Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal is a classic and a very inspirational book. Book contains success story of 25 IIMA graduates written wonderfully. The book is well written in short, simple and crisp English. It doesn’t require one to be a Management guru to understand the context.

It includes some big names like Sanjeev Bikhchandani (PGP ‘89), naukri.com In 2006, his big idea, naukri.com became the first dotcom to IPO on an Indian stock exchange. Shantanu Prakash (PGP ‘88), Educomp. His company Educomp is today the leading provider of digital content for schools across India.Vinayak Chatterjee (PGP ‘81), Feedback Ventures Vinayak quit his job at Pond’s to start Feedback Ventures which morphed into India’s leading infrastructure advisory and engineering firm.

Ashank Desai (PGP ‘79), Mastek ,R Subramanian (PGP ‘89), Subhiksha He quit his job at Citibank 15 days after joining, to start India’s largest grocery chain – Subhiksha. Subramanian famously rebuffed offers from Reliance Retail as he believes the best is ‘yet to come’.Narendra Murkumbi (PGP ‘94), Shree Renuka Sugars. He shut down the first company he started after graduating because a Rs 5 crore turnover was not ‘large enough’. His second venture Shree Renuka Sugars is today a Rs 1000 crore company, and has changed the lives of hundreds of sugarcane farmers.Chender Baljee (PGP ‘72), Royal Orchid Hotels His family owns Baljee’s, Simla’s most famous hotel. Yet as a young management graduate, Chender decided to carve out his own niche………………

buy it to find out more!!

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