The Goa Institute of Management (GIM), a premier B-school that is celebrating its 25th anniversary, plans to kick off the year-long celebrations with an address by His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, at the institute on GIM Day. The Dalai Lama is to deliver the keynote address on the topic – Today’s Relevance of India’s Ancient Knowledge.The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will also conduct a six-month intense programme for the faculty and the board of governors of GIM, which will commence this month.
The programme is being conducted by The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director of the Ethics Initiative and Javier Prieto, COO at The Centre at GIM’s expansive campus in Sanquelim, Goa.
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT focuses on the development of interdisciplinary research and programmes in varied fields of knowledge, from science and technology to education and international relations. The programmes emphasise responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organisations, and societies. The Centre was founded to honour the vision of the 14th Dalai Lama and his call for a holistic education that includes the development of human and global ethics.
Big Data Analytics
In its 25th year of operation, GIM has forayed into newer areas. After careful study of the prevailing market for analytics education in the country consistent with GIM’s mission to nurture leaders for sustainable business, the B-school has introduced a two-year, full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PGDM-BDA) programme from academic year 2018-19.
Additionally, the institute has set up an incubation cell as part of the Atal Incubation Centre. The Centre will host Idealab 2018 - a startup event featuring over 300 startups – in October. The institute has also initiated a joint choral performance with the Oxford University Choir, which is scheduled to take place in December 2018.