Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or J.R.D. Tata has been the benchmark for business leaders globallydue to his business acumen, integrity, ethics and social concern. He successfully demonstrated thatan organization can be profitable without compromising on ethics and values. He was also the firstto implement a host of employee welfare schemes in corporate India, which were later adopted bythe Indian government as statutory requirements.J.R.D. Tata: Orations on Business Ethics is an insightful and engaging volume that brings forth theviews of eminent leaders from different walks of life, including J.R.D. Tata, Ramachandra Guha,Subroto Bagchi, Mark Tully, Tarun Das, Anil Kakodkar, among others. The book analyses howthe concept of business ethics has moved well beyond financial integrity to include social andenvironmental responsibility, and how corporate social responsibility has gone mainstream.This commemorative volume by XLRI–JRD Tata Foundation in Business Ethics is a tribute toJ.R.D. Tata and takes forward the Xavier School of Management's (XLRI's) mission of 'abidingcommitment to improving the quality of life in organizations and society'.
