The Duke India Business forum organized a half day event on Feburary 17th, for which Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy was the keynote speaker. The event titled “Duke Infosys Business India Forum”, had two panel discussions preceding the Keynote speech by Mr. Murthy.
A few minutes before Mr. Murthy’s keynote speech at 4pm, the graduate business students streamed into Geneen Auditorium and it quickly became a standing room only event. Clearly, everyone wanted to see and hear the storied visionary from India, who embraced “Compassionate Capitalism” in the late seventies after experiencing state brutality while traveling through the then communist Bulgaria.
The dean of Fuqua School of Business, William Boulding, and various faculty members of the business school attended the keynote as well. Mr. Boulding conducted a QA session with NRN for the benefit of the audience, to pry out nuggets of wisdom from the once Chairman and Mentor of Infosys. Mr. Murthy stepped down as Chairmain of Infosys in 2011.
Kudos to the Duke India student body for pulling off this event!

