Ohio University bestows honorary doctrate on Ratan Tata
Mumbai: Ratan Tata, chairman of the century-old Tata Group, was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by the Ohio State University (OSU).

According to an university release, the award was given for his contribution in restructuring the 80-company Group into a more competitive and responsive, 21st century global entity. The release added that his stewardship and foresight have provided opportunities for a new generation of foreign-trained Indian engineers and researchers to work for the benefit of their native country.
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Ken Eldred and Baba Kalyani to form call centre
Mumbai: Epicentre, a 5,000-seat call centre is being planned in city by two leading businessmen. Baba Kalyani, promoter of the Kalyani group and Ken Eldred, co-founder of Ariba are in this joint venture together. Both businessmen are investing in the venture in their individual capacities.

The JV has former Escotel chief executive, K Vijay Rao, as the third partner in the project which will have an initial capital of $5 million. Rao will also be the company’s managing director and chief executive officer.

The call centre will initially handle the back-office work for American Express and Capital One, two of the largest credit card companies in the US. The centre is currently in a pilot stage at Powai, a suburb of Mumbai.

At a later stage, the company also proposes to expand its services portfolio to areas like technology and products for software firms. Software companies, particularly those which sell products, often have to make large-scale investments in setting up back-end processes, to address client queries about the product. Epicentre plans to tap this growing market.
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