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Theatre of Operations: IT, Communications, Engineering, Materials, Chemicals, Services, Consumer Products, Energy - all with global footprints Did you know that: Upon graduating, he turned down an offer from IBM on the advice of JRD Tata Started his career with: Tata Steel, on the shopfloor Leadership style: Aloof and understated, but always on the ball Favourite Allies: His German Shepherds Famous Quote: "I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right" Thorn in his side: His connection with the 2G spectrum scam If he weren't leading a $71 billion conglomerate, he'd be: Flying planes Family: Brother Jimmy, half-brother Noel and three half-sisters
Latest project: Pouring $15 million into a project researching water as fuel
Exit Strategy: Cyrus Pallonji Mistry will take charge from December 2012 Farewell Note: This will be RNT's last appearance on CD's 'Most Powerful CEO' list
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Mukesh D. Ambani
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Chairman, Wipro
Started his career with: Wipro, whose reins he took after dropping out of Stanford at 21, following the sudden demise of his father (he completed his degree over 30 years later). At that time, Wipro made hydrogenated cooking fat. Famous quote: "As you get bigger, you have to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations. "
Big bet that didn't pay: Three years after appointing two CEOs to navigate Wipro, the duo was suddenly removed and replaced.
Bet that might pay: All recent announcements are headlined by his son and chief strategy officer Rishad Premji, signaling a possible powershift Icon: JRD Tata Act of do-goodery: Transferred 8.6% of his stake in the company worth about Rs 8,646 crore to theAzim Premji Foundation. This is the biggest act of individual philanthropy in India Leadership style: Knows every small detail of his businesses, but does not interfere with everyday operations of the various independent business heads Family ties: Husband to Yasmeen, father to Rishad and Tariq
Bugbear: The blatant rise in corruption in India. Premji was a signatory to an open letter to Indian leaders questioning the current state of affairs
Little known fact: Wipro is the second-largest hydraulic cylinder company in the world When not working: Enjoys trekking and loves watching movies; he often turns to his senior executives for recommendations Recent Accolade: Was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2011
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Chanda Kochhar
Famous Quote: "Demands do not go up or down - they are constantly there. Often, you feel you are doing too much."
As a child: Wanted to be an IAS Officer Little known fact: Used to read the Satyanarayan Katha everyday. Now reads it fortnightly because of time constraints. Stressbuster: The latest Hindi movies with the family. Family ties: Husband Deepak, children Aarti and Arjun
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Deepak Parekh
Chairman, HDFC
Theatre of Operations: India's leading home finance company First Job: Ernst & Young, New York
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AM Naik
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Anand G Mahindra
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Culturally Connect: Behind India's first Blues Festival and actively promotes theatre and sports as well
Famous Quote: There is a degree of freedom that creates aspiration Social Connect: One of India Inc's most active CEOs on Twitter, with close to 5 lakh followers Notable Firsts: Mahindra Racing is the first Indian team to participate in the MotoGP Most likely to be seen: Training for the Mumbai marathon or indulging in his new hobby, sailing
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Adi Godrej
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Methodology
The Economic Times, in partnership with IMRB International, has been conducting comprehensive surveys to ascertain the 'Most Powerful CEOs' of India, for the past few years. The survey has endeavored to identify the business leaders who are well-recognised by people for their efforts in shaping Corporate India.
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MethodologyContd.
The survey was conducted through a five step process: Collating the list of CEOs across sectors Setting evaluation parameters Calculating the parameter-scores Free association & rating of CEOs on each evaluation parameter Ranking of CEOs at an overall level
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MethodologyContd.
The team at IMRB International was provided with a list of CEOs, collated mainly from this year's ET 500 rankings as well as previous years' rankings of 'Most Powerful CEOs' with relevant additions and removals in line with the current corporate scenario. The aim was to arrive at a final short-list of top 100 CEOs to be crowned as the 'Most Powerful CEOs' of corporate India for the current year.
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MethodologyContd.
The CEOs were then evaluated by corporate people in senior/middle management roles on six important parameters: Leadership Strategy & Innovation Performance Stature Social Contribution/ Sustainability Governance.
The respondents were from large companies selected by referring to databases like the ET-500. The respondents were requested to participate through an invite from The Economic Times.
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MethodologyContd.
The corporate respondents were divided into sector-wise panels, and each panel was invited to share their feedback on CEOs from their sector. In order to control respondent bias, we discounted the respondent's opinions on his/ her own company's CEO. The respondents were asked for their inputs using a small surveyinstrument, which could be self-administered or administered face-to-face by seasoned interviewers. The survey-instrument captured inputs on the respondent's CEOassociations across each parameter. The respondents were also invited to add one CEO (to the list) that he/she considers as most powerful. This ensured that the opinion of the respondent was not restricted to the given list of CEO's.
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Process
The respondents were first asked to allocate points to the six parameters, which would add up to a total of 100. The points were allocated on the basis of importance of each attribute as per their opinion.
This helped us to arrive at the sector-wise and overall parameters-weights which were used in the final analysis. For deriving the weights we considered only those scores which were obtained from management respondents belonging to the senior corporate profiles, like the Vice President, Asst. Vice President, General Manager and the like.
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ProcessContd.
After determining the parameter-scores, we checked for the respondent's familiarity with each of the CEOs given in their specific survey-instrument. For CEOs the respondent was adequately familiar with, opinion on each parameter was captured using the 'free association method' followed by a rating on a 3-point association-scale. In this, respondents were given a parameter and were then requested to mention which of the CEOs in the list they associate that parameter with. The respondents had the freedom to associate as many CEOs that they felt could be associated.
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Once they have associated the CEOs for that particular parameter, they are then asked to rate each CEO on a scale of 1 to 3, wherein 1 signifies a weak association, 2 signifies a moderate association and 3 signifies a strong association. Then for each CEO a composite score was calculated at a respondent level. Across respondents, the sum of these composite scores gave us the power score for the respective CEO. The higher the power score, the higher the rank assigned to the CEO.
Finally, we obtained a cross-sector ranking of the CEOs. For this, we indexed the scores for the CEOs across sectors and thereby obtained the master list of top 100 CEOs.
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Suvendu Kr. Pratihari Assistant Professor Marketing Mahendra Institute of Management and Technical Studies Bhubaneswar Odisha, India +91 933 777 3456 spratihari@mimts.org www.mimts.org