India has come a long way from the shoddy company practices of a few years ago in a bid to attract foreign investors. It seems to be taking the right steps but there is still much to do
'He is an icon of corporate governance. Nobody has done more to advance it in India. This man is committed to transparency and governance more than anyone else I've seen.'' That's Omkar Goswami, chief economist at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), introducing NR Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies, at a recent conference on the subject of corporate governance. It is quite an accolade, and it seems well deserved in certain respects. Murthy launched Infosys 21 years ago with a half a dozen other software engineers, and today the company is an icon of corporate succ...
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