Author and Corporate Advisor at CEO, The Mindworks | Executive-in-Residence, SPJIMR
R Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Kolkata University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a professional manager from 1967. He has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, and as Director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director and Chairman of Castrol India, and independent director of Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka.
Gopal mentors a few start-ups. He is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. He has also authored nine books.
Ethics can be learnt, though it may be considered difficult to teach. What matters is the kind of experiences young managers are exposed to. B-schools and firms play a crucial role in shaping their thinking through such exposures
R Gopalakrishnan
Author and Corporate Advisor, CEO, The Mindworks | Executive-in-Residence, SPJIMR
