It was the year of 2003. Ratan Tata was returning home from his corporate office. A drizzle was on. Suddenly from his car window he saw a middle class family of a man, wife and two children loaded on a scooter driving by. They were wet and the human pile up was precariously balanced while […]

The big question in the minds of corporate people is ‘Who after Ratan Tata?’ Who will take charge of the Tata Empire? Ratan Tata has not married and he won’t be leaving behind any natural heir. So far, it has been some Tata, one of the family that has been heading the Tata Group. One

When it became clear that Anglo-Dutch giant ‘Corus Steel Plant’ was going for sale several of world’s big steel players joined the hunt to get it. These were a lot of heavy weight steel industrialists and companies. Ratan Tata was also there but he was not being taken seriously. The steel big-wigs of the world

One distinct quality of Ratan Tata that sets him apart from other industrialists is his will of steel. He sticks to his stand firmly if he is convinced that his stand is morally correct. To prove this point some episodes are revealing and are cited below :During the strike at Pune Tata Motors Plant some

All those who have some knowledge of the business world are familiar with the fact that one hundred year old Tata House of Business never shirked from its responsibilities in social concerns. The doyens of Tatas were particulary conscious about it and their successive descendents carried forward that spirit like the soul of their endeavour.

Soon after his return from USA Ratan Tata made entry into the Industrial empire of the family.It was not a razzle-dazzle affair but more like a low level new employee joining duty. His uncle JRD Tata was the Chairman of the Group. When JRD had joined the Group he had worked many years as unsalaried

I am sure having illustrated the background of the Tata Group and predecessors connected to it the readers will be able to understand the actual role and contribution of Ratan Naval Tata to the growth and expansion or diversification of his industrial house. The legacy that Ratan Tata inherited was founded by Jamshedji whose father

JRD Tata was another legend of Tata tradition. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata was born on July 29, 1904. He was the son of Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, the cousin brother of Jamshedji Tata. But in Tata Industries the contribution of JRD was enormous. He played a major role in taking Tata Industrial Empire to new heights.

Naval Tata was born in August 1904. It was the year when Jamshedji Tata died. Luck played a big part in the destiny of Naval Tata. His father Hormusji Tata died when Naval was yet a youngster. Naval fell on bad days. Pecuniary forced him to carry on his education with the help provided by

The founder of Tata industrial empire, Jamshedji Tata had two able sons in Dorabji Tata and Sir Ratan Tata who inherited his legacy. Sir Dorabji was elder son. He received unstinted cooperation of his younger brother Sir Ratan Tata and capable guidance and assistance from his uncle Jahangir Ratan Dadabhai Tata. The three took good

A very strong presence of Tata family has been in India for almost eight hundred years. The family history reveals that earlier Tatas used to serve as priests or worked in the fields of education. In the Persian society Tatas had the same status as Vedic brahmins had in Aryan society. But later Tata family

With great commit-ment, dedication, talent, farsightedness and innovative thoughts Ratan Tata is today leading Tata Industries, a family legacy crossing ever new milestones. Because of his revolutionary successes in automobile industry he is being called ‘Henry Ford of India’. On the occasion of 2008 Republic Day celebrations, Ratan Tata was awarded ‘Padma Bhushana’, India’s second