Economic Times Award for Corporate Excellence for Lifetime Achievement

Dhirubhai was conferred the Economic Times Award for Corporate Excellence for Lifetime Achievement in August 2001.
Seen in the picture are Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan (extreme left), Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha (third from left), Dhirubhai himself, and Dr Verghese Kurien, Chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.
Wharton School Dean’s Medal to Dhirubhai

On June 16, 1998, Dhirubhai Ambani became first Indian ever to be awarded the Wharton School Dean’s Medal.
Seen in the picture are former defence minister of India Mulayam Singh yadav (from the left), former Indian prime minister H D Deve Gowda, Dhirubhai’s wife Kokilaben, Dhirubhai himself, and Thomas Gerrity, Dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
Dhirubhai - The Stock Market King

THE AMBANI MAGIC: Reliance Industries was listed in 1977 in one of the largest public stock offerings of its time and its annual shareholders’ meetings were so well attended they had to be held in a football stadium.
And Dhirubhai held his shareholders spellbound, paying high dividends and bonuses at a time when equities were seen as a low-return, risky investment.
This made Dhirubhai Ambani a hero to shareholders. Original investors in the 1977 initial public offering have earned a compounded annual rate of return of 43 per cent.
“Ployester Prince”

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE PRINCE: ‘Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance’s employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant,’ said Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, arguably India’s greatest entrepreneur ever, years before his death on July 6, 2002.




