Kaitlyn Thompson
Professor Lichtenstein
GB110 001
Video Extra Credit “Every brand you know is our client”, (Shibulau), states this opinion of his former company based on the high performance and revenue that the company Infosys has created. Infosys an Indian company is a leading global leader in business consulting, technology, and outsourcing resolutions. Its focus is on building tomorrow’s enterprise, the company enables clients in more than 900 countries to outperform the competition and stay ahead of the innovation curve. This company focuses first and foremost on giving their clients an advantage, not only do they help manage their businesses, Infosys allows them to focus on their core business priorities. Infosys provides these companies with strategic insights on the future so that they can help them transform and thrive in the rapidly changing world of innovation, through strategic consulting and the breakthrough solutions like mobility, sustainability and cloud-computing. Infosys’s former CEO, S.D. Shibulau, talks about the ethical corporate governance of Infosys, he discusses the major ethical points that outline the company’s success in the global market. Corporate governance is about maximizing shareholder value both legally and ethically. The goal of corporate governance at Infosys is to ensure fairness for every stakeholder that operates within the company. Infosys believes that comprehensive corporate governance is critical in enhancing and retaining investor trust, they always seek to ensure that their performance is driven by integrity. They share their wealth with their employees and have created an employee stock option plan, which is an opportunities for employees to get stock in the company. Also Infosys Science Foundation, a non-profit organization is set up to promote research in applied sciences, at which they were nominated for comprising outstanding internal personalities selected by the trustees of the foundation. A foundation was also set up to support their social initiatives, the foundation supports programs and organizations devoted to the case of destitute, the rural poor and the mentally challenged. As ranked in the top 8 global green companies, Infosys has the green creativity to minimizing the least amount of impact on the environment. An important ethical point of Infosys is that they comply with a firm commitment to follow global business practices within the Euro shareholders Corporate Governance Guidelines, which shows their trustworthy ethical obligation as a