B R Taneja & Rakesh Duda

BR Taneja is the founder Managing Director of ISMT Limited, a Pune based steel/engineering conglomerate. He is a first generation entrepreneur and had a long innings with Tatas before he set out on his own in the late 1970s. Within the corporate community he is considered to be a passionate technocrat, value driven manager, and an engaging mentor. His intellectual and academic interests are poverty and public policy. He is, along with his co-author, working on his next book which is a critical commentary on ?noble professions?. Rakesh Duda has been working with ISMT Limited for the last two decades. He has earlier worked with Hero Group, USAID and NCAER. He is an engineer by training, a strategic planner and a people development manager by profession, a humanist by conviction and an academic floater and explorer by temperament.