Winners of ET Award 2010: The stars in the Indian sky
1. Business Leader: Aditya Puri
1. Business Leader: Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri, the winner of The Economic Times’ 'Businessman of the Year' for 2010 award, is probably the only CEO who does not carry a mobile phone, let alone a BlackBerry. For someone who has built his institution into India’s second-largest private bank, HDFC Bank boss Aditya Puri is also probably the only banker who makes it a point to leave office at 6 pm every day.2. Emerging Company: Cadila Healthcare
For a maker of artificial sweeteners, being selected for the 'Emerging Company of The Year' honour by the ET Awards 2010 jury must feel like the real thing.Understandably, Cadila Healthcare’s chairman Pankaj Patel was elated. “I feel honoured. It is a proud moment for the company,” said Mr Patel, whose company makes the top-selling sweetener, Sugar Free, and gave India its first indigenously developed swine flu vaccine.
3. Company Of The Year: Larsen & Toubro
When the eight-member jury went through the nominee list for the 'Company of the Year' category, the one thing that stood out in favour of Larsen & Toubro, the ultimate winner, was its ability to constantly reward its shareholders. Not a mean feat, considering that since its inception in 1938, the engineering company, which has built bridges, ports, roads and buildings across the country, has consistently enriched its stakeholders.For a company that is used to accolades and achievements, L&T chairman A M Naik is very happy about the award. "A recognition by ET in such a category will be a great motivator for our people and will push us to perform better. It has come at a right time for us," he said.
4. Global Indian: Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria, the first foreign-born dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) and a man who believes management is not a true profession, is The Economic Times Global Indian of the Year 2010.Prof Nohria, who succeeded Jay Light as the dean of HBS in July, brings fresh perspective to thinking on leadership, arguing that business leaders should go beyond responsibility to the shareholder to include a civic and personal commitment.
5. Corporate Citizen: Bharti Foundation 
Far away from the telecom spotlight, Sunil Mittal runs the country’s largest affirmative action project imparting quality education to 30,000 underprivileged children in rural India across five states. The initiative is housed under the Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of his group.
6. Businesswoman Of The Year: Zia Mody
Zia Mody, who has been chosen The Economic Times Businesswoman of the Year 2010, said she will be happy if the recognition serves as “an inspiration to someone and demonstrates that there is less of a glass ceiling and that you can follow your dreams”.
Far away from the telecom spotlight, Sunil Mittal runs the country’s largest affirmative action project imparting quality education to 30,000 underprivileged children in rural India across five states. The initiative is housed under the Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of his group.6. Businesswoman Of The Year: Zia Mody
Zia Mody, who has been chosen The Economic Times Businesswoman of the Year 2010, said she will be happy if the recognition serves as “an inspiration to someone and demonstrates that there is less of a glass ceiling and that you can follow your dreams”.One of India’s foremost corporate lawyers and a co-founder of AZB & Partners, she is among the very few women of her generation to have broken the glass ceiling in what many still consider to be a male-dominated profession. She has an enviable roster of clients and hers is among the first names that come to mind when the top echelons of India Inc want to go shopping for big acquisitions, whether in the country or overseas.
7. Lifetime Achievement: RC Bhargava
Having joined Maruti Udyog as marketing director around the time it was incorporated in 1981, RC Bhargava can well be called one of the driving forces of the auto company that changed the face of India’s roads. Just four years later, he became MD, and in 1990, was appointed chairman and MD.
8. Business Reformer: Kapil Sibal
He is the enforcer. In keeping with the government's plans of greater private participation, Kapil Sibal, a self-confessed capitalist, has endeavoured over the past 5 months to find the meeting ground for the private and public in the field of education.
He has attempted to bring the focus back on education and build the structure that would shore up the human resource the country so badly needs to surge ahead. While it would be wrong to attribute no achievement to his predecessors, the human resource development ministry has unfortunately been mired in politics. It was seen more as a political tool addressing issues of vote bank politics than a ministry serving the cause of education.
9. Entrepreneur Of The Year: Narendra Murkumbi
Narendra Madhusudhan Mur-kumbi, the 39-year old co-founder and Managing Director of Shree Renuka Sugars, aims to do to sugar what Lakshmi Niwas Mittal did to steel, and he has begun the journey.
Murkumbi, a management graduate from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is probably a lone professional in an industry that is dominated by wealthy families and politicians controlled co-operatives. That is probably why he stands out.
The ET Jury picked Murkumbi as the entrepreneur of the year for his unique way of doing sugar business.
10. Policy Change Agent: Aruna Roy & Arvind Kejriwal
Both Aruna Roy and Arvind Kejriwal are uncomfortable accepting the ET award. Behind the success of the Right to Information Act (RTI) stand tens of thousands of Indians and they would have been happier if the award had been given to that army of volunteers.
However, as Roy, a former IAS mandarin, member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), and one of the founders of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) which was instrumental in the drafting of both the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the RTI, says: “By choosing us RTI activists, we hope Indian businesses are embracing the principles of transparency and accountability to the people of India.”
7. Lifetime Achievement: RC Bhargava
Having joined Maruti Udyog as marketing director around the time it was incorporated in 1981, RC Bhargava can well be called one of the driving forces of the auto company that changed the face of India’s roads. Just four years later, he became MD, and in 1990, was appointed chairman and MD.8. Business Reformer: Kapil Sibal
He is the enforcer. In keeping with the government's plans of greater private participation, Kapil Sibal, a self-confessed capitalist, has endeavoured over the past 5 months to find the meeting ground for the private and public in the field of education.He has attempted to bring the focus back on education and build the structure that would shore up the human resource the country so badly needs to surge ahead. While it would be wrong to attribute no achievement to his predecessors, the human resource development ministry has unfortunately been mired in politics. It was seen more as a political tool addressing issues of vote bank politics than a ministry serving the cause of education.
9. Entrepreneur Of The Year: Narendra Murkumbi
Narendra Madhusudhan Mur-kumbi, the 39-year old co-founder and Managing Director of Shree Renuka Sugars, aims to do to sugar what Lakshmi Niwas Mittal did to steel, and he has begun the journey.Murkumbi, a management graduate from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is probably a lone professional in an industry that is dominated by wealthy families and politicians controlled co-operatives. That is probably why he stands out.
The ET Jury picked Murkumbi as the entrepreneur of the year for his unique way of doing sugar business.
10. Policy Change Agent: Aruna Roy & Arvind Kejriwal
Both Aruna Roy and Arvind Kejriwal are uncomfortable accepting the ET award. Behind the success of the Right to Information Act (RTI) stand tens of thousands of Indians and they would have been happier if the award had been given to that army of volunteers.However, as Roy, a former IAS mandarin, member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), and one of the founders of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) which was instrumental in the drafting of both the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the RTI, says: “By choosing us RTI activists, we hope Indian businesses are embracing the principles of transparency and accountability to the people of India.”
Source: Economic Times
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