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Politics, Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
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Politics, Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business

by Usha, Bhanu;Krishna, K. V. Murthy
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
232 pages
9h 1m
English
Pearson India
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CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY |
19.5.2.2 Birla Group
Krishna Kumar Birla, son of the founding father of the Birla Group, Ghanshyam Das Birla, was among the
founder members of the Indian sugar industry which he joined in 1940. Birla had established one of the
India’s biggest business conglomerates and his industrial empire spans key industries such as sugar, fertilisers,
chemicals, heavy engineering, textiles, shipping and newspaper. He was a respected parliamentarian, socialite,
philanthropist and scholar apart from being an industrialist.
He established the K.K. Birla Foundation, which has instituted annual awards for excellence in Indian
literature, scientif c research and Indian philosophy. K.K. Birla, popularly known as K.K. Babu, was ...
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