Case (B) provides data on two other India steel companies: 150 year old Tata Steel and the government owned Steel Authority of India Limited and allows the instructor to contrast the entrepreneurial strategy of Mittal with a more administratively focused strategy in these two companies

Lakshmi Mittal, an Indian born entrepreneur, built the largest steel producing group in the world, with nearly 70 million tonnes of production capacity and US$ 31.5 billion in revenues, over a 28 year period from 1976 to 2004. He has shown an uncanny knack for acquiring underperforming steel...