‘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 rues that Indians have a tendency to harp too much on the dark side of things and pull down those… Continue reading ‘The biggest test for Cyrus is to stay true to the Tata code of ethics’

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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 moment, except that it serves only to remind us of the irony that one of India’s most dilapidated public-sector companies was… Continue reading When Air India Was Efficient, Profitable and Growing Fast

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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 heard in the public space. One of India’s most successful and powerful businessmen, he controls a construction empire that operates across India, West Asia… Continue reading Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry: A quiet billionaire

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. The change of guard was in keeping with the way the low-profile diversified conglomerate and its promoters go about their task – without ceremony and any announcement… Continue reading Shapoor Mistry seen within the Shapoorji Pallonji Group as a 'big picture strategist'

Ratan Tata India’s most powerful CEO, Cyrus Mistry debuts at No. 15

Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata heads the ET-Corporate Dossier ranking of India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs for the fourth year running. Set to retire by the end of the year, Tata will leave a vacancy at the top, just as former Infosys chairman NR Narayana Murthy dropped off the list of Most Powerful CEOs only… Continue reading Ratan Tata India’s most powerful CEO, Cyrus Mistry debuts at No. 15

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