Management and research have been an essential factor of human civilization since the beginning of time, developing and sustaining the social order; today, it has come a long way, still providing its original aim of development and organization.
However, subjecting to the change of the time, the forms of research and management have changed positively, leading to continuous economic development and enhancing the lifestyle of humans around the globe. And today, it has emerged as a field of study with great importance as it obtains managerial, entrepreneurial and technical skills.
Management skills could lead businesses towards success and usher in many technological advancements, which lead overall development of the world. Driving the zeal, many institutes have been indulging the managerial and entrepreneurial skills of budding entrepreneurs.
Among all others, Dr Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management and Research (GHS-IMR) is shaping the student’s bright future through its two-year full-time PGDM flagship program. The institute emphasizes technical, professional and managerial education; meanwhile, it stresses indulging social and cultural responsibility in its students.
After getting an insightful view of the institute, Dr Rahul Goyal, the Director of GHS-IMR, shared his valuable experience and learning. He also mentions the institute’s journey since its inception and the future goal of the institute with The Education view.
The Budding Tale of the Institute
Dr Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management and Research (GHS-IMR) is one of the oldest and premier management institutes established in 1995 by J.K. Organization. It is 136-year-old India’s leading and respected industrial conglomerate.
The institute has been working towards academic excellence and development of management skills through its flagship PGDM full-time program for two years, which has been approved by the All-India Council of Technical Education and Research (AICTE), Ministry of H.R.D. (Govt. of India) & NAAC “B+” Accredited.
GHS-IMR aims to develop students’ technical, professional, and managerial excellence and social and cultural sensitivity. Besides emphasizing the importance of management ethics, the institute is also concerned for the environment and stresses students to become ‘environment-friendly’ to ensure society’s overall sustainable development.
The practical knowledge and accredited course based on industry requirements and research are delivered by well-qualified and experienced faculty. The institute enhances the ’employability quotient’ of students and thus gets placed immediately by the employers through the strong industry links of the GHS-IMR.
The institute’s 27 batches have successfully passed out from the college, and more than 2200 students serve in leading companies in India. GHS-IMR has been recognized as a ‘Centre of Academic Excellence’ by national and international organizations.
Since its establishment, the institute has been achieving its milestones, and Dr Rahul Goyal has been contributing a lot to make it the best management institute globally. Apart from GHS-IMR, he has achieved many academic goals in his life, which have been discussed.
A Passionate Mentor
Dr Rahul Goyal is the Director of the GHS-IMR; he has more than 26 years of academic and administrative experience mentoring various groups of colleges. He has worked closely with organizations like NCTE, AICTE, UPTU, C.C.S. University and U.P. Government for affiliation and other concerned works.
Dr Rahul Goyal is known in the academic field as a go-getter leader. His able mentorship institute entered M.O.U.s with I.B.M., Wadwani International Foundation, Synergy University Moscow and many more universities and organizations of world fame.
While reminiscing all the passionate performances of Dr Rahul, his valuable contribution and the defined vision, mission and core values of the institute trailblaze consistently to achieve the milestones of the GHS-IMR.
Vision, Mission and Core Values
While stating about the institute’s journey, Dr Rahul also mentions the institute’s set vision, saying, “To be an institute engaged in creating thought leaders through innovative research, consulting and by being alma-mater of next practices.”
He also mentions the valuable mission of the institute. He asserts, “To be a management institute where today’s students become tomorrow’s management leaders, driven by a passion for discovering, innovating and creating opportunities in the environment not only for self-development but also for the society. It is aimed at creating managers, with a holistic approach, synthesizing conventional and modern management thinking with a global outlook and adapting to the changing requirements of the business.”
Further, he stated the institute’s core values and says, “Dedication-Discipline-Determination! These 3Ds are the core of our values, synthesizing conventional and modern management thinking. We aim to provide a global outlook and capabilities of adapting to the changing requirements of the business industries.”
The vision, mission, and core values always show the right direction to organizations and institutes. But, with these, the institute does have some long-term and short-term goals for its development.
Abiding and Interim Goals
GHS-IMR try to formulate the curriculum; with these, the students can identify their fields and get aware of the current industrial developments. The institute encourages the students to learn new and demanding technical skills.
Ensuring the students’ insightful understanding of the concepts, the institute keeps improving its curriculum every year. Due to the pandemic, the institute has become unpredictable about its long-term goals.
Instead of setting abiding goals, the institute does define its interim goals, which helps them to move forward. And GHS-IMR is adopting modernization ways to teach the students, also improving the infrastructure to cope with the rapid development and keeping up with the current education strata industry leader.
With all these goals, Dr Rahul has introduced a few unique learning programs to improve the students’ skillsets.
Collateral Learning
The world is now being more integrated through remote jobs, while the digital marketing industry in India is growing at a rate of 33.5%. The country is just pegged after Canada as the second-best digital hub.
GHS-IMR realizing this opportunity, introduced digital Marketing in the year 2014, simultaneously creating a centre for analytics in association with I.B.M. Continuing on the same point later, GHS-IMR maintained its lead in the area by adding a course of Robotics Process Automation (R.P.A.).
All these collateral learning assist many awards, accolades and accreditations to the institutes described below.
Badges of Honor
After highlighting the institute’s learning programs and its story, Dr Rahul also enlightens us with the awards, accolades, and accreditations of the institute and postulates,
- “Ranked Promising B school By C.S.R.
- Ranked 3rd Best B School in U.P. by Silicon India.
- Ranked Outstanding Institution by World Education Congress.
- Ranked Outstanding Institute of Northern India by B.B.C. Knowledge.
- Ranked 2nd Best B school in U.P. and 5th in India (Non-IIM) by Education World.
- Ranked 28th Best B school in India by Academic Insight.
- National A* grading by CRISIL.”
Predicting Future Growth
While visioning the future of the prestigious business institute, Dr Rahul notes, “We do agree with the Indian education system and also with other foreign countries, as it is structured differently in terms of pedagogy, instructional, manuals and many more, but now content is almost the same.”
“Indian intellectual force is considered at par with the workforce of any developed nation. Here in our institutes, we provide a complimentary international Industrial tour to our students to understand the work culture of world-leading companies. In this series, our students visited companies in the United Kingdom, China, and the Middle East to study and understand the organizational culture of world leaders,” he added further.
Stating further, he says, “We have alliances with the top universities across the globe; we do a lot of activities in their collaboration to provide an international education scenario to the students.”
