Ratan Tata to get Yales Legend in Leadership award

Updated on: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tata Sons' Chairman Ratan Tata will be conferred with the Yale School of Management's prestigious "Legend in Leadership" award. The award will be presented to Tata at a conference of prominent business leaders from all over the world.

The conference will see the world business leaders deliberating upon- "Leading Global Enterprises across Global Cities: Aspirations, Realities and Alternatives."

Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for executive programmes and Lester Crown Professor in management said, "No company and no living leader better embody the themes of this CEO Summit than the Tata Group in general and CEO Ratan Tata in particular. For roughly 20 years, he has brilliantly led one of India's most venerated family enterprises and India's largest conglomerate."

The participants in the conference include Rajan Mittal of Bharti Airtel, Udayan Sen of Deloitte India, FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra; K.K. Modi of Modi Enterprises; India John Flannery of General Electric India China; Rakesh Mohan former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Rajeev Dubey, President of Mahindra & Mahindra, and Shachindra Nath of Religare Enterprises.

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