GIM
Ecosystem
Established in 1993,
Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has one of the best learning infrastructure
among business schools. The new campus is spread over 50 acres of land and is
surrounded by the foothills of Western Ghats. GIM has an extremely modern and
hi-tech campus, wherein, Radio Frequency Identity Card (RFID) is used by
students. This card has also helped make GIM the first cashless campus in
India. The campus is designed with energy-efficient electrical fixtures, rain
water harvesting, maximised day lighting and passive environmental controls.
The campus is equipped with state-of-the-art learning infrastructure - lecture
theatres, a 500-seater auditorium, high-definition video conferencing, seamless
access to digital and online library resources, swimming pool and physical
fitness centre possessing modern gym equipment so that student can maintain
their physic and remain healthy. It also features fully-serviced apartments for
students and faculty, cafeterias and cafes, sports and recreational facilities,
and support services such as ATM, communication, convenience stores, and
medical facilities. The sports and recreation centre comprises a gym, swimming
pool, football ground, music room, tennis and basketball courts and a
volleyball court. The entire campus is
Wi-Fi, connected on optic fiber backbone with high end switches, which enables
the students to get round the clock access to all learning resources from their
hostel rooms.
Goa Institute of Management (GIM) sets up a Finance
Lab that integrates theory with real world practice. It is a connect through
live channels and terminals between what students learn in class room and what
in industry happens in concrete terms. Research databases and real-time access
to global financial resources will enable students to link classroom education
to actual financial markets. The Finance Lab at GIM Lab aims to support
advanced applied research in financial markets and build skills of budding
finance managers in the mathematical and conceptual theories and best practices
in financial markets that go into the creation and management of innovative
financial products. Apart from this, the lab also assists in market research;
the industry level data provides information about major players, market share
of each company, product offering etc. Finance lab has 10 terminals of Thomson
Reuters, these terminals provide access to information at global level on
Equities, Commodities & Energy, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Money
markets, economic data, industry data, company data. Over 2,000,000 real time
prices (of various finance securities) are distributed per second, over 1,600,000
companies data is accessible and over 208,000 financial industry peers
collaborate via Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger. The database also provides
economic and company level historic data. Besides that GIM has subscribed to
Economic outlook, Industry outlook, Prowess and CapEx of CMIE (Centre for
Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd.) These products provide data on more than
100,000 economic indicators, industry level data of 193 industries and data of
the financial performance of over 27,000 Indian. Access to all news (including
business) channels is available too in the Lab.
The GIM library attract the students to join their
peers in the quest for knowledge. Being a young and developing management
institute the library has a modest
collection of over 7175 titles, annual reports of around 1000 companies and
stock exchange directory. It has got subscription to around 165 Indian and
International journals. GIM library has tie-up with the University of Ohio,
USA, which assists in updation of titles.
GIM subscribes to some of the best academic and research databases. EBSCO
Publishing is the world's most prolific aggregator of full text journals,
magazines and other sources. It provides quality database products and services
for tens of thousands of libraries around the globe. Proquest from ABI/Inform
Global UMICA Bell & Howell (Company) features abstracts and indexing to
articles and thesis from over 1000 academic, management, marketing and business
journals, with full-page image of over 900 journals. More than 350
international journals provide comprehensive coverage of the global market
place. Indian Business Insight Database (IBID) provides access to Indian
business information gathered from more than 75 resources from India and
International with each story abstracted to give the complete information of
the full article. The database is unique in its indexing capability, with each
story being indexed a Source, Product, Business Term and Industry category
since 1993. CRIS INFAC Research Pro is the user application for information
services of CRISIL. The application provides the user with the information
services such as Economic Analysis, Industry Analysis, Company Analysis, Rating
InfoBase and Key Policy Analysis. VANS is published by VANS ELECTRONIC LIBRARY.
This database contains all the articles published in various Indian Newspapers
and Magazines
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