Page 1 of 29/Director’s Report Goa Institute of Management DIRECTOR‟S REPORT Mr. Chauker, our eminent Convocation speaker,Chairman and Members of the Governing Board, Distinguished Guests, Members of GIMFaculty, and Visiting Faculty, Members of our staff, Alumni of our Institute, Graduating students and their parents and our first year students. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this Annual Convocation ceremony of students graduating from the Goa Institute of Management. We are honoredindeed by our Convocation speaker for the day Mr. Kishore A Chaukerformer Managing Director, of Tata industries Ltd. TIL is one of the two principal holding companies of the Tata Group, India‟s largest and the best- known conglomerate. TIL acts as the new projects-promotion arm of the Group, and spearheads the entry of the Group in the emerging high-tech and sunrise sectors of the economy. While at TIL, Mr. Chaukar was also a member of the Group Corporate Centre, which is engaged in strategy formation at the House of Tata. Mr. Chaukar chaired for several years the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) – the nodal forum of the Group on matters related to Corporate Sustainability, and was a member of the Board and Advisory Board of some national and international organizations in the Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights space. Mr. Chaukar is a Member of the Boards of several Tata Companies and the Chairman of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd., Tata Business Support Services. Mr. Chaukar is a Trustee of Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) Development Research Foundation. Dr. Sunil Rai Director Mr. Gopalakrishnan Chairman
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Goa Institute of Management DIRECTOR‟S REPORT
Mr. Chauker, our eminent Convocation speaker,Chairman and Members of the
Governing Board, Distinguished Guests, Members of GIMFaculty, and Visiting
Faculty, Members of our staff, Alumni of our Institute, Graduating students
and their parents and our first year students. It gives me great pleasure to
welcome you to this Annual Convocation ceremony of students graduating from
the Goa Institute of Management.
We are honoredindeed by our Convocation speaker for the day Mr. Kishore A
Chaukerformer Managing Director, of Tata industries Ltd. TIL is one of the two
principal holding companies of the Tata Group, India‟s largest and the best-
known conglomerate. TIL acts as the new projects-promotion arm of the Group,
and spearheads the entry of the Group in the emerging high-tech and sunrise
sectors of the economy.
While at TIL, Mr. Chaukar was also a member of the Group Corporate Centre,
which is engaged in strategy formation at the House of Tata. Mr. Chaukar
chaired for several years the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) – the
nodal forum of the Group on matters related to Corporate Sustainability, and
was a member of the Board and Advisory Board of some national and
international organizations in the Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights
space.
Mr. Chaukar is a Member of the Boards of several Tata Companies and the
Chairman of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd., Tata Business Support
Services. Mr. Chaukar is a Trustee of Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation
(BAIF) Development Research Foundation.
Dr. Sunil Rai
Director Mr. Gopalakrishnan
Chairman
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Prior to joining Tatas, Mr. Chaukar was the Managing Director of ICICI Securities
& Finance Company Limited from July 1993 to October 1998, and a member of
the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited from February 9, 1995 to October 15,
1998. During 1975 to 1985, he served as an Executive Secretary of Bharatiya
Agro Industries Foundation, an NGO engaged in extending relevant technology
into rural India for generating economically remunerative employment.
He holds a BA degree in Economics from Karnataka University and a Post-
Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad. He also holds a DEA in Rural Economics from the University of
Dijon, France.
Mr. Chaukaris known to be a strategy builder for large corporate initiatives and a
champion of corporate sustainability and human rights. He is a motivational
speaker par excellence and I am quite confident that our graduating students
and our faculty would surely benefit from the very sound advice he will give us.
His words of wisdom are bound to stand the graduating students in good stead
as they launch themselves into their corporate careers.
Let me now present to you the director‟s Report for the year. Since the report
gets longer as the activities of the institute grow I shall read only the highlights
and you can read the details in the full report which is available.
1. THE GIM CAMPUS AT PORIEM IN SATTARI TALUKA.
The GIM campus at Sanquelim has now bloomed into its full splendor with
state of the art facilities for students and faculty amongst rich flora and
fauna in the scenic background of Sahyadri hills. The infrastructure is
second to none in our country and we shall all look forward to its
successful utilization to heighten our capabilities.
We have now entered the first phase of our expansion and the speed and
finesse with which our project team under the able guidance of our Project
Director Mr. P.F.X. D‟ lima, is making progress, we are certain that
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additional facilities like Swimming pool, Tennis courts, Basketball court,
Visiting faculty hostel and International Students Hostels will be
commissioned before the commencement of next academic year
We acknowledge the support of our members of the Board who have lent
their support by way of donations, their valuable time and their guidance
that enabled us complete the project in time and also undertake the
extension phase. We thank Shri PratapsinghjiRane fir his continued
support and guidance. The relentless efforts of our project Director Mr.
PFX D‟ lima, Mr. Raman Madhok, Mr. Dean Menezes and Mr.
ShrinivasDempo have been the driving spirit in successful handling of all
infrastructure and other regulatory issues.
We greatly appreciate the support we received from the Government of Goa
and the Education Department who have always been supportive of GIM
and our activities.We thank our architect M/s Somaya and Kalappa and
the contractor M/s Candeparker and Associates for the progress of the
work. We acknowledge the support of the local Panchayat and the Town
and Country Planning Department, Government of Goa for providing
approvals and supports.
We also thank our Bankers, Bank of India with a special mention of the
support rendered to us by Mr. A.K. Arora, Zonal Manager and Mr. V.K.
Chetiwal, Manager for providing their guidance and support to obtain the
necessary approvals for loan to fund the extension project.
2. FACULTY
Our faculty are the back bone of our institute and we look up to them to
set a good example in discipline, diligence and innovative initiatives. The
faculty, besides commitment to teaching is actively engaged in mentoring
students and guiding them for superior performance in extracurricular
activities, social projects and developmental activities. Some of our faculty
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are working closely with Government and Industry in Goa on various
consultancy and applied research projects. A detailed list of our faculty is
given on the next page.
GIM FACULTY (As on March 30, 2013) Director: Dr Sunil Rai
Dean Academics: Dr N Sambandham
A. General Management Designation 1. DebabrataSen* Senior Professor 2. Susan Hague* Professor (Full Bright Scholar) 3. RaghuveerVernekar Associate Professor 4. Cedric Serpes Associate Professor 5. DivyaSinghal* Assistant Professor 6. Hemant Padhiari* Assistant Professor
B. Finance & Economics
7. Arindam Dasgupta* Senior Professor 8. Manish Parmar Assistant Professor 9. Abhishek Ranga* Assistant Professor 10. Amiya Kumar Sahu** Assistant Professor 11. Vinay Goyal* Assistant Professor 12. KaushikDesarkar Assistant Professor 13. Joy Chowduary** Senior Lecturer 14. Fernanda Andrade** Research Associate 15. Manas Mayur** Senior Lecturer
C. Marketing
16. AjitParulekar ** Associate Professor / Associate Dean (HCM) 17. TarunPasricha Associate Professor 18. Jagrook Dawra* Associate Professor 19. Ranbir Singh Sodhi Assistant Professor 20. Nirmalaya Bandyopadhyay** Assistant Professor 21. Kanupriya Katyal** Assistant Professor 22. Pravat Surya Kar* Assistant Professor 23. Ayesha Gonsalves Assistant Professor 24. SubrataMajumdar Assistant Professor(Adjunct Faculty)
D. POM
25. P.F.X D’Lima Professor/Director Projects 26. N Sambandam* Senior Professor / Dean Academics 27. Prabir Kumar Bandyopadhyay* Professor 28. Raj V. Amonkar Associate Professor 29. Jaideep S. Gupte Senior Lecturer
E. Systems /IT
30. Sunil Rai* Senior Professor/ Director 31. Rakesh Shrivastava Professor
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32. Vithal Sukhathankar** Associate Professor
E. OB & HRM
33. C.M. Ramesh* Professor 34. RanjiniSwamy* Professor 35. Christo Fernandes* Assistant Professor 36. V Padhmanabhan** Senior Lecturer 37. A.G. Balasubramanian* Professor – (Adjunct Faculty) 38. GayatriKonkar Adjunct Faculty (Counseling)
G. Health Care Management
39. Harish Shihare Associate Professor 40. AdeshChaturvedi Associate Professor 41. MeenaParulekar Assistant Professor
*Ph.D, **Pursuing Ph.D.
3. UPDATES ON CURRICULUM
The Curriculum at GIM is kept current and relevant to the needs of
industry through a series of interventions and review. The curriculum is
reviewed by the Area Committees based on the inputs from the Faculty,
Students, Alumni, Industry experts and renowned Academicians. The
Updates/Modifications to the curriculum are then discussed in the faculty
council meeting before recommendations are made to the academic
council. The curriculum after due modifications and updates as approved
by the Academic council is put up to the Governing Board for approval and
promulgating in the ensuing academic year.Some of the Academic
interventions that have enrich the academic delivery at GIM are given
below:
3.1 GIVE GOA – A CSR PROJECT
The GiveGoa initiative makes students more socially responsible as they get
an opportunity to engage with the under-served sections of society and take
responsibility for improving their lives in small but significant ways. This
year we obtained about 60 projects as against about 50 projects in 2011-12.
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We also teamed up with new organizations such as NABARD, the National
Association for the Blind (NAB), the Voluntary Health Association, Goa
(VHAG) and the Directorate of Health Services (DHS), to offer an exciting
range of projects.
The initiative has received a positive response from many client
organizations that collaborated with us this year. Many have expressed an
interest in continuing the projects and building on past ones. Other
organizations such as CIPLA, South Asian Foundation and the Centre for
Innovation & Business Acceleration (CIBA)have expressed interest in offering
projects next year.
This year, students of first year organized a flash-mob- cum- street play at
Caculo Mall, Panjim on 14 Feb 2013 as part of the International initiative
called “Onebillion Rising,” to highlight the need for women’s empowerment.
About 30 students participated in the El-Shaddei- initiated marathon, as
volunteers and participants. The students are also organizing for the
distribution of clothes and books (collected from the second-years) to the
needy through El-Shaddei.
We are very grateful to the Board and the Faculty for their support and look
forward to their continued support in the future. We are in the process of
systematically gathering information about the perceptions of students,
faculty, clients and beneficiaries about this year’s experiences. We will keep
our stakeholders informed about the findings of the study.
3.2 Reduced contact hours in class
We are in the process of reducing the number of contact hours in class so
as to allow our students more time for the preparation for the class based
on the course outline and analyses of the case studies.This also
encourages independent individual study by students so that in the class
the faculty can stimulate and facilitate good discussion and exchange of
views in a learning experience, in line with our Education philosophy. This
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also provides time for undertaking extracurricular initiatives that help
students develop wholesome corporate personality. This is in line with the
recommendations of an AICTE committee which is chaired by our Dean
Prof. N. Sambandam.
3.3 ACCENT ON INNOVATION
Our „curriculum‟ encourages process of discovery and invention of new
ways of living to widen the scope of management education to enhance its
relevance. Some of the innovations recently added to our teaching learning
scheme are given below:
„Leadership SQ: The Vedic Way’: is an elective course developed by Prof.
TarunPasricha. This course is based on the premise that ancient Indian
wisdom as embodied in the Vedas can contribute directly to the nurturing
of many of the above traits, resulting in leadership with a high SQ. Besides
contributing to leadership SQ, the course would encourage students to
manage stress and enhance equanimity.
Social Leadership - Film based teaching: Professor RanjiniSwamy
offered a course on Leadership in which she uses films extensively, e.g.
she showed „Bawander- A sand Storm‟ a very powerful film on the life of
Bhawari Devi of Rajasthan in her session on social leadership. The use of
films as a different media to engage the learner with various social,
political, ethical issues in a different manner creates a strong „sticking‟
power.
‘Strategy and Innovation for Base of Pyramid Markets’: An elective
course developed by Prof. Hemant Padhiari to explore the alignment
between business oriented incentives for growth, innovation, profits and
the development community effort to create a more inclusive capitalism.
Students are able to appreciate the larger role for market based ventures
in serving the needs of the poor and gain practical tools and frameworks
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for developing and evaluating business approaches that can productively
address unmet social needs for those at the base of the economic pyramid
‘Lyrics and Management’: an elective course developed by Dr.
DivyaSinghalgives future managers a deeper understanding of cultural
mores and traditions through Lyrics. It is necessary for being able to
successfully market to consumers in an ever changing context and to
manage people. The course provides insights, lessons and reflection into
life, both in relationships with others and also with ourselves as
individuals which is very important from managerial aspect and to
enhance one‟s inter-personal intelligence.
„Thinking Skills for Managers’: A course introduced by Professor
RaghuveerVernakar, aims at developing a focused attitude towards
change and towards new ideas. In this course he deals with approaches
to thinking with practical exercises in the class.
3.4 CREATIVITY
We are in the process of developing a Creative Lab, an initiative spear
headed by Prof Cedric Serpes.The concept for the Creative Labs in GIM is
loosely based on MIT‟s Media Labs. This is another effort to create a
point of differentiation between our GIM brand and other Indian B
schools. The Creative Labs at GIM will be an outlet where ideas can be
encouraged and executed and where the constant fusing of multiple
disciplines will make students into innovative thinkers. The labs will
encourage creativity in all forms. From the art of story-telling and voice
acting to clay, paper and dust sculpting to stand-up comedy.
3.5 PROJECT ON REVIVAL OF SICK UNITS
GIM continues to work with the Government to revive some sick units in
Goa. This is being taken up under the guidance of Prof. Debabrata Sen
and with the support of his students. This exercise is being done as part
of our course on entrepreneurship. An Incubation cell is being developed
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at Ribandar Campus, to be made available to GIM and other graduates/
entrepreneurs in Goa.
3.6 THIRD LANGUAGE CLASSE
As globalization, mobility and communications are bringing the world
closerthe need for management students to learn another language
opens up new opportunities and gives a perspective that students might
never have encountered otherwise. GIM offersthe third language courses
in German, Portuguese, French and Spanish Language. In year 2012-
2013 GIM successfully ran Basic courses in German, Spanish and
Portuguese and first time organized an advance level course in German.
Eleven students were refunded their fees for language courses as they
had secured more than 80 % and had also attended all the sessions of
respective courses as this was promised by director at the time of their
joining the institute. Six students who have cleared their Basic Course in
German Language showed their interest in advance level course which
was organized for them during December 2012 and March 08th, 2013.