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This award recognizes a company which operates with a higher organizational purpose beyond just maximizing profits. It is focused on aligning and harmonizing the interests of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, partners, industry participants, investors, the community and the environment. It is led by a team of conscious leaders who are aware of their deeper purpose, are obsessed with harmonizing the interests of multiple stakeholder orientation, and are able to successfully balance doing well and doing good.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Tata Steel (Winner)
- Cipla
- Infosys
- Marico
- Wipro
This award recognizes an extraordinary individual whose leadership skills have had a profound impact in building an enduring enterprise with a deep beneficial impact on the wider community and society. Also, this is to recognize his contribution in pushing India Inc to improve standards and also raise its profile in the international arena.
Shortlisted Nominees
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys (Winner)
- A.M. Naik, L&T
- Deepak Parekh, HDFC
- J.J. Irani, Tata Steel
- Y.K. Hamied, Cipla
A person who has led a major business organization with distinction and has developed a track record that has made her a role model for women executives across the industry.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Vinita Bali, Britannia (Winner)
- Zia Mody, AZB
- Ashu Suyash, Fidelity India
- Kalpana Morparia, JP Morgan
- Chitra Ramkrishna, NSE
The head of a public sector organization who was shown the strategic foresight and leadership to deliver superior performance over the past three years, in effectively managing all key stakeholders and preparing the organization for the next phase of growth, and in the process, helped transform the current organization.
Shortlisted Nominees
- B.P. Rao, BHEL (Winner)
- R.K. Singh, BPCL
- B.C. Tripathi, GAIL
- K.R. Kamat, Punjab National Bank
- C.S. Verma, SAIL
The head of a private sector organization who was shown the strategic foresight and leadership to deliver superior performance over the past three years, effectively managed all key stakeholders and prepared the organization for the next phase of growth, and in the process, helped transform the current organization.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Rajiv Bajaj, Bajaj Auto (Winner)
- Francisco D'Souza, Cognizant
- Aditya Puri, HDFC Bank
- Yogi Deveshwar, ITC
- N. Chandrasekaran, TCS
This award is to recognize CEO of a multinational company who has successfully used the Indian market as a test bed for significant emerging market innovation and has in the process discovered a whole new way of doing business.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Shanker Annaswamy, IBM (Winner)
- Manu Anand, Pepsi
- Max Yang, Huawei India
- Param Uberoi, Pernod Ricard
- Hiroshi Nakagawa, Toyota India
An entrepreneur who has displayed the dynamism to revitalize an existing enterprise, and in the process, redefined the rules of business and prepared the enterprise for a whole new vector of growth.
Shortlisted Nominees
- V.G. Siddhartha, Coffee Day Holdings (Winner)
- M.P. Ramachandran, Jyothi Labs
- Vinod Ramnani, Opto Circuits
- Narendra Murukumbi, Sri Renuka Sugars
- Vivek Sehgal, Motherson Sumi Systems
A pioneering enterprise which has demonstrated an outstanding ability to carve out a distinctive niche for itself within the first five years of its existence and also established a strong, sustainable platform for future growth that includes its leadership pipeline, business model and innovation capability.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Rahul Bhatia, IndiGo (Winner)
- P.N. Vasudevan, Equitas Micro Finance
- Ajit Issac, Ikya Human Capital Solutions
- Kapil Viswanathan, PreMedia Global
- V. Jagannathan, Star Health and Allied Insurance
This award recognizes the most innovative social entrepreneur who has combined passion and entrepreneurial chutzpah to bring dramatic solutions to a major social issue in India.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Manish Sabharwal, TeamLease Services (Winner)
- Manoj Sinha, Husk Power Systems
- N.K. Chaudhury, Jaipur Rugs
- Arbind Singh, Nidan
- Rajendra Joshi, Saath
- H. Harish Hande, Selco Solar
An outstanding individual who has set new benchmarks of sustained superior performance and transformational leadership backed by innate risk-taking ability, the discovery of new horizons of growth and the building of new organizational capabilities.
Shortlisted Nominees
- Ratan Tata (Winner)
- Anand Mahindra
- Sunil Mittal
- Sameer / Vineet Jain
- Dilip Shanghvi
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