What do you think about Narayana Murthy stepping down? Will Infosys be the same again without him at the helm? Will it keep growing at the scorching pace it has set?
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S N Subrahmanyan sparked an online outrage with his comments advocating a 90-hour work week and suggesting that employees should even give up Sundays.
N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman, Infosys, has plans to turn the company into a bigger, stronger, and global player.
Infosys employees presented Murthy and his family members a sketch of his on a rice grain.
Its longest-serving CEO (he held the position from 1981 to 2002), he leaves Infosys when the gap between it and the number one information technology services company (TCS) is growing wider.
We have to speed up our responses to the critical areas that we have, he says.
Founder of software giant Infosys, N R Narayana Murthy on Monday said he was positive that the company's first centre would come up in the metropolis."
Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy is among the 12 "greatest entrepreneurs of our time" according to a Fortue magazine list that is topped by Apple's late chief Steve Jobs.
Reader Girish spotted Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, better known as N R Narayana Murthy, one of the seven founders and now the chief mentor of Infosys Technologies, at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in April 2008.
In a short span of time, with the help of Amazon, Cloudtail was able to devise a model that could protect it from the vagaries of online retail business.
Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy has been given the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' by IT magazine Dataquest for building an institution that has changed the IT scenario in the country.
Co-founder of IT major Infosys N R Narayana Murthy and his author wife Sudha Murty cast their ballot for the Karnataka assembly elections on Wednesday and exhorted people to vote.
Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy on Friday said rupee appreciation was a macro-economic issue and called upon corporates to become more efficient, productive and reduce costs.
Describing Murthy as a business icon, T V Mohandas Pai, former CFO of Infosys, said he is more than eminently suited to hold the position of Chairman Emeritus.
The Second Additional City and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate M Mujahid Ulla ordered issue of summons returnable on June 21 and registering of a criminal case under Section 3 of the Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act 1971.
A similar case is still pending before a court in Mysore. The case is expected to come up for hearing shortly.
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He was accompanied by Hindustan Lever Limited chairman Vindi Banga, ICICI CEO K V Kamath and a member of the Board of Governors.
Software icon N R Narayana Murthy on Saturday backed Anna Hazare's movement against corruption and favoured the Prime Minister's Office and the judiciary coming under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill. The chairman and chief mentor of Infosys also supported people's movements taking to the streets to demand an end to corruption."I think in a democracy, pluralism is inevitable. It has to be there. That is what makes democracy stronger," Murthy told reporters.
The controversy arose following a statement made by Murthy at a press meet he addressed later at which he defended the playing of instrumental version of the national anthem to avoid embarrassment to foreigners present at the function.
Infosys Technologies chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy would be joining the board of trustees of TiE Inc (Global), a world-wide network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship.\n\n
Murthy's life story is to be the content of a new comic to be brought out by Amar Chitra Katha, the popular comic book series, making him the first living person to be featured in the Amar Chitra Katha series, which mostly focuses on popular Indian myths and legends.ACK Media, the publisher, will follow this up with stories of famous personalities like cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and former Indian President and Bharat Ratna award winner, APJ Abdul Kalam.
Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy has said his 22-year-old son Rohan does not want to step into his shoes and hinted he may have a venture of his own.
N R Narayana Murthy, who returned as Executive Chairman of Infosys on Saturday, said he will be more effective with his son Rohan as an Executive Assistant but made it clear the latter has no leadership role.
After guiding Infosys to become one of the most admired IT companies in the world, N R Narayana Murthy will step down as its executive chairman on Sunday, amid firm indications that he would continue to call the shots.
Murthy indicated that it was the board's wish that he should continue as the chief mentor
Citing an example of traffic rule violation in the national capital, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Tuesday said that he feels uncomfortable coming to Delhi because it is the one city where indiscipline is the highest. While speaking at the All India Management Association (AIMA) Foundation Day, Murthy shared that people should treat community property better than personal property as one of the values to avoid issues of dishonesty in public governance. "I really feel very uncomfortable coming to Delhi, this is one city where indiscipline is the highest.
Expressing shock over the killing of a Karnataka official, said to be a whistle-blower in some controversial land allotments, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Sunday said the first priority of the government should be to protect honest officers.
The current executive co-chairman S Gopalakrishnan will be re-designated executive vice-chairman while S D Shibulal, who was one of the seven engineers to launch the company in 1981 by pooling together $250, will continue as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Industry body Nasscom on Wednesday said it has formed a corporate governance and ethics committee to prevent Satyam-like incidents in future.
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies, is planning to invest in US-based clean technology venture capital fund Siderian Ventures.
Rohan Murthy, the only son of his parents, has found his life partner in Lakshmi Venu, the 26-year-old daughter of TVS Motor co-chairman Venu Srinivasan. In no time after confirmation from the bride and the groom, the two families sealed the merger of souls with their engagement in Chennai on Friday evening.
A lot of my decisions are based on idealism, says N R Narayana Murthy
One possible way of accelerating National Education Policy's outcome is to invite 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India in STEM areas to create 2,500 "Train the Teacher" colleges in the country's 28 states and eight union territories, Murthy said.
President Kalam, while interacting with trainees at the Infosys' Global Education Centre in Mysore, acknowledged that Murthy's appointment to the top post would be 'fantastic.'
Expressing hope that new Finance Minister P Chidambaram will "set right" things at the earliest, business leader NR Narayana Murthy on Friday said the government and the opposition should declare that they would never do anything on "retrospective basis".
In a major top management re-shuffle, Infosys on Saturday said it has re-appointed N R Narayana Murthy as executive chairman and additional director with immediate effect.
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