R. P. Goenka

Indian industrialist (1930–2013)

In the history of enterprise, R. P. Goenka is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists R. P. Goenka as Indian industrialist (1930–2013).

R. P. Goenka was born at Kolkata in 1930. His recorded nationality is Dominion of India. He was educated at Presidency University and Harvard University.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as industrialist.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Dominion of India shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

R. P. Goenka died in 2013, aged 83. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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