




Very early in his tenure, Azim Premji put down what he called the three Wipro Beliefs. Top of the list was integrity, along with respect for people and customer-centricity.
Rishad Premji stressed that despite the world undergoing a period of uncertainty, he remains optimistic as he believes "that great upheavals carry within them seeds of great possibilities”.
Subramanian and the Indian Awake for Transparency, the NGO supported by him, ran into a legal wrangle with Premji over alleged illegality in the transfer of assets from three companies to a private trust and a newly-formed company.
Wipro chairman Rishad Premji has shared a throwback photo taken at the place where the “Wipro story all began”.
The Supreme Court had earlier pulled up the NGO for instituting a maze of frivolous litigation against Premji.
Sharad Sharma, co-founder of policy think tank iSPIRT foundation, follows a system inspired by Wipro founder Azim Premji.
Although the business has undergone a lot of changes since its genesis in 1945, Premji says the values of the organisation remain the same.
The state government quoting Premji said that the Azim Premji Foundation and Wipro want to work in coordination with the state government in the field of quality higher education and health.
The Azim Premji Trust owns 10.7 percent of the promoter’s shareholding in Wipro and has the right to receive all money earned from promoter shares.
A bench of justices S K Kaul and M M Sundresh was hearing an appeal filed by Premji challenging the Karnataka High Court order of May 15 which had rejected their pleas for quashing of the January 27 summons issued by the trial court.
Philanthropist Azim Premji recalls the simple principle at the heart of the enterprise started by his grandfather 75 years ago -- being honest and never compromising.
Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji announced the book in December 2020 saying that while his grandfather MH Premji had started the company called Western India Vegetable Products Limited in 1945, for 53 of the 75 years the company was led by his father Azim Premji who turned the company into a global IT firm.
Throughout the pandemic, which saw lockdown measures to curtail the spread of the virus, the information technology industry has kept the world running and has also adapted to the changes, Premji said, speaking at an event of the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society on Tuesday evening.
The additional grant will be directed primarily on universal vaccination, Azim Premji said while speaking at the foundation day event of the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society.
Technology is often at the forefront of economic recovery, but especially so now, as the pandemic precipitated structural changes across industries and challenged established ways of working, Wipro chairman Premji has said a letter to shareholders.
In 2006, Warren Buffett gifted 10 million of his Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2019, the Azim Premji donated $21 billion to the Azim Premji Foundation; part of it in Wipro shares. Both endowments have grown substantially, thanks to rising stock prices.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev are among the speakers for the online lecture series organised by the Sangh and civil society groups.
Premji, who is also known for his philanthropic work, emphasised that during this period it is imperative that the country come together as one.
Mumbai, Apr 27 Premji Invest, the investment arm of Wipro founder Azim Premji's endowment, teamed up with Asian private equity fund ADV Partners to..
This model will drive inclusive growth and better participation from all parts of the country and a greater number of women who will need flexibility to work from home, as per Azim Premji.