MIT
Sloan Asian Business Club is proud to invite:
Azim Premji
Chairman of Wipro Corporation
"One of the 10 Most Powerful Billionaires in 2003" - Forbes Magazine
What: "Creating a World Class Organization"
Date: Saturday, September 10, 2003
Time: 11:50am - 12:50pm
Location: E51-345
Reception to follow. Lunch will be provided by Wipro Corporation.
About Wipro
India-based Wipro is a leading global services, technology and consumer products corporation with over $900MM in revenues and 18,000+ employees worldwide.
Wipro serves over 300 global leaders including Boeing, Nationwide, Ericsson, Toshiba, Cisco, Seagate, Putnam Investments, United Technologies, Best Buy, Digital, Friends Provident, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Thames Water, Transco and Sony.
About Mr. Premji
"10 Most Powerful Billionaires in 2003" - Forbes Magazine
"15th Most Powerful Man in the World in 2000" - Asia Week
"Businessman of the Year in 2000" - Business India
Under his leadership, a hydrogenated cooking fats company has grown into a $900 million leading global IT services, technology and consumer products company.
A role model for young entrepreneurs across the world, Mr. Azim Premji has integrated the country's entrepreneurial tradition with professional management, based on sound values and uncompromising integrity.
Mr. Azim Premji's strength lies in bringing together and building charged teams of high potential, high performing people. His vision and pragmatism have helped Wipro Corporation become the 2nd most competitive and successful company in India as rated by Business Today, a leading business magazine in India. Wipro in terms of market capitalization is among the top 10 corporations in India.
Mr. Premji very strongly believes that the most important contributors to Wipro's success have been the articulations and faithful adherence to core values, a shared vision for the future, identification and development of Wipro leaders through clearly defined Wipro leaders' qualities.
A hands-on business leader with standards of excellence in everything that the corporation does, Mr. Premji is almost fanatical about delivering value to customers and his willingness to sacrifice business and profits to hold on to "Our Promise".
