Ppt on leaderships (Ratan Tata)

1. R ATA N TATA
T H E S O F T- S P O K E N M A N O F
S T E E L

2. OVERVIEW
•Introduction
•Success Story
•Transformation Agenda
•Awards & Recognition

3. INTRODUCTION
• Born on December 28, 1937
• Graduated with a degree in Architecture and Structural
Engineering from Cornell University.
• Also completed advanced management programme at
Harvard Business School.
• Appointed the Director-in-Charge of The National Radio
& Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971.
• Became the Chairman of Tata Industries in 1981.
• Took over as Tata Group Chairman in 1991.

4. SUCCESS STORY
• 1962: Graduated from Cornell University
with a Bachelor of Science degree
in Architecture and Structural
Engineering.
Worked with Jones and Emmons in
Los Angeles
Joined Tata Steel at Jamshedpur in late 1962

5. SUCCESS STORY – (CNTD)
1971: Appointed the Director-in-Charge of The National
Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco)
1977: Was entrusted with Empress Mills, textile mill
controlled by the Tata’s
1981: Appointed as The Chairman of Tata Industries
1991: Took over as group chairman
from J.R.D. Tata.

6. SUCCESS STORY – (CNTD)
• 1998: Tata Motors came up with Tata Indica, the first truly
Indian car.
2000: Tata Tea acquired the Tetley group of the UK for
pounds 271 million ($435 million) - the biggest
acquisition in the history of Indian Companies.
2003: Stepped down from executive position.
Bought the truck unit of South Korea's Daewoo
Motors
A stake in one of Indonesia's biggest coal mines,
and
steel mills in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

7. SUCCESS STORY – (CNTD)
2004: Takeover of Tony hotels including New York's Pierre,
the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, and San Francisco's Camden
Place.
Purchase of Tyco International's undersea
telecom cables.
2007: Tata Sons successfully acquired Corus Group
for an estimated £6.7 billion.
“A defining moment for Tata Steel” – Tata said

8. THE MAN AND HIS DREAM MACHINE
• Year 2008:
• “A promise is a promise”,
said Ratan Tata unveiling the
'People's Car'
a mini 4-seater priced, as
promised five years ago, at
Rs 1,00,000 (dealer price)

9. THE MAN AND HIS DREAM MACHINE –
(CNTD)
 Nano—which means small in Parsi-
Gujarati—turns out to be a font of
innovation, generating as many as 40 new
patents for Tata Motors

10. SO WHAT IF THE KOHINOOR DIAMOND - ONCE
THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF INDIAN WEALTH AND
POWER - NOW RESIDES WITH THE QUEEN OF
ENGLAND?
March 2008:
Tata Motors under Ratan Tata bought
over Jaguar & Land Rover from Ford
Motor Company. The icons of British
Luxury, Jaguar and Land Rover were
acquired for £1.15 billion ($2.3 billion).

11. THE TRANSFORMATION AGENDA...
Returns must be greater than cost of capital.
 Economies of scale should be derived.
Each company must be the industry leader
occupying one of the top three positions.
The business identified must have potential
for high growth and should be globally competitive.

12. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
• He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan –
26 January 2000
• He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan - 26
January 2008
• Recipients of the NASSCOM Global Leadership
Awards-2008
• Accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in
2007 on behalf of the Tata family
• Honoured by Cornell University as the 26th
Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education –
March 2006
• Serves on the programme board of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative

13. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
– (CNTD)
• May 2008, he made it to the Time magazine's 2008 list of the
World's 100 most Influential people.
• The Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok conferred the
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology (Honoris Causa) in
2004
• His foreign affiliations include membership of the international
advisory boards of
* The Mitsubishi Corporation
* The American International Group
* JP Morgan Chase
* Booz Allen Hamilton
.

14. Thank You