Narayana Murthy, the chairman of Infosys, an Indian software company, can teach many CEOs something about transparency of compensation (see page 36).

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So said Mohammed Shahabuddin, manager of business development for the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), an Indian software industry body.

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There do, however, appear to be a few genuine believers such as Wipro, an Indian software and services giant which is run by two chief executives, Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani.

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Hours after he uttered those words, Wipro, an Indian pioneer of software services said it would open a new development centre in Atlanta, Georgia, that will report to its headquarters in Bangalore.

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Dr. Prabhakar Reddy is an emergency room doctor in Bangalore, an Indian boomtown known for its call centers and software factories.

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An engineer from the elite Indian Institute of Technology, he started his career as a low-paid software engineer at a time when India's outsourcing industry was still to take off.

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With the world economy and stock markets working against them, we saw great results over several years from the merger of two centuries-old tobacco companies in Europe (Altadis), an Indian soap-and-cooking-oils maker that has become of the world's leading software services providers (Wipro) and a for-profit school system that owns an incredibly successful dot.com (Apollo Group).

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