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Ratan Tata States Universities In India Must Be Given More Freedom To Operate

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Ratan Tata

  • Chairman, Tata Trust
  • male
  • Asian
  • 1937 (Age: 87 years old)
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Biography

Ratan Tata is the chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, India's largest and most successful business conglomerate. Under Tata's leadership, total revenues of the Tata Group have increased more than sixfold, to over $22 billion this year(2006).

The Tata Group now has over 90 operating companies, employing about 220,000 people in seven business sectors. It operates in more than 40 countries and exports to 140. Some of its biggest holdings are Tata Steel, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India's pre-eminent hotel chain, and Tata Motors, an automobile manufacturer whose products include the first car designed in India. The family business began as a textile mill, launched under British colonial rule in 1860 by Tata's great-grandfather. Tata joined the Tata steel division in 1962 and became chairman of the conglomerate in 1991.

Tata earned a bachelor of architecture degree at Cornell University in 1962 and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1974-75.

What I'm about to say is probably a little explosive but I think the only way this could happen successfully is that the government must stay away from higher education or scientific education. There is regrettably a little too much interference from the government to conform to various requirement...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 10 Ratan Tata Shares Background On The Tata Trust
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
  • Ratan Tata
  • 1 min. 48 sec.
Video 2 of 10 Ratan Tata Discusses Decision To Provide For Employees
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 2 min. 19 sec.
Video 3 of 10 Ratan Tata Shares Thoughts on Corporate Governance In The US
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
  • Ratan Tata
  • 1 min. 2 sec.
Video 4 of 10 Ratan Tata Discusses Challenges Being Faced in India Regarding Opportunities For All People Regardless of Background
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 1 min. 59 sec.
Video 5 of 10 Ratan Tata States Importance of Leading By Example
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 1 min. 28 sec.
Video 6 of 10 Ratan Tata Discusses Importance of Encouraging Students and Professionals To Return to India
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 1 min. 31 sec.
Video 7 of 10 Ratan Tata States Great Potential of China and India
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 1 min. 47 sec.
Video 8 of 10 Ratan Tata Discusses Positive Experience of Being Student At Cornell University
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
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  • 1 min. 22 sec.
Video 9 of 10 Ratan Tata Discusses Outsourcing Operations In India And Positive Impact They Have Had
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
  • Ratan Tata
  • 2 min. 5 sec.
Video 10 of 10 Ratan Tata States Universities In India Must Be Given More Freedom To Operate
  • Ratan Tata - Lecture - Tata Trust
  • 6/5/2009
  • Ratan Tata
  • 0 min. 44 sec.