Author: Gita Piramal
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 474
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140264426
Description
The inside track on India’s eight most powerful tycoons profiled here are among Asia’s most powerful industrial tycoons. Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more.
Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house… and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market.
By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future?
Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country’s push to become an industrial superpower in the 21th century.
REVIEWS
The book is a delightful read.
-Outlook
Compulsive reading.
-Business Today
Extremely absorbing.
-Sunday Observer
Contents
Introduction
Dhirubhai Ambani
Rahul Kumar Bajaj
Aditya Vikram Birla
Rama Prasad Geonka
Brij Mohan Khaitan
Bharat and Vijay Shah
Ratan Tata
Appendix
A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index