Phaneesh Murthy has Company

Phaneesh Murthy: He is the man behind Infosys' US business, and was known as the blue-eyed boy of Infosys co-founders, Narayana Murthy and Nandan Nilekani. Murthy rose to head global operations from California and was appointed as director of Infosys and Infosys BPO in May 2000.

In 2002, his former executive secretary Reka Maximovitch, a Bulgarian American national, filed the lawsuit against him, complaining of sexual harassment. This cost him his job and the case was later settled out-of-court for a sum of $3 mn.

After that, he became the chief executive officer of iGate Corporation in 2003, after the company acquired his start-up Quintant. Under his tenure, iGate acquired Patni Computer Systems in 2011 for $1.22 bn. Within a span of 10 years, iGate transformed into a profit-making company from a loss-making company. Its revenues grew from $2 mn to $750 mn.

However, the board of iGate sacked Murthy after an investigation revealed that he was involved in a relationship with a subordinate employee Araceli Roiz and a sexual harassment case was filed against him. Murthy, however, denied all the charges, saying it's a case of extortion.

Tiger Woods: The world's most successful American golfer Tiger Woods was the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years, according to Forbes.

Woods won 78 official PGA Tour events, second only to Sam Snead, and five ahead of Jack Nicklaus with 73 wins. He was the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000-2001 seasons. This feat became known as the ‘Tiger Slam'. But his multiple infidelities revealed by different women took a toll on his career. As a result, he lost his golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of #58 in November 2011.

Woods took leave from work between December 2009 to early April 2010 to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Better known as DSK in the media. Strauss-Kahn was a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party. He became the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on September 28, 2007, with the support of his country's president Nicolas Sarkozy.

He was an economics professor at Sciences Po, and also under Lionel Jospin's ‘Plural Left' government, Kahn served as the Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999. He sought the nomination in the primaries to the socialist presidential candidacy for the 2007 election, but he was beaten by Ségolène Royal in November 2006.

Following allegations that he had sexually assaulted a hotel employee, Kahn resigned on May 18, 2011. His arrest led to intense political chaos across the Atlantic.

David Davidar: Davidar, an Indian novelist and publisher, is the author of three published novels-The House of Blue Mangoes (2002), The Solitude of Emperors (2007), and Ithaca (2011).

Simultaneously, he worked as a publisher for a quarter century. He was the co-founder of Aleph Book Company, a publishing firm based in New Delhi.

In 2010, he was allegedly accused by a former colleague of sexual harassment, after that Davidar left Penguin. However, he dismissed the allegations which were dropped after the parties reached a settlement.

David Petraeus: The four-star general ran the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, involving questions on national security, politics and even the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Since September 2011, he had been the CIA director.

Before taking post as director of CIA, Petraeus served more than 37 years in the US Army. He was commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and also commanded forces in Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

Petraeus resigned from his post after he acknowledged his affair with Paula Broadwell, a fellow West Point graduate who spent months studying the general's leadership of the US forces in Afghanistan. The sex scandal triggered a media storm, following his confession and resignation.