The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India, had been warned about the possibility of a terrorist attack before a 60-hour rampage began Wednesday, leaving at least 183 people dead, the chairman of the company that owns the hotel said Saturday.
Fareed Zakaria, host, Global Public Square: Ratan Tata is the chairman of the Taj Group of hotels, and also the Tata Group -- the largest private corporate group in India. It has interests in steel, cars, communications, computer technology, power -- and, of course, hotels. Their revenues last year were $62.5 billion.
Johnson Electric, Grupo Bimbo and Larsen & Turbo probably don't ring a bell in the United States, but American corporations better pay close attention to these fast-growing global rivals.
India is fast becoming known as a nation of outstanding entrepreneurs like IT tycoon N. R. Narayana Murthy. Now, according to new survey of Indian business schools, many others are keen to follow this example.
India's Tata Group is interested in acquiring Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover brands, the Indian conglomerate's chairman Ratan Tata said in remarks released on Friday.
It would be easy to imagine Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to Reno. Across the street from an Army Reserve center and next to a farm, a customer-service call center hums, its 250 workers answering phones for online travel agency Expedia. The center's owner? Indian conglomerate Tata Group.
Watch out for more big takeover bids from India's increasingly confident companies after Tata Steel's $12.1 billion victory in its battle with CSN of Brazil for control of Corus, the British steel ...
The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India, had been warned about the possibility of a terrorist attack before a 60-hour rampage began Wednesday, leaving at least 183 people dead, the chairman of the company that owns the hotel said Saturday.
Fareed Zakaria, host, Global Public Square: Ratan Tata is the chairman of the Taj Group of hotels, and also the Tata Group -- the largest private corporate group in India. It has interests in steel, cars, communications, computer technology, power -- and, of course, hotels. Their revenues last year were $62.5 billion.
Johnson Electric, Grupo Bimbo and Larsen & Turbo probably don't ring a bell in the United States, but American corporations better pay close attention to these fast-growing global rivals.
India is fast becoming known as a nation of outstanding entrepreneurs like IT tycoon N. R. Narayana Murthy. Now, according to new survey of Indian business schools, many others are keen to follow this example.
India's Tata Group is interested in acquiring Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover brands, the Indian conglomerate's chairman Ratan Tata said in remarks released on Friday.
It would be easy to imagine Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to Reno. Across the street from an Army Reserve center and next to a farm, a customer-service call center hums, its 250 workers answering phones for online travel agency Expedia. The center's owner? Indian conglomerate Tata Group.
Watch out for more big takeover bids from India's increasingly confident companies after Tata Steel's $12.1 billion victory in its battle with CSN of Brazil for control of Corus, the British steel ...
Nearly half of U.S. IT jobs involve the upkeep and maintenance of computers - a sector previously thought to be safe from offshoring. But technological change is sweeping the industry, and soon the servers that host your favorite websites or run your online banking could be run from halfway around the world.
Some time between 2008 and 2010, annual export revenues from India's information technology (IT) sector are predicted to hit $50 billion, up from $16.3 billion this year.
India's biggest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services, has raised $1.2 billion in the country's largest initial public offering outside the state-owned sector.
From afar, India may still seem like a ''functioning anarchy,'' as former U.S. ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith once described it. But it does have capable managers and aggressive entrepreneurs, a...
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