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  2. Ask Ramalinga Raju

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    / October 22, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By G Mohan   Ramalinga Raju has spent more than two years in judicial custory. Thanks to his good behaviour, the jail authorities have allowed him to use a computer. He has been also been given a mail id in the Chanchalguda mail server, where every mail is censored. Using...

  3. Chanchalguda Raju will not be India’s Rajaratnam

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    / October 13, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   The hottest topic in the business world now is the possible bail of scamster B. Ramalinga Raju, a.k.a. Chanchalguda Raju, and his brother and accomplice, B. Rama Raju, a.k.a., ‘Chinna’ Chanchalguda Raju. It may be a matter of days before the Chanchalguda Rajus post bail...

  4. Of a Raj Rajaratnam and a Ramalinga Raju

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    / May 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By M S Hussain   While the United States has been criticised by certain quarters, dead-enders in my opinion, over the rough and ready justice meted out to Osama bin Laden, we, meaning “emerging countries” like India, need to learn a lot about the justice delivery system from that country. The...

  5. The Rise and Fall of Satyam: Part 1

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    / April 21, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By S V L Narayan   In an interview with Business Standard published on April 19, Vineet Nayyar, Chairman, Mahindra Satyam says that for him, “Ramalinga Raju is a ‘Tragic Hero’ who plotted his downfall  step by step and while people commit crime out of greed, Raju did it ‘out...

  6. Building Brand Satyam-Part 3

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    / March 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Going Global   Thanks to the early exploitation of the Y2K business opportunity, Satyam grew much faster than many of its peers. This directly led to the growth in people numbers, that too across geographies. The mandate to my department was to ensure that Satyamites across the world felt one...

  7. Building Brand Satyam : Part II

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    / March 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The Growth Years   By the second half of 1997, Satyam’s media coverage had increased manifold. The press and the media would call us for a quote for including in any IT related article. Communications professionals tend to work out elaborate strategies on how to handle press releases. They generally...

  8. Building Brand Satyam

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    / March 13, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By S V L Narayan   A brand guru once said that it takes years of hard work to build a brand but just one moment of madness to kill it. The Satyam case is a live example of this adage. Late July 1996, I got a call on a...

  9. The founder of `Satyam’

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    / January 5, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By M S Hussain It was this week, two years back, when Byrraju Ramalinga Raju got into his Mercedes SL 500 to drive down to the office of the Andhra Pradesh’s Director General of Police to `surrender’. Being Ramalinga Raju, accorded the former chairman (and `founder’ as he insisted on...

  10. The Ramalinga Raju I knew

    Posted by Venkat Changavalli
    / January 4, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Venkat Changavalli   It was around 10 am on January 7, 2009 that I got a call from Ramalinga Raju. I was in a review meeting, paradoxically conducting a learning session on `How to manage in downturn situations’. Usually if I did not take the call, Raju would just...

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