Ratan Tata retires on his 75th birthday this week‚ handing over the baton of his business to Cyrus Mistry‚ the first chief appointed from outside the immediate Tata family in its 144-year history. While Ratan Tata has been credited with transforming the Tata group into a streamlined conglomerate of more than 100 companies and earning a global reputation for his consolidation and expansion strategies‚ I am looking at his leadership traits and how those traits influenced the group and made him the
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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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Tata DoCoMo This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links. (May 2012) Tata DoCoMo Limited Tata DoCoMo Logo Type Joint venture Industry Telecommunications Founded November 2008 Headquarters New Delhi‚ India Area served India Services Mobile network‚ Fixed Wireless Telephone‚ USB Internet Dongle Parent Tata Teleservices
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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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LEADERSHIP QUALITIY OF RATAN TATA RATAN TATA (born December28‚ 1937 in Mumbai) is the present chairman of the Tata Group India largest conglomerate established by earlier generation of his family. PERSONALITY • Very dignified •Ethical •Dependable •Believes in keeping promise •Loyal and believes in relationship •Questioning the unquestionable • Risk taker not a speculator • Employ leadership quantities and a tremendous m motivator Motivation RATAN TATA must always keep motivating
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Promotion Mix • Personal Selling‚ Product‚ Sales Promotion The promotion mix was great going into the 21st century. There is not much personal selling in Krispy Kreme. Instead‚ customers come in with the brand awareness of the doughnuts. The store emphasizes its original glazed doughnuts but other than that not much personal selling goes on. Product giveaways are held at grand openings to improve knowledge of Krispy Kreme products. On certain occasions Krispy Kreme sells a special flavored doughnut
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1. Cultural and political issues can affect Tata Motor’s Nano car. Cultural issues such as differences in languages‚ customs‚ and social issue can contribute either positively or negatively towards the Nano car. Tata Motor’s has to learn all of the legal ramifications in each country they plan to sell their car. For instance‚ just because the Nano meets the safety requirements in India does not mean it will pass the safety requirements of another because that culture may have stricter standards
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RATAN TATA One of the most well-known and respected industrialists in India‚ Ratan Tata (Ratan Naval Tata)‚ is the Chairman of the salt to software conglomerate‚ Tata Group which is based in India and comprising 98 operating companies in seven business sectors across 80 countries. Ratan Tata was born to Soonoo & Naval Hormusji Tata on December 28‚ 1937. He was brought up their grandmother Lady Navajbai after his mother moved out following a troubled marriage. He studied at the Campion School in Mumbai
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biggest conglomerate – Tata Group. Ratan Tata joined the company after college and took over his late uncle’s business 16 years ago. He is involved in more issues than he should be. The authoritarian Tata is the chairman of key units including Tata Motors and Tata Steel and is involved in all major deals and making all the key decision. 2. SECONDARY PROBLEMS 2.1 Short Term A bid for Jaguar and Land Rover might present an even more daunting challenge for Ratan Tata. It would be an uphill climb
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Tata Iron and Steel Company was established by Dorabji Tata on August 25‚ 1907‚ as part of his father Jamsetji’sTata Group.[11][12][13] By 1939 it operated the largest steel plant in the British Empire. The company launched a major modernization and expansion program in 1951. Later‚ the program was upgraded to 2 MTPA project. In 1990‚ it started expansion plan and established its subsidiary Tata Inc. in New York. The company changed its name from TISCO to Tata Steel in 2005.[14] In August 2004‚
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