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I am paranoid about retaining talent: Naik

A large black iron gate hides the two-storeyed building — suitably called High Trees — and the garden surrounding it. Once inside, you can't help but notice the huge driveway, which unlike most houses in Mumbai, has place to park at least 10 cars comfortably. In the pistachio-green nest of A M Naik, chairman & managing director, Larsen & Toubro, we park ourselves in a corner.The bungalow is bang in the middle of the calm and tony Pali Hill in Mumbai's western suburb of Bandra, where some of the leading filmstars live and Dilip Kumar happens to be one of his neighbours.
We can hear a dog bark in the background and remember the 'Beware of Dogs' sign at the gate, and hasten our steps through the quaint wooden staircase leading up to Naik's office. The first floor of Naik's sprawling house serves as an office from where the workaholic CEO manages the show quite often. He starts his day around 7 am and is still in the office when most people hit the bed. Naik's last meeting spilled over into our time and as we waited patiently, we could not help but notice a bunch of young and middle-aged executives, pacing up and down, exchanging notes from time to time, pretty much on their toes. One of th

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Henning Holck-Larsen

Danish businessman and engineer (1907–2003)

Henning Holck-Larsen
Holck-Larsen on a 2008 stamp of India
Born	(1907-07-04)4 July 1907 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died	27 July 2003(2003-07-27) (aged 96) Mumbai, India
Nationality	Danish/Indian
Known for	Founder of Larsen & Toubro

Henning Holck-Larsen (4 July 1907 – 27 July 2003) was a Danish engineer who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) along with Søren Kristian Toubro (27 February 1906 – 4 March 1982).^[1]

Early life and career

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Holck-Larsen was educated at the University of Copenhagen (and what is now the Technical University of Denmark). He came to India in 1937 as a chemical engineer working for F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen. Partnering with his former schoolmate and fellow employee Søren Kristian Toubro, he set up Larsen & Toubro in 1938. The idea of L&T was conceived during a holiday in Matheran, a hill station near Mumbai.^[2] Holck-Larsen was a risk-taker while Toubro was more conservative.^[3] Holck-Larsen and Toubro saw opportunities in India at a time when few Europeans had realised the country's potential for industrial growth.

The first office of L&T, locate

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Søren Kristian Toubro

Danish businessman (1906–1982)

Søren Kristian Toubro (27 Feb 1906 – 4 Stride 1982) was a Scandinavian engineer who co-founded picture engineering authenticate Larsen & Toubro, uncorrupted India-based conglomerate.^[1]

Early days advocate India

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Larsen & Toubro

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