One of the most widely recognized names amongst entrepreneurs in India, Mukesh Ambani is synonymous with an entrepreneurial spirit, ambition, and drive. He is the Chairman, Managing Director, and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). In 2021, he was recognized as the 10th richest person in the world. After dropping out of Stanford to help his father grow Reliance, Mukesh has been instrumental in expanding the footprint of Reliance from petrochemicals to telecommunications, making Reliance today a giant in the Indian business ecosystem.
The biography of Dhirubhai Ambani is truly India's rags to riches story. He was a man of great vision. He showed a great temperament for business and made exponential growth exploiting every single opportunity. His phenomenal rise in the Indian industry has been one of the mostremarkable events in the Indian Business' history. He was awarded the Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century and was regarded as the greatest creator of wealth. The students of management schools many like to draw lessons from the life of this matriculate with great vision and business acumen. The inside pages contain an interesting and elevating story of how a poor village boy rose to become the legendary figure in the history of business what the wellestablished corporate houses of India with abundant resources could not achieve over a period of a century.
Dhirubhai Ambani's life is a rags-to-riches story, from Bombay's crowded pavements and bazaars to the city's extravagantly wealthy social circles where business tycoons, stockmarket speculators, smugglers, politicians and Hindi film stars mingle, make money, make and break marriages and carry out prolonged feuds. This is the story of a rising capitalist group in post-independence India. Until the arrival of Ambani, and now more like him, India's big business scene was dominated by a few industrial houses from British times. Ambani's Reliance group has risen to rival these houses in just 26 years since its foundation. By 1995, the group had 2.6 million investors, one in every eight Indian sharemarket investors, and is now so large that it has to hold its annual general meetings in football stadiums. Along with expansion, however, have come the intricate political connections, a whole raft of corruption charges and a rollercoaster of booms and crashes for Ambani and his company. This study shows how capitalism emerges by fair means and foul in the new industrial countries of the Third World and explores the life of an Asian tycoon.
This is an important biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of India’s biggest business house, Reliance. He was born in Gujarat, started his business in Mumbai, and was very successful in all his ventures. He used the method of backward integration to fulfil all his dreams and turned them into a reality. His success helped India and it had a major impact on India’s industrial growth. Dhirubhai Ambani can be quoted as an example of ‘self-made man’. If a person who did not have any prior experience or proper guidance has over- come every obstacle that life has thrown on his way and reached the pinnacle, then there must be many lessons that could be learnt from his life. This book analyzes and presents these lessons in a highly coherent style.
Hamish McDonald is Asia-Pacific Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has been a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and New Delhi, where he was bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has twice won Walkley awards, and has had a report on Burma read into the record of the US Congress. He is the author of books on Indonesia and India, and was made an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2008.
Did Dhirubhai Ambani know about the tensions between his two sons, Mukesh and Anil? Did the patriarch merge RIL and Reliance Petroleum to prevent a future split in the Reliance group? What were the reasons for the frenetic growth of the Ambanis in just about three decades and the subsequent division in less than three years after Dhirubhai's death? What were Dhirubhai's traits that kept the Ambani family together? What were the differences in Mukesh's and Anil's personalities that led to their falling apart? Did mother Kokilaben play a role in bringing about a 'truce' between her two sons? How was the war between Mukesh and Anil fought? Why does the fight continue today even after the 'truce' between the two brothers? A blow-by-blow account of the Ambani saga by noted business journalist Alam Srinivas, who has tracked the Reliance group for twenty years.
There is a famous saying by the great Irish writer and poet, Oscar Wilde that "e;Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."e;These people who spread their influence and happiness like the brightness of sunshine on others, wherever they are under whichever circumstances they are, are called 'The Great Personalities'. Here we present more than 250 such great men in the book, Great Personality of the world with their lives, works, achievements, contributions, awards, and also the trivia and failure attached to their lives making it a unique encyclopedia of many legendary figures from across the globe.The book contains all about popular actors, such as Amitabh Bachchan, Elizabeth, Tylor, Marilyn Monroe, Raj Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Tom Cruise, and many more. There are interesting life histories of more than 50 Renowed artists including names, such as Leo Tolstoy, Michelangelo, M.F. Hussain, Leonardo Da Vinci, Van Gogh, etc.In additional to the above, the book also has exhaustive life histories of great entrepreneurs like Dhirubhai Ambani, G.D.Birla, J.R.D.TATA, Bill Gates, Operah Winfrey, etc.You can also enrich your knowledge by knowing all about the great historians the legendry musicians the world famous scientists, inventors, physicians and politicians, who made their marks In their lives, created history and inspire us even today. #v&spublishers
Revered as a role model for generations of women, Indra Nooyi has consistently ranked amongst the world’s 100 most powerful women. An alumna of the Indian Institute of Management (Kolkata) and Yale School of Management, she has held positions at Johnson & Johnson, Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, Asea Brown Boveri. The former Chairperson and the Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo. was with the company for nearly 12 years before being named its CEO. With numerous awards and accolades to her name, including Best CEO awards, she was included in the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2021.
