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3 Ratan Tata - The Paragon

of Indian Industry

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Ratan Tata was born in Mumbai into a Parsi Zoroastrian family
on 28 December, 1937. He was the son of Naval Tata, but was

adopted by Ratanji Tata, son of Jamshedji Tata, the founder
of the Tata Group. Ratan Tata was closer to JRD Tata than

to his father, Naval Tata. And he was particularly fond of his
grandmother, Navajbai.

Ratan Tata went to school at
Campion upto 9th standard, and

then at the Cathedral and John
Connon School, then in Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and the
Riverdale Country School in New York City where he graduated

in the year 1955. In 1959, he graduated from Cornell University
and trained as an engineer and architect. In 1962, Ratan Tata

joined the Tata Group, after working for multiple companies.
He first joined as an assistant in Tata Industries; later in the year

he spent six months training at Tata Motors.

In 1963, he moved to Tata Iron and Steel company at Jamshedpur
for a training programme. In 1970, he joined Tata Consultancy

Services, a software firm, for a short stint. He then went on to join the board of Tata Sons as
a director. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in
1975.

Ratan Tata became the chairman of Tata Industries, where he took the responsibility of

transforming it into a group think tank in order to promote new ventures.

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