Making a Difference
After graduating from Cornell, Michelle joined P&G as a buyer. During her early years with the company, Michelle struggled with the notion that her chosen career wasn’t having an impact on the world’s socioeconomic problems, a dream of hers since childhood. After all, her first assignment involved buying plastic bottles for liquid detergent, and how would that solve problems for children in the Brazilian favelas, when their mothers would never be able to afford products like that?
Despite her initial misgivings, Michelle soon began to learn of products and programs that P&G was developing with an eye toward the environment and the well-being of people around the world. She was especially intrigued by PUR—a low-cost, powdered ...
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