RATAN TATA
the soft-spoken man of steel
Overview




Introduction
Success Story
Transformation Agenda
Awards & Recognition
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.
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
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.
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
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
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)
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
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).
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.
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
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
Thank You