Infosys Science Foundation announced the Infosys Prize 2025 laureates, honoring scholars for their extraordinary contributions to scientific research in India across six categories.
The IT major sent mails individually to all its employees, saying they should stick to regular working hours, a report said
Murthy said his own usage of OpenAI’s Generative AI tool ChatGPT has boosted his productivity by five times.
India’s culture of oral rather than written knowledge has limited the development of large data repositories, which are crucial for LLMs, according to Murthy.
Murthy believes that while an administrative approach focuses on maintaining the "status quo," a management approach would be more towards ambition, competitiveness, and efficiency
Murthy spoke to Moneycontrol on the sidelines of the Infosys Prize, where it announced the winners in economics, computer, humanities and social, life science, mathematics and physics categories
His wife, Sudha Murty, and he dedicated more than three and a half hours each evening to reading with their children during their school years, the Infy founder said
Murthy criticised India's focus on rote learning, saying it limits critical thinking and the ability to solve real-world problems.
Speaking exclusively to Moneycontrol, NR Narayana Murthy said he was currently reading Paul G. Hewitt's Conceptual Physics and hoped that the author would give permission to translate the book into all Indian languages.
Murthy noted that entrepreneurs possess shares rather than ample capital in their startup's early stages.
In the Instagram video, Abhradeep Saha also known as Angry Rantman could be heard being critical about NR Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice to improve India's overall work productivity, speaking scathingly about the lack of hikes offered by firms.
Bengaluru-based furniture startup Wakefit has come up with a interesting twist to NR Narayana Murthy's suggestion about working 70 hours every week to improve work productivity and urged everyone to focus on rest and recuperation, by asking them to sleep for 70 hours every week.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2024, NR Narayana Murthy said that his proudest moment was when Infosys became the first-ever Indian company to be listed on Nasdaq in 1999.
Infosys Co-Founder NR Narayana Murthy and his philanthropist-wife and former Chairperson of Infosys Foundation Sudha Murthy were speaking at the launch of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's book, An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy.
Sanjeev Bikhchandani was the latest to support NR Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week suggestion, saying that one cannot leave the workplace at a certain period of time or demand for leaves on weekends to succeed.
NR Narayana Murthy recently revealed that Wipro's Azim Premji told him that not hiring him was one of the biggest mistakes he made.
NR Narayana Murthy came out in support of his views from a few months ago where he had said that if India's work productivity needed to improve, then the youth must work 70 hours every week.
In an X (formerly Twitter) Q&A session on Saturday, Vinod Khosla was asked by a user about what he thought of Narayana Murthy's suggestion and said that those who felt 'attacked' by his views needed mental health therapy.
Writing on X (formerly Twitter), Manish Tewari said that he did not understand why there was such a big issue created about NR Narayana Murthy's words that Indian youngsters should work 70 hours every week.
Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday and gave a detailed explanation of what Narayana Murthy might have meant when he said India's youngsters needed to work 70 hours a week.
In a statement released on Friday, Sajjan Jindal said that the country's biggest strength was its young population and the time to spend on leisurely activities would come in future.
Ashneer Grover said that the general public may not have taken NR Narayana Murthy's comments too well as the measure of work done still gets notified based on the hours spent at a workplace.
NR Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty stressed on people getting out to vote, particularly youngsters.
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Kris Gopalakrishnan talked about early days at Infosys and the close bond between the founders.
Infosys, which today has a market capitalisation of around $80 billion, started with a loan of Rs 10,000 that Sudha Murty gave her husband Narayana Murthy in 1981.