Prepping for Next 150 Years?
The $106-billion Tata Group has already thrived for a century and a half - more than twice the age of the Republic of India
Rajeev Dubey, Editor, Business Today
Acommon characteristic of some of the world s oldest organisations is their uncanny ability to adapt & adopt, destruct & rebuild, terminate and transform - constantly.
Take Finland s 156-year-old Nokia which began as a paper mill in 1865, dabbled in power, rubber and cable manufacturing until it hit upon the success of mobile communication in 1984, eventually becoming the world s biggest handset maker with over 40 per cent global share by 2007. Then came the decline which resulted in sale of its handset business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion in 2013. But by 2015, it had already acquired Alcatel-Lucent and taken charge of JV with Siemens to emerge as a huge network infrastructure provider.
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Although Ethiopias federal government has declared the end of
conventional war in Tigray, fighting continues. The humanitarian
crisis in Tigray and beyond is desperate. Wider political struggles
are continuing over the future of Ethiopia and the region. In this
webinar, panelists will situate the war within this wider
framework, by taking up the following questions:
How do we understand the war in the context of Ethiopias political and constitutional crisis?