"It was corporate India's biggest loss, " says Ravi Kant, managing director of Tata Motors.
Kant is hoping to avoid this type of scenario with the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
Readings will include writing by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin and Virginia Woolf.
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Studying philosophy at the University of Chicago, and reading voraciously from Plato to Kant to H.
But politics, as Kant and Mill recognised, has also to deal with men at their worst.
Kant needed someone to take on a risky project--to extend the truck line beyond the sturdy Tata mainstays.
Kant told them to present a basic plan that very afternoon, in front of him and--alarmingly--all their bosses.
It is their version of the categorical imperative that the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant identified in morality.
For Kant, though, the real achievement will be the undertaking's economic knock-on effect.
Kant wanted one cheap enough to compete with three-wheeled motorized rickshaws and even considered building a small three-wheeled truck.
How Apple wheedled their pay outs down to only 2 percent is likely a tricky question involving accountants who studied Kant.
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It requires seeing the other person in his or her entirety, as an end and not as a means (Kant, anyone?).
That is a rough summary of a long lecture containing just the right number of non-intimidating allusions to Kant and Aristotle.
Tata Motors' vice chairman Ravi Kant said that while the market continues to be challenging, he's hoping for an imminent turnaround.
India's middle class is 400 million strong, and Kant reckons that by 2021 it will account for 47% of the country's GDP.
Despite the wealth of foreign investment in India, Kant also notes that the drive for change is coming from within the country.
But last week, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attended the official opening of a Russian air base in Kant, near the capital, Bishkek.
Except with some weird New England accent, so it came out KANT!
The project may be ambitious, but Kant notes that its supersonic timeframe is necessary given the speed the country's young population is growing.
If we're going to read Kant on the Kindle, or Proust on the iPad, then we should at least experiment with an ugly font.
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The great philosopher Kant once said that there were two things that continually filled him with wonder: the starry heavens above him and the moral law within him.
That's the sort of thing that Girish Wagh, one of the breakfast-meeting whiz kids, was working to foster when Kant called him in unexpectedly in December 2000.
Sometimes the gentle Allen would be inside there, too, indicating, with his eyes, Look, go away, please go away, I am trying so hard not to call you KANT!
"You need to have a very good plan of the backbone of the city you've created, and then allow the private sector to come in at the appropriate time, " says Kant.
Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).
In the 200 years since Kant, a key principle of ethics has been that motivation must be free of self-interest, and intrinsically good, if it is to be recommended as a guide for behaviour.
So when Tata Motors needed someone to take charge of the company's most ambitious plan yet--to build the world's cheapest car ever--Ravi Kant, who by then had become the company's managing director, again turned to Wagh.
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