Meher Pudumjee's Future Gaze ; the Chairperson of Thermax Peeps Into the Looking Glass and Sees the Engineering Giant Increasing the Contribution From Services, and From Its Green Portfolio, to Sustain Its Blistering Pace of Growth.

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It's the latter half of September 2008 and the snowball that is the global credit crisis is rapidly beginning to gain in size and weight. Investment bank Lehman Brothers has filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch has been bought out by Bank of America, insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is teetering and Wall Street is set to undergo a radical makeover.

Back home, at the Pune headquarters of engineering giant Thermax, Chairperson Meher Pudumjee, 42, is just back from a CII meeting (she is a member of CII Young Indians). She wastes no time in hurriedly convening a meeting of the top management on the fifth floor of Thermax House. The top team is a bit suprised. After all, that's not quite the style of the western classical songstress, who makes it a point to join her choir group every Tuesday she's rarely rushed, and isn't prone to panic.

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Meher Pudumjee's Future Gaze ; the Chairperson of Thermax Peeps Into the Looking Glass and Sees the Engineering Giant Increasing the Contribution From Services, and From Its Green Portfolio, to Sustain Its Blistering Pace of Growth.

Yet, when Meher called for that meeting, the Non-executive Head of the Rs 3,300-crore energy and environment solutions major was, perhaps, responding with a swiftness few head honchos thought was required at that stage. For Meher, to whom the baton was passed on by her illustr...

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