How Educated are India's Top Business Leaders?

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani was educated at Abaay Morischa School in Mumbai and completed his graduation with a bachelor`s degree in chemical engineering from the UDCT, now Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He stood sixth in the University exams. He later enrolled for an MBA from Stanford University but completed only one year of the two year program and dropped out in the year 1980. Indira Gandhi administration threw open the doors of PFY (polyester filament yarn) manufacturing to the private sector in early 1980. Dhirubhai Ambani had applied for a license to set up PFY manufacturing plant. As Dhirubhai was awarded the licence, so to help him build the PFY plant, he pulled his eldest son Mukesh out of Stanford where he was studying for his MBA. Mukesh then dropped out to help his father and kicked off Reliance’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, beginning in 1981. In 2010, Mukesh Ambani has been conferred the 'Degree of Doctor of Science Honoris Causa' by M.S University, Baroda, Gujarat.

Vinita Bali

Vinita Bali, the Managing Director of Britannia Industries, received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from LSR at the University of Delhi and her MBA at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies at Bombay University. She pursued postgraduate studies in Business and Economics at Michigan State University and served as an intern at United Nations Headquarters.