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| From
soaps to IT |
 Azim
Premji, chairman and managing director, Wipro Ltd,
is the richest Indian and one of the few to have successfully
diversified from an inherited vegetable oils and soaps
business to an extremely successful global IT venture. |
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| Steering
Indian auto components in to world markets |
 With
his uncompromisng emphasis on quality, Baba Kalyani has
elevated 'made in India' in to a respectable benchmark |
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| HP's
merger queen |
 After
joining HP in July 1999, Fiorina led the reinvention
of the company many associate with the birth of Silicon
Valley, returning HP to its roots of innovation and inventiveness.
Fiorina successfully led HP's controversial merger with
Compaq Computer Corp, now recognised as the most successful
high-tech merger in history. |
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| "The
'I' in every Indian must stand for innovation" |
 Considered
India's foremost technocrat, R A Mashelkar is the
director general of the premier Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR), the largest chain of industrial
research and development institutions in the world with
38 laboratories and 22,000 employees. |
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| Nurturing
Indian software talent |
 Starting
his career with the Canadian General Electric Company,
Kohli then worked with Ebasco International Corporation,
the New York Connecticut Valley Power Exchange, and New
England Power System, Boston, where he trained in Power
System Operation Planning. |
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| Leadership
genius |
 His
extraordinary leadership skills in promoting the cult
of innovation at GE transformed Jack Welch, former CEO,
General Electric, in to an iconic management figure |
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| The
change agent of Tata Steel |
 Dr.
Irani began his career in 1963 as Senior Scientific
Officer at BISRA, Sheffield. In 1968 he joined The Tata
Iron and Steel Company Ltd (TISCO) as assistant to director,
Research & Development. |
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| New
face of Indian retail |
 Biyani,
45, is CEO, Future Group, which is designed to cater to
the entire Indian consumption space. After graduating
in commerce, Biyani joined the family textiles business.
Five years later he launched the first branded ready-made
trouser, called Pantaloon, marketed through The Pantaloon
Shoppe. |
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| Reinventing
IBM |
 Louis
V Gerstner, Jr, was chairman of the board of IBM Corporation
from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002.
He served as chief executive officer of IBM from 1993
until March 2002. |
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| The branding strategist |
 He
is CEO of VentureRepublic, the leading strategic advisory
firm on branding based in Singapore and Copenhagen. A
thought-leader on branding driven by tremendous experience
and insights, Roll facilitates business leaders
and organisations of Fortune 500 companies to think
bold for future strategies. |
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| A
tough life at the Planning Commission |
 There's
no question that Montek Singh Ahluwalia brought
life to Yojana Bhavan when he became deputy chairman of
the Planning Commission. |
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| First
lady of finance |
 Kidwai
is chief executive officer, HSBC India, and country head,
HSBC Group Companies in India. Prior to this she was deputy
CEO, HSBC, and managing director and vice chairman of
HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India Private Limited. |
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| Quest
for excellence |
 On
his 60th birthday on 20 August 2006, N R Narayana Murthy
will retire as chairman of Infosys Technologies, a company
he co founded in Bangalore back in 1981 along with six
other software engineers. |
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| The
master strategist |
 Kumar
Mangalam Birla, 39, is particularly known for his
global ambitions — and successes. When he took over
as chairman in 1995, the Aditya Birla Group was already
present in the Far East (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia
and the Philippines) and Egypt, apart from being among
the top three business groups in India. |
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| Tending
it like a Tata |
 Barely
a decade and a half ago, when Ratan Tata took over
as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata
Group, people in the markets and in management circles
dismissed him as a person of no consequence. |
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| Leadership in crisis |
 Giuliani's
book, Leadership, was published in October 2002.
It became an immediate bestseller, spending 25 weeks on
the New York Times Bestseller List, including five
weeks at number 1. |
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|
An earnest entrepreneur |
 Sunil
Bharti Mittal, chairman of the Bharti group of industries
is a man who thinks big and talks straight. The door of
the conference room of his Dehli office is inscribed in
capital letters with the words 'sultanate 1.' That's thinking
big for you. |
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| In
quest of excellence |
 Peters
and Bob Waterman co-authored In Search of Excellence
in 1982, which was named by NPR (in 1999) as one of the
"Top Three Business Books of the Century," and
ranked as the "greatest business book of all time"
in a poll by Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing (2002). |
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| The
king of good times |
 In
1990, Mallya led the restructuring of The UB Group,
retaining only the areas of core competence, transforming
the vastly diversified UB conglomerate into a handful
of key operating businesses that dramatically increased
shareholder value. |
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| Voyager
on the milky way |
| As chairman of NDDB Dr Kurien's
major engagement was with Operation
Flood, a spectacularly successful multipurpose programme
that created a flood of milk that turned a scarcity into
a surplus, popularly known as the White Revolution. |
