Goa Institute of Management
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| Motto | Building competence, Developing commitment |
|---|---|
| Type | Education and Research Institution |
| Established | 1993 |
| Dean | Prof. C. M. Ramesh |
| Director | Mr. Peter F.X.D'Lima |
| Postgraduates | 120 + 120 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Fully Residential |
| Nickname | GIM |
| Website | www.gim.ac.in |
The Goa Institute of Management (GIM) is a Business school located in the state of Goa, India.
The autonomous school is governed by a Board, and offers a full-time MBA (PGDBM) program (2 years) and executive MBA (3 years) and also is a resource center for PhD programs in Management for Goa University. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 120 students. Present Director of Goa Institute of Management is Mr. Peter F.X. D'Lima.
History
Located on the banks of the Mandovi river in Goa, the Business School was founded in 1993 when Fr. Romuald D'souza(ex Director - XLRI (Xavier Labour Relations Institute), Jamshedpur and XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a center of learning and excellence in Goa. [1]
Infrastructure
The Campus, located at Ribandar, on a hillslope, is housed in a Heritage Building Santa Casa De Misericordia The Royal Portuguese Hospital, dating back to the Portuguese Rule in Goa. The building, in which the school is housed, is supposed to be one of the earliest Hospitals in India and only in 1993 was converted from a Hospital building to a Business School Campus.
Keeping its Hospital legacy, the Campus is divided in the following blocks.
- Admin
- Library
- Office
- Operations Theatre known as OT
- Morgue
- Hill Top
- Ladies Hostel
- Joe's
- The Quadrangle (Quad)
- Mess
- Jaggu's
Library
The library subscribes to most major national and international business and industry publications. The Institute provides access to various online databases and sources of information like Proquest, CMIE, Capitaline, and EBSCO.
Affiliations & Linkages
- Approved by the All India Council of Technical Education of the Government of India (AICTE) for offering postgraduate courses in management at the MBA level.
- Recognized by the Government of Goa and by many of the major industrial corporations in the country
- Member of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, which facilitates linkages for collaboration and exchange among some 60 Business Schools in 25 different countries in various parts of the world.
- Hosted Joint Study projects for two years in which 12 MBA students of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA, under the guidance of their faculty, have worked with 12 GIM students in teams of four, on projects assigned to them by local industries.
- Ongoing tie-up with The University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen) for facilitating student interaction and joint study.
- Student exchange program with, Fachhochshule Ingolstadt, Germany (upto 5 students)
Notable Goa Institute of Management people
Current and past faculty members
- Fr. Romuald D'souza
- N Casimir Raj,S.J.
- C.M. Ramesh
- Uday Damodaran [2]
- Arindam Das-Gupta [3]
- Trishit Bandyopadhyay
- Suma Damodaran
- Dr. Suranjan Das [4]
- Kshama Fernandes [5]
- C Mirchandani
Alumni (MBA and executive programs)
- Mrunmay Das-Chief Investment Officer, Azim Premji Investments (P) Ltd [[6]]
- Gagan Banga,Executive Director, India Bulls [[7]]
- Perry Goes-Assistant VP, United Breweries
- Abhishek Jha,EA to CEO, Bajaj Hindusthan
- Ketan Hajarnavis,COO,Calibre
Ranking
- Indian Business Magazine BusinessWorld India has ranked GIM as 18th in Best B-Schools in India for the year 2004. BusinessWorld India 2004
- August 23, 2005 As per Rediff.com, GIM ranks amongst the 15 Top institutes offering the MBA degree or equivalents in India [8]
- GIM has been ranked 17th in the BusinessWorld India's Cosmode BW survey for the year 2005. [9]
Upcoming Events
- Confabulation'06- Emerging trends in Consumer Markets
- Ribandar Talks, A lecture series by Eminent Personalities
This section will be updated as and when new events are announced.
Past Events
Patent Symposium 2005, was held by the Goa Institute of Management, Ribandar (GIM) was concluded successfully at the Cidade De Goa resort. This conclave, held in light of the new Intellectual Property regime coming to India, featured speakers like Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Dr. Arno Hartmann, Corporate Head of Patents, Merck Germany and Dr. Anji Reddy, Chairman of Dr Reddy's Labs.
The keynote speaker, Mr. N R Madhav Menon, founder of the National Law School in Bangalore gave a critique of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), while suggesting a separate TRIPS agreement for traditional knowledge.
Dr. Anji Reddy, described by Forbes as the ‘'Face of the new Indian Pharmaceutical Industry'’ described how his firm has successfully turned into a leading research-driven organization. Dr. Reddy exhorted the industry to look at the tremendous new opportunities that the new scenario provided, and be driven by a passion for excellence.
Other speakers included P Mazumdar, Director, Syngenta; Dr. Keayla, National Working Group on Patents and Professor V. Gopal of the Goa Institute of Management. This symposium was organized by the Goa Institute of Management, Ribandar as a student initiative in its quest to mobilize Corporate India to be creative and swift to survive and flourish in rapidly changing global conditions.
External links
- Goa Institute of Management
- Placement Report 2006
- Placement Report 2005
- ALUMNI Website
- Conferencia Logistica, GIM's Logistics Conference
References
- A management success, Frontline, Volume 21 - Issue 25, Dec. 04 - 17, 2004 [10]
- BusinessWorld India's Cosmode BW survey for the year 2005 [11]
Contact Details
Goa Institute of Management, Ribandar Goa 403006,
Telephone- 0091-832-2444638, 2444819 Fax: 0091-832-2444136 E-mail: admin@gim.ac.in