established companies that have delivered superior financial performance while meeting the needs of all stakeholders. It has always invested for the long term and delivered results in the short term. The layer that author Indra Nooyi added, first as SVP for corporate strategy and then as CEO, was a focus on sustainability--defined here as satisfying multiple stakeholder interests to ensure the long-term viability of a company. Called Performance with Purpose (PwP), it is based on four pillars: delivering superior financial returns (financial sustainability); transforming the product portfolio by making more-healthful, more-nutritious foods and beverages while reducing the sugar, salt, and fat in PepsiCo products (human sustainability); limiting environmental impact by conserving water and reducing the company's carbon footprint and plastic waste (environmental sustainability); and lifting people up by offering new types of support to women and families inside the company and in the communities it serves (talent sustainability).

PepsiCo's CEO Indra Nooyi believes that each PepsiCo product must engage customers so directly and personally that they fall in love with it. So in 2012 she hired renowned designer Mauro Porcini as PepsiCo's first chief design officer. What Nooyi calls "design thinking" now informs nearly everything the company does, from product creation, to the look on the shelf, to how consumers interact with a product after they buy it. HBR Editor in Chief Adi Ignatius interviews Nooyi about how she transformed the company's strategy, its products, and its organizational culture by placing design at the center. The article also includes a sidebar, written by Mauro Porcini, called "How Design Can Thrive."