#Think2WIN :: Grant a Motivational Nudge for Powerful Thinking and Purposeful Living to your Institutional Stakeholders...
The Learning Hour with C. Bhaktvatsala Rao | Monday, 16th June 2025 at 12 Noon..
Do Encourage Your Institutional Stakeholders (requiring a bit of a nudge)
to Join in The Learning Hour with C. Bhaktvatsala Rao on
Learning to #THINKtoWIN at 12 noon on Monday, 16th of June on https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bhT71pY8SYya3CGQqEubnA.
To learn in a nutshell, the nuts and bolts to powerful thinking and purposeful living — built on insights gained over decades of experience, offering 101 practical, thought-provoking ways to transform how you approach problems, decisions, and opportunities, to sharpen your thinking, lead with clarity, and achieve real breakthroughs at work and in life; helping think smarter, decide better, act decisively — and win.
Dr. C. Bhaktavatsala Rao received his Ph.D. Degree in Industrial Management and M.Tech. Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He received his B.E. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati.
Dr. C. B. Rao has over 50 years of diversified experience in driving business and organizational growth in reputed world-class Indian companies, including subsidiaries of global MNCs.
His expertise and experience cover pharmaceutical and automobile industries as well as other industries.
As the leader at the helm, Dr Rao led multiple value-adding growth initiatives in the companies he was associated with, spanning conceptualization, execution, and development of green-field and brown-field projects.
Dr. Rao has travelled across USA, Europe, Japan and Korea for business development and strategic alliances. He has built high-performance organisations with talent from multiple business and functional domains, and nurtured leadership and operating teams that could deliver competitive advantage.
Dr. C. B. Rao’s last formal leadership assignment was as Executive Chairman and Managing Director at Pfizer Healthcare India Private Limited (2010-2015), a leading developer and manufacturer of sterile injectable pharmaceutical products. Prior to that he was Deputy Managing Director of Orchid Pharma (1998-2010) and Head of Corporate Planning of Ashok Leyland and Hinduja Group (1978-1998). His initial assignments were in State Bank of India, Tata Motors, and Scooters India (1974-1978).
Dr. C. B. Rao has contributed over 170 papers in reputed management journals and business forums. In 2016, Dr. Rao established LeaderCrest Academy Private Limited to share his experience and expertise with professional and academic communities. LeaderCrest is currently into high quality publishing. He has authored eighteen books on various aspects of strategic management over the last eight years. The titles of the books are provided at the end.
Dr C. B. Rao has served as Non-Executive and Independent Director on the Board of Ashok Leyland Limited, and is on the Board of Sentiss Pharma Private Limited. He also serves as Senior Advisor to select Indian and global corporations. Ashok Leyland is the second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in India and among the Top 5 bus manufacturers, globally.
Sentiss Pharma is India’s only pure-play sterile ophthalmology products company, with R&D and manufacturing facilities in India and Switzerland.
Dr C. B. Rao has been invited to serve as Sectoral Leader (Pharmaceuticals) by the Quality Council of India, a Government of India apex organization.
Dr. C. B. Rao serves as Ajit Singhvi Chair Professor in Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. Dr. C. B. Rao’s consulting, teaching and research interests include competitive strategy, strategic management, business leadership and entrepreneurship, among others, with focus on pharmaceutical, automobile, and other industries as well as start-up ventures.
Dr Rao offers regularly video courses on NPTEL Swayam Platform. NPTEL stands for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India and supported by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Including Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai) and Indian Institute of Science. NPTEL has the world’s largest repository of online digital courses on sciences, engineering and management.
Over the last five years, Dr C. B. Rao has developed and offered four courses, comprising 240 lectures and at least 250 hours of teaching content. These four courses are Entrepreneurship, Leadership for India Inc, Strategy and Technology, Business Development. The courses have received strong student participation and positive feedback for their unique blend of academic and practical learnings.
In particular, over 85,000 participants have enrolled themselves for the Entrepreneurship programme, which consistently ranked among the Top 3 Management Programmes of NPTEL. Dr C. B. Rao also offers a course on Practical Entrepreneurship on the NPTEL+ Platform.
Books Authored and Published by Dr C. B. Rao
From Start-up to Ramp up: Indian Context and Global Insights
Technology and Competitive Strategy: Strategies for Innovators, Differentiators and Followers
Competitive Strategy: A Contemporary Retake
Leadership for India Inc.: An Experiential Treatise
India as Global Start-up Hub: Mission with Passion
India’s Economic Resurgence: A Modified Paradigm for a Welfare State
Work-Life Balance: Essays in Individual and Organisational Behaviour
Product Strategy and Corporate Success: Cases and Concepts from the Indian Automobile Industry
Strategic Management: Practice and Philosophy for India Inc.
STEM: Strategy. Technology. Entrepreneurship. Management
Legendary Leaders: Insights and Lessons
Dharmic Management: Lessons from the Indian Social Ecosystem
Strategic Marketing: Cases and Concepts from the Indian Business
Personal Mastery: Behaviour – Competence Frameworks
Organizational Mastery: Behaviour – Competence Frameworks
India as Knowledge Society: Institution – Enterprise Perspectives
Viksit Bharat 2047: Infrastructure. Innovation. Inclusion
Think to Win: 101 Ways for Amazing Transformations
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