Gita Piramal Explained

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Birth Date:	1954
Gita Piramal
Occupation:	Writer, historian

Gita Piramal (born 1954) is an Indian writer and business historian.

Education

Gita Piramal completed her education in the United Kingdom and graduated from Bombay University. She holds a PhD in business history (1988), a Master's degree in History (1981), and a Bachelor of Art in History of the West (1977).^{[1] [2] [3]}

Career

Gita Piramal serves as a Senior Associate Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She has worked as an entrepreneur and businesswoman, a journalist and writer.

Piramal founded The Smart Manager, a management magazine, which she led from 2002 to 2012. She also headed ERGO (2005-2012), a furniture manufacturer, from 2005 to 2012 and was a director at VIP Luggage from 1990 to 2005. Currently, she serves as a non-executive board member at Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv and Bajaj Holdings & Investments.

Piramal conceptualized and created content for three programs on CNBC-TV18. She scripted, edited, and appeared in or anchored over 100 television documentaries and contributed more than 1,500 articles to international and Indian publications.^[3]

Published writings

Books

• Kamalnayan Bajaj: Architect of the Bajaj Group (2015), Kamalnayan Bajaj Charitable Trust Book, Pune
• The Quotable Tycoon (2008), with David Olive, Penguin Books India, New Delhi
• Managing Radical Change (2000), with Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher Bartlett, Penguin Books India, Delhi
• Business Mantras (1999), with Aparna Piramal, Radhika Piramal, and Mukund Beriwala, Penguin Books India, Delhi
• Business Legend (1998), Penguin Books India, Delhi
• Business Maharajas (1997), Penguin Books India, Delhi
• India’s Industrialists (1985), with Margaret Herdeck, Three Continents Press, Washington

Book chapters

• ‘The Bombay Plan and the Frustrations of Sir Ardeshir Dalal'. Chapter in Sanjaya Baru (ed). ‘The Bombay Plan’. Rupa Publications. 2018.
• ‘Ratan Tata’ and ‘J.R.D.Tata’ chapters in ‘The Tata Saga’. Penguin, 2018.
• ‘Animal Spirits: Stray Thoughts on the Nature of Entrepreneurship in India's Business Families after Liberalization'. Chapter in Rakesh Mohan (ed). 'India Transformed: 25 Years of Economic Reforms'. Penguin Random House India. 2017.
• 'Dhirubhai Ambani', 'Rahul Bajaj', 'Ratan Tata' and 'Walchand Hirachand'. Chapters in ‘The Portfolio Book of Great Indian Business Stories: Riveting Tales of Business Leaders and Their Times’.^[4] New Delhi: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd. 2015.
• ‘Succession Planning Under The Banyan Tree'. Chapter in ‘Business Standard 2008’. BS Books, New Delhi, 2008.
• ‘The Old Fox'. Chapter in ‘The Non-Fiction Collection: 20 Years of Penguin India’. Volume 3, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2007.
• ‘The Elixir of Entrepreneurship’. Chapter in S V Prabhath (ed). ‘Women Entrepreneurs in India: challenges and achievements. National Institute of Small Industry Extension. Hyderabad. 2002.
• ‘Dhirubhai Ambani’, ‘GD Birla’, ‘JRD Tata’, ‘MK Gandhi’, ‘N Murty’, ‘Rahul Bajaj’, and ‘Sumantra Ghoshal’. Morgen Witzel (ed). Entries in ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Management’. Thoemmes Press. Bristol, UK. 2001.
• ‘New Maharajas’. Chapter in ‘Footprints of Enterprise – Indian Business Through the Ages’. FICCI. Delhi. 1997.
• ‘JRD Tata and GD Birla’. Chapter in Ayaz Menon (ed). ‘India 50 – the Making of a Nation’. Book Quest. Mumbai. 1997.
• ‘Entrepreneurs and Political Awareness - a Study of Bombay’s Business Groups’. Chapter in Dwijendra Tripathi (ed). ‘Business and Politics – A Historical Perspective’. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. 1991.

Edited volumes

• Sumantra Ghoshal on Management: A Force for Good (2005), with Julian Birkinshaw, FT Prentice Hall. London
• Smart Leadership: Insights for CEOs (2005), with Jennifer Netarwala, Penguin Books India, Delhi^[5]

Personal life

Gita Piramal married businessman Dilip Piramal, chairman and managing director of Blow Plast (VIP Luggage), in 1985.^[6] They have two daughters, Radhika and Aparna. The couple divorced in 2005.

External links

• Gita Piramal at Penguin India

Notes and References

1. http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19970722/20350563.html Business Maharani Indian Express 22 Jul 1997
2. http://archives.digitaltoday.in/businesstoday/20040926/cover1.html Business Today Power Women 24 Sep 2004
3. Web site: Indian Management Guru Dr Gita Piramal . 31 July 2009 . 14 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090414205230/http://chillibreeze.com/articles/IndianManagementGurus.asp . dead .
4. News: Forbes . Naushad . Gita Piramal’s Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life review: The Rahul Bajaj legacy . The Hindu . 3 June 2022 . en-IN.
5. Web site: Gita Piramal profile on Barnes and Noble . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100109141147/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Gita+Piramal . 9 January 2010 . 1 August 2009.
6. News: Panama Papers-The Aftermath: Gita Piramal is owner of 34-yr-old Panama firm . . 23 June 2018 . en.