Andy Mukherjee, Columnist

Tata's New Boss Is a Safe Choice

Chandra must soothe investors before tackling bigger challenges, including TCS.

January 13, 2017 at 3:26 AM UTC

Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies and financial services in Asia. Previously, he worked for Reuters, the Straits Times and Bloomberg News.

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Ratan Tata should cross his fingers and hope he gets lucky the second time around.

Now that he has chosen another successor, after dumping the previous one, the 79-year-old can go back to his day job for the last three months: fighting the jilted Cyrus Mistry to retain control of the sprawling Indian conglomerate.