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Entrepreneur: Anand Mahindra
Chairman
Chairman and
and managing
managing director,
director, Mahindra
Mahindra Group
Group
Uniqueness/Strength
Creative and Versatile
Excellent Business skills
Risk Tolerance
Vision
Decisiveness and open-mindedness
Initiated a comprehensive change
program to make the company an
efficient and aggressive competitor in
the newly liberalised economic
environment,
Firm believer in power of education
"most privatisable of all social institutions"
 Short Story

After graduating from Harvard Business School, Anand

Mahindra joined Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd (MUSCO),
as Executive Assistant to the Finance Director.
In 1989 he was appointed President and Deputy managing
director of the company. In the summer of 1991, he was
appointed Deputy managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra
Ltd., a producer of off-road vehicles and agricultural tractors in
India.
During his time at M&M Ltd., Anand initiated a comprehensive
change program to make the company an efficient and
aggressive competitor in the newly liberalised economic
environment in India.
On 9 August 2012, he was appointed chairman and managing
director. Anand is also a co-promoter of Kotak Mahindra
Finance Ltd, which was converted into a bank in 2003
 Milestones achieved

appointed to the board ofU.S.India Business Council,

Rajiv Gandhi Award 2004
Knight of the Order of Merit by French president in
2004,
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009
JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award 2011
Sustainable Development Leadership Award 2014

and
many more . . . . . .
 Interests

Having keen interest in filmmaking, a subject he pursued as an

undergraduate at Harvard. Today, he remains a keen
photographer with a strong interest in film. He also enjoys
listening to the blues and helped set up an annual Mahindra
Blues Festival in Mumbai in 2011.
 Belief

We decided that we weren't going to be in

any business that wasn't global. You're not
safe if you're only athome. You can't
compete in a small pool anymore.
-
Anand Mahindra

This belief lead him to a name to reckon

with in the automobile industry