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...Vivek Paul had already seen his American Dream come true. He arrived in the U.S. from India as an M.B.A. student in 1980, worked hard, married, started a family and rose to a top job at GE, having been recruited by Jack Welch himself. Then, in 1999, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, an Indian conglomerate, called him back to India. He asked Paul, a former water-polo captain, to take over his software unit, Wipro Technologies. "He said, 'You can build another skyscraper in New York,'" Paul says, "'or you can build a completely new thing in India.'" Paul took...
...your list: those we have been fawning over far too long (Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Bill and Hillary Clinton), those we should not be fawning over at all (Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates) and people I have never heard of (Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jurgen Habermas, Azim Premji?). Enough already! JERRI BENNETT--VAN HOUTEN Anaheim Hills, Calif...
...AZIM PREMJI by Aravind Adiga...
Being the Midas of global outsourcing might not make Azim Premji popular in the U.S., but back home in India he's a role model. The story of how the Stanford-educated Premji transformed Wipro, his family's vegetable-oil business, into one of the world's most important outsourcing companies (total employees: 27,200) is already part of Indian business folklore. A growing number of U.S. and European firms rely on the Bangalore-based Wipro to handle their software needs, keep their databases and computer networks up and running, and answer calls from customers. That has made Premji...
...instruction and to roll back education and possibly business quotas for Malays have met stiff resistance from ordinary Malays. And his patronage of key Malay businessmen has also been less than successful; many wound up bankrupt, forcing the government to bail them out. "He's fed up," says Azim Zabidi, a former member of UMNO's Supreme Council...