The Goa Business School is a 2019-launched school attached to the Goa University in the city of Panaji, India. It was set up following the amalgamation of four earlier-launched departments of the university — Commerce (established in 1988), Computer Science & Technology (1987), Economics (launched in 1968 through the Centre for Post-Graduate Instruction and Research at Goa and affiliated to then University of Bombay) and Management Studies (1988).
Purpose The amalgamation was intended to "allow the faculty and research students to discover new synergies that remained hidden within department silos, re-brand and showcase [Goa University's] strengths in research and teaching in these areas together."
Programmes offered Its academic programmes include: M.SC. Integrated, Integrated MBA (Hospitality, Travel & Tourism), M.A. Economics, M.Com, MCA, MBA, MBA (Executive), MBA (Financial Services), M.Phil (Computer Science), M.Phil (Economics), M.Phil (Management Studies), Ph.D. Commerce, Ph.D. Economics, and Ph.D. Management Studies.
Officiating As of October 2020, the Dean of the Goa Business School is M.S. Dayanand, Professor of Management Studies; Vice-Dean (Academic) is Subhash K.B., Professor of Commerce; while the Vice-Dean (Research) is Sudarsan P.K., Professor of Economics.
IT Summit In October 2019, the Goa Business School IT Summit (GBSITS) was organised at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Indoor Stadium, Taleigao.
Early studies Some early work which drew media attention included local Goa-related studies looking at palm feni production being adversely affected by a lack of toddy-tappers, the traditional workers who extracted toddy from coconut trees which are abundant in the area.
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