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Boomerang CEOs: Nandan Nilekani's return to Infosys is a band-aid solution

Murthy left Infosys within a year after appointing a professional CEO; Nilekani might do the same

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Shyamal Majumdar
The return of Nandan Nilekani to Infosys, a company he left a decade ago, is being celebrated by almost everybody. No one can dispute the fact that the celebrated co-founder and former CEO of Infosys has the moral and intellectual heft to quell the ongoing management turmoil. Infosys, Nilekani’s well-wishers say, needs his healing touch to come out of its biggest crisis.

The excitement over Nilekani becoming non-executive chairman is a reminder of the celebrations four years ago when N R Narayana Murthy came back to Infosys as executive chairman after the board invited him to “steer the company back
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