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Goa Institute of Management
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 centre 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 Peter F.X. D'Lima. GIM was ranked 16th in the 2008 MINT Survey of private B-schools in India.
GIM View from River Mandovi
History
Located at Ribandar just around 3 km from Panjim, the Business School was founded in 1993 when Fr. Romuald D'Souza (ex Director - XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIMB, Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a center of learning and excellence in Goa.
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.
Infrastructure
The Campus, situated on the banks of the picturesque Mandovi river, 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 was converted from a Hospital building to a Business School Campus only in 1993. Today, it has better infrastructure such as Wi-fi connected campus, fully networked hostels and AC classrooms. Keeping its Hospital legacy, some of the campus blocks still carry their past names. For example, the Operation Theatre is now the Boy’s Hostel but it is still referred to as the OT. The various blocks are
• Admin
• Library
• Office
• OT (Mens’ Hostel)
• Morgue (Second Ladies Hostel)
• Hill Top (Mens’ Hostel)
• Ladies Hostel
• Mess
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, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Capitaline, and EBSCO.
Placements
Over the years, Goa Institute of Management has earned the enviable reputation of being one of the finest management schools in the country. This year, GIM and its students weathered what is probably one of the worst economic downturns in recent times with aplomb. While placements in all B-schools around the country got badly affected, GIM did significantly better than most. As a placement co-ordinator puts it, "At GIM, we believe in long term relationships with our recruiters and they have in turn rewarded us for this." Over 40 companies showed an interest in visiting the campus to select the candidates who best suited their requirements. The final placements in 2008-09 featured a diversity of sectors with good representation from BFSI, FMCG, Consulting, IT/ITES, Telecom, Auto & Manufacturing, Market Research, Travel & Hospitality and the Pharmaceutical/Medical sectors. Major recruiters representing various sectors were Johnson & Johnson Medical India, HSBC, Tata Capital, Vodafone, Wipro Consumer Care, Wipro Technologies, UB Group, IMRB, Thomas Cook, Loop Telecom, Tata Motors, Novartis, Deloitte, HP, eClerx, Godrej & Boyce, etc. GIM received a total of 125 offers including 8 pre-placement Offers for 119 students.
•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)
Events
•Ribandar Talks, a lecture series by Eminent Personalities organised round the academic year. Some of the noted speakers to have visited GIM include Dr. Kiran Bedi, Mr. K.V. Sridhar (National Creative Director, Leo Burnett, India), Mr.Sandeep Dasgupta (CEO, Deutsche MF) and Dr. Arun Jaura (CTO, Mahindra & Mahindra).
•Samriddhi - A National level conference addressing issues touching various spheres of development and striving at finding practical and viable solutions. This conference will be held on the 29th and 30th of August this year.The theme for Samriddhi 09 is ‘Social Entrepreneurship’. The conference this year aims at looking at entrepreneurship as an opportunity in these times of recessionary blues and unleashing the aspect of Social Entrepreneurship which aims at creating not just a pool of wealth for a selected few but also a larger and desired impact on the society.
•Walk For India – Held on the 15th of August. This is a medium through which the students express their solidarity with a social cause.
•WIZBIZ - A national level corporate quiz event which attracts participants from companies across India.
Initiatives
•Goa Institute of Management hosted the Nettech Summer Program 2008 for Engineering students from all over India (15th May to 8th June 2008).
Notable alumni
•Mrunmay Das Chief Investment Officer, Azim Premji Investments (P) Ltd
•Gagan Banga, Executive Director, India Bulls
•Vishal Jain, Fund Manager, Benchmark MF
•Dwijendra Srivastava, Fund manager-JM Financial Asset Management Pvt. Ltd
Student Public Relations Cell
Goa Institute of Management
