Leaders

“Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind” are the great words of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani. Born to Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani on 4th June 1959, Anil Ambani owns the ADA Group and is currently the fourth richest Indian in the world. A true go getter, Anil Ambani received his Bachelors in Science [...]

Shantanu Narayen born and educated in Hyderabad, India is now a US citizen, heading Adobe and living in Palo Alto, CA. He is also on the Board of Dell, Inc., Metavante Technologies, Inc. and the Advisory Board of the HAAS School of Business, UC. He is also the President of the Board of Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. In 2009, Shantanu earned $6.6 million. Shantanu [...]

Nitin Nohria is a 10-pointer. For those of you not familiar with that, it means that he graduated at the top of his class with a perfect GPA. He did it at the hyper-competitive IIT Mumbai, and graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Mix that with a Ph.D. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, where he earned a doctoral thesis award [...]

India-born cola queen Indra Nooyi has topped the list of world’s 50 top business women compiled by the Financial Times, which also?features three Indians — Britannia’s Vinita Bali, Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and HT Media’s Shobhana Bhartia. Nooyi, the Chairman and Chief Executive of beverages and soft drinks major Pepsico, is followed by US-based Avon Products’ [...]