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Innovation
and entrepreneurship
Syamal Gupta,
director, Tata Sons, explores the significance of
innovation and the role entrepreneurship plays in
enabling innovations |
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Getting
started on business ethics
Best practices in corporate
governance can only emerge when informed by an established
set of business principles and a defined approach
towards organisational behaviour, says management
consultant Anil Chopra |
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Mantras
for emerging markets
Alan Rosling,
executive director of Tata Sons, explains the reasoning
behind his belief that China and India will emerge
as major global economies in the coming 20 years
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Unshackling
rural markets
R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director, Tata
Sons, explores the role of government and industry
in unleashing the true potential of India's vast
rural sector |
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Insaaniyat
R. Gopalakrishnan
shares his view on India's experience in balancing
growth, entrepreneurship and social justice |
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Scylla and Charybdis: The business of business
What makes a good enterprise
a great one? R. Gopalakrishnan speaks of
the integral role of corporate responsibility in
a world obsessed with topline and bottomline growth |
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Leadership
— Some ethical challenges
R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director, Tata
Sons, explores what it means to don the mantle of
leadership, the responsibilities and pitfalls |
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The leadership challenge: direction and destination
R. Gopalakrishnan,
executive director, Tata Sons, explains the need
for and importance of direction in today's business
leader |
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Do
bigha zameen
R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director,
Tata Sons, traces the growth and progress of economies
and the growing importance of agricultural marketing
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Preparing for the future
Happiness is not a
destination, it is in fact, a companion along the
journey of life. In his speech on IIT-Mumbai's Foundation
Day, R. Gopalakrishnan shares some insights
on how to build and sustain a successful career |
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Disruption
and uncertainty: Knowing it is there but not knowing
what it is
R. Gopalakrishnan,
executive director, Tata Sons, breaks down the
concept of change in relation to today's business
scenario
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Sensitive
chaos
R. Gopalakrishnan,
executive director, Tata Sons, explains the managerial
view of how and why India works |
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Learning to live and living to learn
One must learn to manage
oneself well before one can manage others well,
says R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director,
Tata Sons |
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What
injures the hive injures the bee
R. Gopalakrishnan,
executive director, Tata Sons, shares his views
on the three Ps of business: productivity, progress
and people, and the importance of managing each
well |
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Making India Inc angry
R. Gopalakrishnan
dissects the challenge of making India the manufacturer
to the world from the managerial viewpoint
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The
quest for ‘sustainable’ business
Sustainable development
cannot be achieved by a single enterprise — or by
the entire business community — in isolation, argues
Syamal Gupta, the chairman of Tata International.
It is a pervasive philosophy to which every stakeholder
in society and participant in the global economy
must willingly subscribe |
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The
people principle
Dr Wayne Brockbank,
professor of business at the University of Michigan
Business School, explains the ‘why, what and how’
of human resource strategy, and where companies
can make the greatest gains |
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Marketing
is the business of business
R. Gopalakrishnan,
executive director, Tata Sons, shares some wisdom
on the ways of the market and sheds some light on
how to soar in the sales sky |
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'It
is time to liberalise labour legislation'
India’s labour laws
were intended to be friendly to employees, but they
have ended up being anti-employment, says T.
Damu, vice president of the Indian Hotels Company,
who adds that a holistic approach based on ‘welfare
economics’ is required to pave the road to reform |
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The
bald man’s comb
According to a Thai
saying, experience is a comb that nature gives to
man after he grows bald. As
R. Gopalakrishnan loses hair, he wants to share
his comb with the younger lot |
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Back
to school
The process of acquiring
knowledge never ceases in today’s age of constant
technological change and global integration. Syamal
Gupta, the chairman of Tata International, stresses
the need for modern professionals to see and pursue
learning as a lifelong process |
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The
great job hunt
The principal objective
of governments in the developing world has to be
the generation of employment, says
Dr Nirmal Jain, the managing director of
Tata Infotech, who contends that this can be achieved
by encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation and
business expansion |
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In
search of the new voyagers
S. Ramadorai,
the CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, articulates
what it will take for India’s software industry
to make the transition from low-end players to high
fliers |
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Labouring
to exhale
India’s antiquated
labour laws have undermined its competitiveness
on the global industry stage. Jamshed J. Irani,
director, Tata Sons, argues that changes are not
just necessary but essential for the country’s
entrepreneurial efforts to come good in the new
world economic order |
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Standing
out, standing apart
The JRD QV Award
is the pinnacle of an in-house process that recognises
and rewards business excellence among Tata Group
companies. In this address at the latest edition
of the awards function, Group Chairman Ratan
Tata celebrates the blossoming of an idea whose
time had truly come |
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The risky side
of auditing
H. R. Khusrokhan,
managing director of Tata Tea, explains what it
takes to be a good internal auditor in a world of
constant change |
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