Publish with Us

Follow Penguin

Follow Penguinsters

Follow Penguin Swadesh

The Unusual Billionaires

The Unusual Billionaires

Saurabh Mukherjea
Select Preferred Format
Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Ebooks

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 India.

Imprint: India Portfolio

Published: Sep/2020

ISBN: 9780143426738 (Paperback)

ISBN: 9780670089253 (Hardback)

Length : 454 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

The Unusual Billionaires

Saurabh Mukherjea

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 India.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Ebooks

Saurabh Mukherjea

Saurabh Mukherjea, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an alumnus of the London School of Economics, is the author of four best-selling books on subjects including investing, business strategy and self-improvement. Prior to Marcellus, he was the CEO of Ambit Capital and before that, the co-founder of Clear Capital (UK). Saurabh manages Marcellus Investment Managers.

More By The Author

The Art of Enduring

The Art of Enduring

Saurabh Mukherjea, Salil Desai
Behold the Leviathan

Behold the Leviathan

Saurabh Mukherjea, Nandita Rajhansa
Unfiltered

Unfiltered

Ana Lueneburger, Saurabh Mukherjea
Diamonds in the Dust

Diamonds in the Dust

Saurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan, Salil Desai
The Victory Project

The Victory Project

Saurabh Mukherjea, Anupam Gupta
Coffee Can Investing

Coffee Can Investing

Saurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan, Pranab Uniyal

Essential reads for the Budget season

With the Union Budget under discussion, it is a good time to visit some essential reads that examine the socioeconomic landscape of the country. Here is a list of critical reads to keep things in perspective this Budget season:     Economics without Tears by Ashok Sanjay Guha If you are a layman wondering what […]

error: Content is protected !!