Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University.
Harvard Business School. Harvard University.
Ajit Narain Haksar was born on January 11, 1925, in Gwailor to a Kashmiri Hindu family. He was educated at the Doon School and subsequently at Allahabad University. He then did an Master of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Haksar joined in 1948, and was made Marketing Director in 1966.
By 1968, Haksar was made Deputy Chairman, and was then instated as chairman in 1969. Haksar was known as the chairman who first took out of purely the tobacco industry and into hotels and paperboards.