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R Gopalakrishnan
R Gopalakrishnan
R Gopalakrishnan has been at top of corporate world in India for over three decades. He is former Director of Tata Sons and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever. He has over 30 years of board experience and currently serves as an independent director of listed companies, Castrol India and one of Sri Lankan conglomerates, Hemas. He also worked as independent director of Press Trust of India. He has been appointed as Distinguished Professor of IIT, Kharagpur and Executive-in-Residence at SPJIMR, Mumbai. He studied physics at Kolkata University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
R Gopalakrishnan has been at top of corporate world in India for over three decades. He is former Director of Tata Sons and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever. He has over 30 years of board experience and currently serves as an independent director of listed companies, Castrol India and one of Sri Lankan conglomerates, Hemas. He also worked as independent director of Press Trust of India. He has been appointed as Distinguished Professor of IIT, Kharagpur and Executive-in-Residence at SPJIMR, Mumbai. He studied physics at Kolkata University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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R Gopalakrishnan: The corporation is a great innovation
Exemplary behaviour by visible leaders is a strong driver to embed corporate governance innovation
R Gopalakrishnan: Rosh gadol culture and a 'can-do' spirit
Companies should examine how to develop more rosh gadol, chutzpah and bitzua by influencing the organisational culture rather than only their processes
R Gopalakrishnan: The buzz around innovation
Whatever cynics might say, buzz has a value. It changes language and culture and that is hugely important in social transformation
R Gopalakrishnan: Innovation on the right track
How the Railways can play a key role in carrying Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat message across India
R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity - Lessons from Jesuits
Innovation produces unintended risks. However, only a scientific temper can advance knowledge
R Gopalakrishnan: Coping with technophobia
Innovators must recognise that there will be opposition to their innovation, but they must listen carefully to the concerns of those who oppose them
R Gopalakrishnan: The ascent of management
Control rather than freedom, direction rather than participation, productivity rather than creativity, in today's context it was unbelievable how companies were run in the seventies
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R Gopalakrishnan: Ganesha, Gandhi & GM foods
Or, how to remove obstacles in innovating with food and agriculture
R Gopalakrishnan: For a second rice revolution
Better seeds and cultivation methods can be a game-changer
R Gopalakrishnan: Innovation across borders
Foreign direct investment can encourage a healthy flow of research & development in either direction
R Gopalakrishnan: The 'I' factor in innovation
Who should get the credit for an innovation? Should it be the one who conceptualised it or the one who commercialised it for public use?
R Gopalakrishnan: Time, patience & innovation
The story of shale gas fracking shows how innovations take long to diffuse
R Gopalakrishnan: 'Neat and clean' innovation
The idea of sanitation has raised many challenges down the years
R Gopalakrishnan: Consumer-driven innovation
How consumer problems drive the framing of the innovation question
R Gopalakrishnan: The biography of innovation
The impact of an innovation on human lives is more important than the 'first' person who came up with the idea
R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity is not in your genes
The idea is to stay open to new ideas and remain permanently curious
R Gopalakrishnan: Preparing for eureka
Mental preparedness can improve the chances of eureka at will
R Gopalakrishnan: Creativity from chaos
How serendipity and colliding neurons work in real life
R Gopalakrishnan: Serendipity in innovation
The occurrence of events by chance in a beneficial way is crucial
R Gopalakrishnan: Emotion and innovation
Young leaders must not just throw up ideas, they must develop them