Left to himself, Ratan Tata would have been working as an architect in the warm climate of Los?? Angeles. From being a reluctant apprentice, not knowing what to do on the shopfloor of Telco at Jamshedpur, thanks to several quirks of fate, he found himself heading the Tata group in 1991. When he took over the reins, the group had a great image but was not driven by a unified strategic vision. Tata gave the group a vision and went about restructuring it inside out, eve" />
Left to himself, Ratan Tata would have been working as an architect in the warm climate of Los?? Angeles. From being a reluctant apprentice, not knowing what to do on the shopfloor of Telco at Jamshedpur, thanks to several quirks of fate, he found himself heading the Tata group in 1991. When he took over the reins, the group had a great image but was not driven by a unified strategic vision. Tata gave the group a vision and went about restructuring it inside out, eve" />
Left to himself, Ratan Tata would have been working as an architect in the warm climate of Los?? Angeles. From being a reluctant apprentice, not knowing what to do on the shopfloor of Telco at Jamshedpur, thanks to several quirks of fate, he found himself heading the Tata group in 1991. When he took over the reins, the group had a great image but was not driven by a unified strategic vision. Tata gave the group a vision and went about restructuring it inside out, eve">
ML: Can you tell us a
little about your childhood and where you were born? RT: I was born in Mumbai, I
can’t remember when (laughs). I grew up in Tata House, which is now the
head office of Deutsche Bank; it was the house that my grandfather built but
never lived to see it completed. My grandmother lived there and my father lived
with her; so I grew up in that house. I went to...
