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Encyclopedia > Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award

In 2002, the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Infosys started the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award. This technology award recognizes enterprises and individuals who have transformed their businesses and their societies leveraging information technology. Image File history File links Whartan. ... The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is a business school at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. The school was founded by Joseph Wharton, who also was one of the founders of Swarthmore College (founded in 1864), in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the United States. ... The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is an information technology (IT) company founded in Bangalore, India in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy. ...


Previous Winners

Category Region 2002 2003 2004 2005
Organization-wide Business Transformation North America Capital One Imperial Sugar Amazon.com InnoCentive
Greenpoint Mortgage
Asia-Pacific National Stock Exchange of India Standard Chartered Bank ITC eChoupal Samsung Electronics
EMEA Schlumberger Oilfield Services Fujitsu-Siemens Computers S.P. Korolev RSC Energia Royal Bank of Scotland
ING Direct
Latin America Cemex TecMédica
Technology Change Leader
North America Warren Lieberfarb, President, Warner Home Video Dan Bricklin, CTO, Interland / Trellix Dr Charles Simonyi, Co-Founder, Intentional Software Corporation Vivek Ranadivé
Martin Cooper, Chairman, CEO & Co-founder ArrayComm
Asia-Pacific Takeshi Natsuno, Managing Director, NTT DoCoMo Chuan-zhi Liu, Chairman, Legend Holdings William Ding, Founder and Chief Architect, NetEase Ying Wu, Vice Chairman & CEO, UTStarcom China
EMEA John Browett, CEO, Tesco.com Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman, ARM Holdings Yair Goldfinger, Co-Founder & CTO, Dotomi
Mart Laar, Prime Minister, Estonia
Latin America Juan Toro, Commissioner, SII, Chile Francisco Martinez de Valesco

Capital One Financial Corp. ... Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer with refining operations in California, Georgia and Louisiana. ... Amazon. ... The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), is one of the largest and most advanced stock markets in India. ... Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, SEHK: 2888) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in many countries, especially in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. ... Samsung Electronics (hangul: 삼성전자; hanja: 三星電子; revised: Samseong Jeonja; McCune-Reischauer: Samsŏng Chŏnja) is an electronics company headquartered in Seoul, Korea. ... Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government and business purposes. ... Schlumberger Oilfield Services, a division of Schlumberger Limited, is the world’s largest supplier of exploration and production (E&P) services, solutions and technology to the international petroleum industry. ... S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (also known as RKK Energiya) is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. ... The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is one of Scotlands three national clearing banks and one of the oldest in the UK, founded in Edinburgh in 1727 by Royal Charter. ... ING Direct is a branchless direct bank with operations in Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. ... Cemex SA de CV (NYSE: CX) is the worlds third largest manufacturer of cement[1] and the worlds leading supplier of ready-mix concrete. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Trellix was a software company whose various software offerings allowed web users to set up personal websites with the use of online publishing tools. ... Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly) is a computer software developer, who, as head of Microsofts application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsofts flagship office applications. ... This article is in need of improvement. ... Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola Martin Cooper inventor of the cell phone. ... ArrayComm is a wireless communications software company based in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. ... NTT DoCoMo, Inc. ... Lenovo Group Limited (Chinese: ; pinyin: Liánxiǎng Jítuán Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), formerly known as Legend Group Ltd and New Technology Developer Incorporated (SEHK: 0992), is the largest personal computer manufacturer in the Peoples Republic of China, and as of 2004 is the third largest... NetEase (網易) NASDAQ: NTES is a Chinese Internet company that operates 163. ... UTStarcom is a Fortune 1000 company specialising in IP-based networking products. ... Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government and business purposes. ... Tesco plc is a United Kingdom-based international supermarket chain. ... The entrance to ARMs headquarters in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, UK ARM Holdings plc is a technology company headquartered in England, founded in 1990. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... Mart Laar (April 22, 1960 in Viljandi), was the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. ...

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