Ratan Tata, former Chairman of the Tata Group, has been credited with turning Tata from a largely India-centric company into a global business, with approximately 65% of revenues coming from...
========== [MUSIC]Ratan, thank you so much for joining us
today.It's an honor to speak with you.And I know I speak for many here in the
audience whenI say that we've been looking forwards to
this for quite some time.>> Thank you [INAUDIBLE].>> I wanted to start at the beginning of
your career.As the dean mentioned, you were educated
atCornell as an architect and a structural
engineer.And plan to spend the rest of your career
in the United States.But you returned to India starting on the
shop floor, and I wonder whatthat was like as a young man returning
from the United States to India?>> Well, quite frankly, it was, as much a
cultural shock.I'd been away for ten years and, things
had changed, thenyet they had not c...
