000			01637 a2200205 4500
003			OSt
020			_a9780143415831
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a658.1 _bP664b
100			_aPiramal, Gita
245			_aBusiness maharajas _cGita Piramal
260			_bPortfolio (Penguin) _c1996 _aGurugram
300			_axxii, 474p
500			_aDhirubhai Ambani, Rahul Bajaj, Aditya Birla, R.P. Goenka, Brij Mohan Khaitan, Bharat and Vijay Shah and Ratan Tata
520			_aThe inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.
650			_aBusinesspeople -- India -- Biography
650			_aEntrepreneurship -- India
942			_cBK
999			_c567268 _d567268