CEO of PepsicCo India D Shivakumar to deliver JRD Tata oration at XLRI

JAMSHEDPUR: The Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India, D Shivakumar will deliver the JRD Tata oration on Business Ethics at XLRI- Xavier School of Management on November 29 here.

The session will be attended by T V Narendran, MD, Tata Steel Limited and Chairman, Board of Governors, XLRI, Fr. E Abraham, Director of XLRI, Dr Pranabesh Ray, Dean [Academics] at XLRI, among other dignitaries, a XLRI press release here today said.

Abraham said "XLRI has always placed on the forefront, the importance of pursuing an ethical code of conduct in the corporate world as it believed no management education curriculum is really complete, unless and until the students are instilled with a set of abiding values - that are indispensable ingredients for any aspiring business leader in today's world."

"For the last 22 years, XLRI has been organizing the 'JRD Tata Oration on Business Ethics' for our students to listen to their role models and leaders and understand the need and importance of ethics in business as well as inspire them to follow these ethical codes of conduct in their professional and personal lives, he said expressing happiness to have Shivakumar deliver the oration this year and inspire our students with his thought-provoking words."