In this episode, Dave Specht interviews Professor Mircea Raianu about his book, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism." In this interview, we discuss the history & development of one of the world's largest family-controlled businesses.

Dave Specht is the author of "The Family Business Whisperer" & creator of The Family Business Masterclass (www.familybusinessmasterclass.com) with Dennis Jaffe. He is also the developer of The Generational Wealth Masterclass (www.generationalwealthmasterclass.org) with James E. Hughes Jr. His professional mission is to Preserve Families and Perpetuate Businesses.

Mircea Raianu is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland and teaches courses on South Asia, the Indian Ocean world, and the history of global capitalism. He is affiliated with the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the Robert H. Smith Business School, & co-organizes the Histories of Global Capitalism Forum (HGCF) in the Department of History. Raianu is a historian of modern South Asia. His primary research & teaching interests are capitalism & economic life. He is currently writing a series of related articles about India’s economy that include topics such as the transition from trade to industry in the context of global financial crises and the intellectual history of Indian capitalism during the interwar period. He has a PhD in History from Harvard University & a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley.

The link to the book on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/4qE0cWo