R Gopalakrishnan

Biography

 R Gopalakrishnan (Gopal to his friends) has been a professional manager for 45 years from 1967 onwards: 31 years in Unilever and 14 years in TATA. He had served in Jeddah as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, in Bangalore as Managing Director of Brooke Bond Lipton India, and finally as Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever. Currently, he is Director, Tata Sons Ltd. He is the chairman of Tata Auto-Component Systems and Rallis India, the vice chairman of Tata Chemicals, and is a director of Tata Power and Tata Technologies. He is an independent director on the boards of Akzo Nobel India and Castrol India. He studied physics at St Xavier‟s Calcutta, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He is the Past President of All India Management Association. In 2007, his first book, “The Case of the Bonsai Manager: Lessons for Managers on Intuition”, was published by Penguin India. In 2010, his second book entitled “When the penny drops : Learning what is not taught” was published by Penguin India followed by Hindi and Tamil editions. In 2012, his third book “What the CEO really wants from you: the 4 A’s for Managerial Success” was published by Harper Collins India. He has delivered guest lectures and written articles; designed and taught an unusual course entitled LWNT-Learning What’s Not Taught at Tata Management Training Centre in Pune, Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai and other institutions.

Research Interest

 Managing, Bussiness Management,etc