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Azim Premji
Azim Hasham Premji was born in July, 1945, in Karachi, India.
In 1966, as he was a 21-year-old engineering student at Stanford University in California, when he learned that his father had passed away in India; he went back to India to attend his father's funeral (his father died at the age of 51) and discovered that his father had picked him to run the company (Ivaravl, 2010).
Some biographies say he abandoned his Stanford education to jump start his father's company, others say he graduated; for example, Gale Biography in Context (2012) claims he got a "bachelor's degree in arts and science"; The Gale Biography in Context (2003) reports that he interrupted his engineering studies "midway through his degree at Stanford" when his father died. Michigan State University (which invited him to speak to the graduating class in 2014), claims he is "a graduate in electrical engineering" from Stanford (States New Service, 2014).
The company his father had launched was Western India Vegetable Products (producing cooking oil); it was a business...
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Premji changed the name of his father's company to Western India Products (Wipro) in 1977, and by the year 2000 Wipro had become a "global leader in software solutions" and contracted with General Electric and Cisco to provide servers and routers. "He is an incredibly shrewd businessman" and specializes in outsourcing computer software with "an army of low-cost but highly skilled workers" (Gale Biography in Context, 2003).
His leadership style is based on values and ethics. He is a billionaire many times…
Works Cited
Gale Biography in Context (2003). Azim Hasham Premji. Retrieved July 24, 2014, from Detroit: Gale, 2003.
Gale Biography in Context. (2012). Azim Premji. Retrieved July 24, 2014. Detroit: Gale,
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Gee, Marcus (2008). Leave it to Premji. Globe & Mail. Biography in Context.
2014, from http://ivaravi.wordpress.com.
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