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Mr. Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
Founding Member, Infosys Technologies.
Nationality: Indian
Born: August 20, 1946, in Karnataka, India
Education: University of Mysore, B.Tech, 1967; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.Tech, 1969.
Career: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, 19691971, Chief Systems Programmer; SESA, Paris, 19721974, Systems Engineer; Systems Research Institute, Pune, India, 19751977, Project Leader; Patni Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, 19771981, Head-Software Group; Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India, 19812002, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; 2002 2006, Chairman and Chief Mentor.
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Mohan Tanniru, Dean - School of Business Administration at the Oakland University is looking forward to welcoming Mr. Narayana Murthy the founder of Infosys Technologies Limited. In an exclusive chat with miindia.com; Dr. Tanniru spoke about the upcoming event to honor Mr. Murthy with an honorary doctoral degree from Oakland Universitys. Murthy will receive the honorary degree during its December 13 commencement ceremony.
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A luncheon honoring Narayana Murthy is being cosponsored by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and will be held at 12:00 noon on Friday, December 12 at the Troy Marriott. The cost for the luncheon is $40. Additional guests are $40 each. The luncheon is open to faculty, business people and the Indian community. With a busy schedule and numerous offers from universities worldwide Mr. Murthy has graciously agreed to attend the event on December 12th.
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Mr. Narayana Murthy in his earlier interviews:
 "If we want to sell capitalism to the people," Murthy explained to the New York Times, "we have to practice a lifestyle that does not seem unattainable. We want more and more people to become entrepreneurs. If the tea stall owner in a small village can say, 'Hey, these guys can do it; so can I,' and get his business into the next orbit, then our job is done" (December 16, 1999). He told the Ivey Business Journal, "Great leaders make people believe in themselves" (September/October 2001).
Dr. Tanniru explained that the University has bestowed the honor on highly accomplished leaders with a global vision and commitment to the community. On an additional note, the dean exclaimed that Mr. Murthy has consistently exhibited his desire to promote Infosys as a company that cares about its people and a socially responsible organization. He balanced profitability with compassion and has built a premier organization with about 100,000 employees.
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Mohan Tanniru was recently appointed dean of Oakland University School of Business Administration. He first joined OU in 1997 as a professor in Management Information Systems (MIS). From 1997-2002, he was the director of its Applied Technology in Business Program and co-director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in information technology. During this time, he raised over $2.5 million for student scholarships, faculty support and research conferences.
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 N. R. Murthy, longtime leader of the software-development company Infosys Technologies, became one of India's, and the world's, most highly esteemed managers. Though a wealthy man and a prime mover in India's booming software-outsourcing industry, he continued to live modestly and practice "compassionate capitalism," a philosophy that used free-market systems to create a better life for society as a whole. Mr. Narayana Murthy has definitely come a long way from being a socialist student to a capitalist entrepreneur.
Even though Murthy became one of India's most successful entrepreneurs, he remained committed to what he called "compassionate capitalism," spreading wealth to employees and Indian society in general, not just senior executives. Infosys paid high wages for the local market and was the first Indian company to offer stock options to its employees. The company built a 42-acre campus in Bangalore with employee exercise and relaxation facilities and cafeterias that were partly subsidized by the corporation. As an admired global leader, highly respected business leader and as an Asian hero who has brought about revolutionary changes in Asia, Murthy has a long and varied list of accomplishments.
To name a few: The ET Businessperson of the Year Award [2000-2001], The Max Schmidheiny Award 2001. Mr. Murthy has been featured in the Asiaweek Power 50 (June 2000) - a list of Asia's Most Powerful People, He has been named by Business Week as one of the Top Entrepreneurs of the Year 1999. He was chosen as the Business India's "Businessman of the Year 1999", the Indian corporate world's most coveted award. Business Week chose him as one of "The Stars of Asia" for three successive years, in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He has been awarded the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award for 1996-97. He also received the Padma Shri from the Republic of Indiain the year 2000. Mr. Murthy has also been conferred with the Distinguished Alumni Award for the year 1998 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, He is the Co-Chairman of the Indo-British Partnership, He is a member of the Asia Society's International Council and Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California School of Engineering. He is also on the Wharton Business School's Asian Executive Board.
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About the event: Luncheon December 12, 2008 at Troy Marriott, Troy from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. Includes Panel on the Future of IS Leadership in a Global Economy - Panel members: Mr. N.R. Murthy (honoree), Mr. John Crary (VP-CIO, Lear), Mr. Fred Killeen (CTO, GM), Mr. Raj Vattikutti (Covansys); moderator, Mike Grieves (OU)
Please visit miindia.com for more information.
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Some information about Oakland University
Oakland University business school partners with a number of companies in the SE Michigan area to provide top notch students. Some useful links:
ATiB Program: http://atib.sba.oakland.edu/atib/home/index.asp
http://www.sba.oakland.edu/alumni/
http://www.sba.oakland.edu/root/BOV/
For more information, please click here.
An miindia.com exclusive.
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