Entrepreneurship in India
This is a selection of resources on entrepreneurship available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
This anthology collects excerpts from the finest business books published by Penguin Portfolio, featuring snippets from the lives of some of the most eminent business leaders India has seen—M.S. Oberoi, Ratan Tata, Aditya Birla and Rahul Bajaj, among others. Here are tales of outstanding successes, crushing failures, extraordinary challenges and relentless determination, chronicling the times when these legends were simple businessmen making their mark. The grit and ruthless persistence of these men defined who they were and the legacies they left behind.
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The LIC story: Making of India’s best-known brand
This is an account of an extraordinary organisation through the eyes of Kamalji Sahay who joined LIC as a young professional in 1977 and saw it sail through choppy waters for three decades as their Executive Director. It covers the details of the most significant events, people and operational dynamics across the remotest offices to the headquarters of LIC. Full of interesting anecdotes, The LIC Story takes us on a fascinating ride into this mighty organisation from an insider’s perspective.
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Guru: A long walk to success: An autobiography
This autobiography traces four decades in the life of Guru Bhai Narendra Raval. The astute businessman, featured in the Forbes Africa 2015 list, successfully built a US$400 million industrial empire, but began his work life as a young teenage priest in Nairobi, Kenya. Today, Guru Bhai runs his business empire with more than 4,500 employees spread across East Africa. This is a legacy of wisdom and guidance, inspiring young entrepreneurs to walk in Guru Bhai’s footsteps.
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The reluctant billionaire: How Dilip Shanghvi became the richest self-made Indian
This is the untold story of an enterprise and its creator, Dilip Shanghvi, who became the richest self-made Indian in March 2015. Uncover the riveting story of the fiercely intense personality lying beneath his calm demeanour. Interviews with over 150 friends and associates trace his transformation from a quiet, curious child working in his father’s small wholesale shop to an astute strategist who built India’s largest pharmaceutical company - Sun Pharma - despite being untrained in science.
All rights reserved, India: Penguin Random House, 2019.
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