IIM Calcutta & Tata Chemicals Win Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008

IIM Calcutta & Tata Chemicals Win Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008

Mr. Satish Pradhan, Executive Vice President, Tata Sons Ltd., said, "TBLA is the most eagerly anticipated competitions in the Indian business school arena. This year, we have extended the competition to the employees of the Tata group. It gives them

opportunities to sharpen their business acumen and interact face-to-face with the senior management and the Chairman of the Group. Also, it is an initiative to unify the talent pool of the Tata Group across companies and geographies and focus on innovation, leadership and achieving excellence."

On winning the Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008 trophy, Amit Mehta from IIM Calcutta, said, "Having the opportunity to showcase our ideas to the senior management and receive the award from legend like Ratan Tata, himself was an experience I'll never forget. What moved me the most was that the senior leadership of the Tata Group was there, not just to evaluate but to help us develop our ideas further. It was a thrilling experience to receive inputs on what can be done with the endeavour we had in mind!'

The participating teams came up a gamut of interesting of business ideas ranging from public water management for the metro cities across the world to global fast food chain of Indian cuisine. Acquiring a Chinese jewellery retail chain and bringing solar power to the world were also some of the proposed business opportunities for the Tata Group. The Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008 culminated with the awards function at Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai.

The Tata Business Leadership Awards is conducted by the TAS, a premier recruiter at Indian business schools. TAS has been the flagship recruitment programme for the Tata Group aimed at developing young leaders for the Tata Group for the past 50 years.

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Contributed by -
Suresh Rangarajan / Asha Bajpai / Siddharth Patkar,
Vaishnavi Corporate Communications.

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