Goa Institute of Management
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| Motto: | Developing competence, Building commitment |
| Established: | 1993 |
| Type: | Education and Research Institution |
| Dean: | Prof. C. M. Ramesh |
| Director: | Prof. C.M. Ramesh |
| Postgraduates: | 120 + 120 |
| Location: | Ribandar, Goa, India |
| 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 Prof. C.M. Ramesh.
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[edit] 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].He along with Prof. Anwar Ali,Prof C.M. Ramesh, Prof. Ranjini Swamy, Prof. V. Gopal, Prof. Suma Damodaran, and Prof Uday Damodaran started the institute . They managed to convince the then chief minister of Goa who also happened to be the brother of Fr.Romuald D'souza to lease the campus of Goa Dental College .
[edit] 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. Today, it has AC class rooms and can boast of totally networked hostel room. Students complete their assignment online and paperwork has become things of past
Keeping its Hospital legacy, some of the campus blocks still carry their past names.The various blocks are
- Admin
- Library
- Office
- Operations Theatre known as OT
- Morgue
- Hill Top
- Ladies Hostel
- Joe's
- The Quadrangle (Quad)
- Mess
- Jaggu's
- Kailash
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 (up to 5 students)[2]
[edit] 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 [3]
- GIM has been ranked 17th in the BusinessWorld India's Cosmode BW survey for the year 2005. [4]
[edit] Upcoming events
- Ribandar Talks, A lecture series by Eminent Personalities
- Samriddhi 2007 - GIM Finance Conference : Financing India's Growth
(This section will be updated as and when new events are announced.)
[edit] Past events
- Castalia - The Fountain of Inspiration , on 11th & 12th August '07 - An international Conference on Retaining Talent
- Conferencia Logistica, on 2nd and 3rd September'06 - A Nationwide Logistics Conference
- Confabulations 05
[edit] Alumni
- Mrunmay Das-Chief Investment Officer, Azim Premji Investments (P) Ltd [[5]]
- Gagan Banga, Executive Director, India Bulls [[6]]
- Vishal Jain, Fund Manager, Benchmark MF [7]
- Abhishek Agarwal,Managing Director, Relq International Ltd, Mauritius
- Perry Goes-Assistant VP, United Breweries
- Puneet Mahajan, CFO, GE Japan
- Abhishek Jha, EA to CEO, Bajaj Hindusthan
- Ketan Hajarnavis, COO, Calibre
- Sridhar V.,CFO, RAK Investment Authority, UAE
- Maneesh Dangi, Fund manager- Birla sunlife mf
- Mohammad Qureshi, Director, Duracell
- Dwijendra Srivastava, Fund manager-JM Financial Asset Management Pvt. Ltd [8][9]
- Sharad Kumar Sharma, Oracle Consultant, Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
