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Sir Dorabji Tata pioneered many firsts in the concept of modern industrialization
August 27 is Sir Dorabji Tata’s 163rd birth Birth Anniversary.Jamshedpur, Aug 26: Sir Dorabji Tata was the elder son...
From locks to critical components in Mars Mission, how Godrej helped in India’s self-reliance
In 2022, India boasts of over 72,000 recognized startups with the world's third-largest start-up ecosystem to support their growth. Over a century ago, India was used as a market for English...
Godrej locks its history in Amar Chitra Katha in outreach to youth
The challenge, Godrej says, was to reach a younger audience and children who might have had very little association with the brand It is not the first time the history of the Godrej family is being...
Godrej Group headed for split of $4.1 billion business empire
At present, the group is led by veteran industrialist Adi Godrej (79), who is its chairmanThe $4.1 billion Godrej Group, spanning from soaps and home appliances to real estate, is headed for a split...
The JRD Special Issue: Tata Steel Times
The Tata Steel Times has a special publication dedicated to J R D Tata. You can also download the issue as a PDF file
The Battle of the Parsis
Will the house that Jamsetji built with a capital of Rs 21,000 in 1868 continue to retain its values?LET’S START THIS story with the one question everyone asks. How many Parsis are there in...
An Expert Explains: Behind the Tata-Mistry feud, the crossed wires of history
The Supreme Court has set aside a Tribunal ruling that had reinstated Cyrus Mistry as Executive Chairman of Tata Sons. Tracing the history of the Tata, Wadia and Mistry families, leading to the...
Apart from the Serum Institute of India, these are all the companies the Poonawallas own
Take a gander at all the businesses the illustrious Poonawalla family owns and manages in the country and beyondThe Poonawalla family is among the wealthiest Indian business clans in the world, with...
Tata Sons offers to buy out Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s stake in shares dispute
Tata Sons has offered to buy out Shapoorji Pallonji group's stake in the holding company to help the group raise money to pay its debt. The Supreme Court has also barred the Mistry group from...
JRD Tata — the democratic capitalist
In today’s context, JRD would have approved of ‘Make in India’, but not the dilution of workers’ rights to attract foreign investors JRD Tata was chairman of Tatas, India’s largest industrial...
Design Thinking by Jimmy Mistry at ISME, ISDI, ISDI WPP and DICE Hospitality
Our dear friend Jimmy Mistry was invited to give a talk and lead an interactive discussion titled “Design Thinking” as a management tool to the students of ISDI and ISME Mr. Jimmy Mistry, CMD, Della...
Nusli Wadia battled Ambanis and Tatas and lived to tell the tale
The $7 billion Nusli WadiaWadia, who was once called as the epitome of South Bombay’s old money and genteel respectability, has been a part of many corporate brawls during 1970s and 1980s.One of the...
Portrait of Darius Forbes
A portrait of a special manWriters and dramatists have a saying: ‘Show, don’t tell.’ It means to convey a thought or emotion through dialogue or action, rather than telling the audience directly....
Lord Karan Bilimoria to become President of Confederation of British Industry
Karan Bilimoria is a crossbench peer who founded Cobra BeerAn Indian is to become president of the Confederation of British Industry, an organisation whose 190,000 members employ 7m people and is...
Naushad Forbes: In Conversation
Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman, Forbes Marshall, shares his thoughts on his family legacy , the Parsi way of doing business and the way ahead.
VFS Global CEO Zubin Karkaria honoured with Global Game Changers Award at The Indian Awards in London
· Founder and CEO of VFS Global recognised for outstanding contribution to India-UK relationship development and to global travel by transforming the visa application process· Award comes as VFS...
Tata Group history is also the history of Indian industry
The history of a behemoth that is also the history of Indian industry T.R. Doongaji hails from Nagpur, the place where Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata started his first venture, Empress Mills, in 1877....
Parsis to promote and fund start-ups of youngsters from the community
The group intends to collect Rs5 crore and disburse the amount within next two months.To revive the ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ among Parsi-Zoroastrians, the community has decided to fund business...
WZCC Plan to help Parsi Entrepreneurs
World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce – India (WZCCI) and WZO Trust Funds (WZOTF) are delighted to announce a joint plan to support entrepreneurs / professionals / start-ups by funding selected...
Eric Engineer, from Product Manager to VC to CEO
Invodo CEO and CS alumnus Eric Engineer loves the business side of the technology industry. “I was a double major: CS and Managerial Studies,” he said. “Those were the bubble years and people were...
Shakeup at House of Tatas: Ratan Back !
The board of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, has unexpectedly replaced Cyrus Mistry as chairman. Ratan Tata has been named as interim chairman and a selection committee has been...
The forgotten characters of Tata Steel
IN SEPTEMBER 1945, E. M. Forster, who had been hired by George Orwell to host a literary programme for BBC’s India service, chose to discuss a slim book called “A Steel Man in India”. It was a...
Jamsetji Tata: Glancing at the journey of the pioneer of Indian Industry
The 21st century’s Indian government major concern is to rejuvenate the India’s manufacturing base and the job it creates. To achieve this objective the present government has initiated the ‘Make In...
Jamsetji Tata: Swadeshi Capitalist
Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the industrialist Jamsetji Tata, one of a series of remarkable individuals who have made India what it is today. Tata played a vitally...
How Big Is The Tata Empire ?
A beautifully researched documentary clip on the business house of the TATA’s.
Draw My Life: Ratan Tata
Watch as Vir Sanghvi takes us through the life story of one of the most philanthropic industrialists of India-Mr. Ratan Tata, in the latest episode of #DrawMyLife
Ratan Tata inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame
Other automotive heavyweights inducted include former Ferrari chariman Luca di Montezemolo Ratan Tata has been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame for his contribution to the automotive...
Navroze Godrej: 4th-gen Godrej ushers in new culture at Godrej & Boyce
Navroze Godrej, the son of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing (G&B) chairman Jamshyd Godrej, and who is the only member of the fourth generation of the Godrejs so far to be inducted on the...
Farida Khambata Appointed as Tata & Sons’ first ever woman director
Tata Sons, promoter of the major operating Tata companies, appointed top-ranked investment strategist Farida Khambata as the first woman independent director in the company's 103-year history. With...
The Original Shippers: Cowasjee’s of Karachi
There is an old sign from the Colonial era that reads ‘Cowasji’ outside the brick structure of the Cowasjee building in Karachi’s port area, Keamari. Inside, 86-years-old Cyrus Cowasjee’s office...
Train to Jamshedpur: The story of Tata, India’s global giant
A BBC documentary in which Dr Zareer Masani tells the story of this 150-year-old Indian giant with a reputation for ethical capitalism. India's biggest industrial plant is hidden away in what were...
The men of steel with a softer side
Tata, the Indian company that owns Tetley Tea and Jaguar Land Rover, prides itself on its ethics - 66% of the business is owned by charities. Its unique character was shaped by the passions of its...
Godrej Legacy and Winning in India
The talk titled “ Godrej Legacy and Winning in India” was delivered by Nadir Godrej at Enterprise Dubai 2014 on December 20th, 2014. It started with our illustrious founder 'We couldn't have asked...
Wadia Group: Two centuries and beyond
Perhaps India’s oldest conglomerate, the Wadia Group traces its roots back to at least 200 years before the country’s independence. The group’s journey from 1736 till date Article by P.R. Sanjai...
Godrej group: Unlocking entrepreneurship
The Godrej group’s journey, from making locks and safes to selling processed food and property under the third and fourth generations of owners Article by Madhura Karnik | Live Mint ...
Vaccine Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla Joins Race For London’s Grosvenor House Hotel
Cash-rich pharma billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla who got wealthy making low-cost vaccines that his Serum Institute of India sells around the world, has put in a $937 million bid for London’s Grosvenor...
Mr. Marwari – Have you met Mr. Tata ?
In the past 12 years of pavement pounding and boardroom hustling, I have had the honour of doing business with the biggest companies in India. Nothing compares to the experience of dealing with...
The Greening of the House of Tatas
How a dedicated team converted a 90-year-old heritage structure into a benchmark for environment-friendly buildings. Article by Manisha Singhal | Business Today As early as in the late 1880s,...
The Godrej Game-Plan
Ace industrialist Adi Godrej, Chairman of the 117-yearold Godrej Group and one of India’s leading business icons, has led the company’s shift from being a family enterprise to a modern...
Aircel likely to elevate COO Kaizad Heerjee to CEO’s position
Aircel, a debt-ridden mobile phone operator, is likely to shortly elevate chief operating officer Kaizad Heerjee to the chief executive officer's position, two people aware of the development told...
Mazda, Thomas Edison and one far-out Zoroastrian connection
Ancient god ties the automaker, incandescent bulb together Perhaps you've seen that Mazda CX-5 commercial that compares the capable crossover to Thomas Edison. As far as advertisements go, it's not...
Tata tops list of Indian firms which are most transparent in BRICS: Corruption watchdog
The anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has admonished Chinese companies for their opaque business practices while praising Indian firms' relatively high standards, in a survey of...
JRD Tata: The father of commercial aviation in India
Hardelot is a beach town in the north of France. It is in the Pas de Calais, a region along the English Channel where the distance to Britain is short and, unlikely as it may seem, this is why it...
Sorabji N. Pochkhanawala And His Wild Ambition: Barons of Banking
In 1910, a young Parsi assistant accountant with the Bank of India in Bombay had the far-fetched idea that he could set up a bank of his own. When news of this alarmingly ambitious enterprise...
Adi Burjor Godrej Awarded Padma Bhushan 2013
Adi Burjor Godrej is the Chairman, The Godrej Group, Godrej Industries, India He got a Master's in Management, from MIT, US. Formerly, served as Chairman and President of industry associations and...
Ratan Tata's farewell letter to all Tata employees
Ratan Tata, who stepped down as the chairman of the Tata group today as he turned 75, has written a warm viagra com farewell letter to his employees saying, “we have every reason to feel proud and...
‘The biggest test for Cyrus is to stay true to the Tata code of ethics’
Having steered over hundred companies of the Tata group for more than two decades,Ratan Tata, who retires on December 28 as the group's chairman, says he has always tried to do the "right thing" but...
When Air India Was Efficient, Profitable and Growing Fast
In a manner of speaking, Air India, India’s foundering national airline, turns eighty on Monday – an octogenarian that started life with a spry hop from Karachi to Bombay. It should be a proud...
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry: A quiet billionaire
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, 82, is the world's most reclusive billionaire. For a man with an estimated wealth of almost $10 billion (Rs 55,000 crore), he is surprisingly invisible, rarely seen or...
Ratan Tata’s Audacious Philanthropic Retirement Plans
He grew the Tata group into a world-beater. Now, with the Tata trusts, he wants nothing less than to change the world By Prince Mathews Thomas | Forbes India One does not attain freedom from the...
Shapoor Mistry seen within the Shapoorji Pallonji Group as a 'big picture strategist'
Reclusive Indian-born Irish tycoon Pallonji Mistry, 82, officially bequeathed the chairman's role of the $2.5-billion Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SPG) to eldest son, Shapoor Mistry, 47, in early June....