WORKING PAPER: 06-03 Mar. 2006 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure by Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi XLRI‚ Jamshedpur 831001‚ India E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Last updated in Feb. 2008 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=889394 XLRI Working Paper: 06-03 2 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure1 Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Abstract Complex ownership structures
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Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India. It encompasses seven business sectors: * Communications and information technology * Engineering * Materials * Services * Energy * Consumer products * Chemicals. Tata Group was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company. It has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents. Tata Group has over 100 operating companies each of them operates independently
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famous for being beyond complex‚ is a subject which cannot be explained with ease. Stephen Hawking‚ the most famous living scientist today‚ wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988‚ updated in 1996‚ in order to take upon this daunting task of explaining basic theoretical physics to a population who had previously barely studied any science. Within A Brief History of Time‚ Hawking touches upon seven topics in-depth while easily explaining them in a simple manner: our picture of the universe‚ space and time
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A Brief History of the French Baguette REVOLUTION‚ NAPOLEON AND FRENCH BREAD The Evolution and History of French Bread In 1788 and 1789‚ speculation in the movement‚ storage and sale of grains combined with adverse weather conditions led to a severe bread shortage throughout France. Prices for this staple increased beyond affordability‚ especially for the poor and peasant classes. While the rich had plenty of fine bread made from pure white flour‚ the poor either starved or subsisted on an inferior
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sustainability. Besides‚ we can recognize how a company connects its stakeholders in the sustainability reporting process in order to evaluate A+ against GRI criterion. In this case‚ we will critically evaluate the Corporate Sustainability Report 2012-13 of Tata Motors Limited. 2. DEFINITION‚ DEVELOPMENT AND FORMATION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE (GRI) 2.1. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) Corporate Social Responsibility is a general organization concept so it has
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ABOUT INDUSTRY: BRIEF History Tata Sky is set to revolutionize television viewing in India through its superior digital quality picture and sound. The service aims to empower the Indian viewer with Choice‚ Control and Convenience through its wide array of programming choices and interactive features. Tata Sky offers viewers a variety of channels ranging from entertainment‚ sports‚ movies and music to news and documentaries in DVD quality picture and CD quality sound. Tata Sky has established
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cheapest car in the world by TATA Company name “TATA NANO”. The objective of this research proposal is to find out an opportunity or a problem in the launch of the smallest /cheapest car targeting masses through secondary information / data. Also to gain knowledge about how TATA brought this new product i.e.‚ “NANO” up to the development stage and finally going to launch it on 23rd March‚ 2008 (already launched till now). During this project I researched on how TATA developed NANO costing Rupees1
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SYNOPSIS The case illustrates the opportunities‚ challenges and trade-offs involved in the design‚ prototyping and marketing of the Nano — the so-called people’s car — by Tata Motors Ltd. (TML)‚ a Tata Group company. The case takes place nine months after the company’s chairman‚ Ratan Tata‚ launched the Nano‚ on January 10‚ 2008‚ at the 9th Auto Expo in Pragati Maidan‚ an exhibition center in New Delhi‚ India. The case asks students to take the position of Ravi Kant‚
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Brief History of the English Language OLD ENGLISH 5th Century ---three Germanic tribes ----the Angles‚ Saxons‚ and Jutes arrived in the British Isles. The Angles were named from ENGLE‚ their land of origin. Their language was called ENGLISC from which the word‚ English is derived. The Angles‚ Saxons‚ and Jutes became known as the Anglo-Saxons. The Angles‚ Saxons‚ and Jutes became known as the Anglo-Saxons. Some words such as church‚ bishop‚ baptism‚ monk‚ eucharis‚ and presbyter came indirectly
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SHAKY START Left to himself‚ Ratan Tata would probably have stayed on in the United States after training as an architect at Cornell University. But the son of deputy group chairman Naval Tata and the nephew of JRD Tata couldn’t be allowed to work outside the group (he had an offer from IBM). In 1962‚ Ratan joined the family business‚ working on the Tata Steel shopfloor at Jamshedpur‚ just one of several thousand employees. He got his first independent assignment less than a decade later --
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