This book profiles seven unusual billionaires from India and their businesses. It discusses how focusing on the core business is key to success and how giving management control to executives instead of promoters can benefit a company. The book also explains how investors can achieve market-beating returns by identifying companies using simple metrics. It shares intriguing stories about the companies, such as how Hindustan Unilever aggressively tried to acquire one company but later had to sell a business to them, and how another company found an innovative way to prevent unionization.
This book profiles seven unusual billionaires from India and their businesses. It discusses how focusing on the core business is key to success and how giving management control to executives instead of promoters can benefit a company. The book also explains how investors can achieve market-beating returns by identifying companies using simple metrics. It shares intriguing stories about the companies, such as how Hindustan Unilever aggressively tried to acquire one company but later had to sell a business to them, and how another company found an innovative way to prevent unionization.
This book profiles seven unusual billionaires from India and their businesses. It discusses how focusing on the core business is key to success and how giving management control to executives instead of promoters can benefit a company. The book also explains how investors can achieve market-beating returns by identifying companies using simple metrics. It shares intriguing stories about the companies, such as how Hindustan Unilever aggressively tried to acquire one company but later had to sell a business to them, and how another company found an innovative way to prevent unionization.
This book profiles seven unusual billionaires from India and their businesses. It discusses how focusing on the core business is key to success and how giving management control to executives instead of promoters can benefit a company. The book also explains how investors can achieve market-beating returns by identifying companies using simple metrics. It shares intriguing stories about the companies, such as how Hindustan Unilever aggressively tried to acquire one company but later had to sell a business to them, and how another company found an innovative way to prevent unionization.
from India Saurabh Mukherjea, bestselling author of Gurus of Chaos, delivers an exceptional book with lessons to learn from these seven businesses. Mukherjea tells you why focusing on the core business is central to corporate success and how a promoter giving up control to the top management could be a boon. He also explains how investors can generate market-beating investment returns from identifying companies such as these using a simple set of metrics.
Packed with these learnings are riveting corporate stories of
how Hindustan Unilever made an aggressive bid to buy Harsh Mariwala s business, but had to sell a business to him in a few years, or how Page Industries found an innovative way to stop unionization at their manufacturing units. Other stories include the turnaround of Axis Bank and the boardroom coup that led to its chairman s exit and how Vijay Mallya sold Berger Paints to the Dhingra brothers. This book is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand how business is done successfully in
The Unusual Billionaires
by Saurabh Mukherjea Published in Hardcover (17th August 2016) Publisher: Random House Language: English, 454 pages ISBN-10: 0670089257 ASIN: B01JA9KYK2 Guide Price: £16.50 – Hardcover, £11.99 – Kindle Ed. Click here to buy the Hardcover Edition Click here to buy the Kindle Edition About the Author Saurabh Mukherjea is the CEO of Institutional Equities for Ambit Capital, an Indian investment bank. In 2014 and 2015, he was rated as the leading equity strategist in India by the Asiamoney polls. Mukherjea has spent most of the past decade trying to construct and implement systematic methods for analysing Indian companies in the midst of the chaos that surrounds the Indian stock market. A London School of Economics alumnus, Mukherjea is also a CFA charter holder. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.
