Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2020

Abstract

After a lifetime as an academic, I was hired as Chief Strategy Officer (“CSO”) at Tata, a colossal $100 billion group with more than a hundred companies and 650,000 employees worldwide. At first sight, the job of being strategy head for the Tata Group may seem rather different from my academic role, with implementation responsibility and ability being the key difference. But, it did not require much of an adjustment for two reasons. First, I was not the typical academic. For twenty years, as an external consultant, I had been working with top executives and helping them think through their strategy. Second, my job was not to be responsible for execution.

Keywords

Strategic management, Tata

Discipline

International Business | Marketing | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Marketing

Publication

Human capital leadership insights: Solving human capital challenges from the business perspective

First Page

217

Last Page

221

ISBN

9789811477157

Publisher

Singapore Management University

City or Country

Singapore

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