The Salesians of Don Bosco has always been at the forefront of carrying out development activities aimed at the weak and marginalized sections of the society. Keeping up this tradition, DBIM actively involes itself and its students in a number of initiatives. The most notable initiative in this regard is Prajjwal. In addition, all MBA students are members of the NSS - National Service Scheme.
The objective of Prajjwal is to sensitize the society to different aspects of the society and social issues, thereby contributing towards inclusive growth.
The village of Joypur and the areas in its vicinity, have a pre-dominance of low-lined income groups who are deprived of exercising some of their basic needs and demands. In a survey, it was witnessed that most of the school going children could not opt for proper tuitions with family income as the common barrier. The forum, Prajjwal zeroed in, on catering to one of the basic needs of the school children, by organizing free education workshops during the weekends. And this was duly emphasized in the cultural programme, hosted by Prajjwal. The audience, consisting of students, parents and curious onlookers were all enthralled by the whole idea behind the programme. The children-students of Joypur took active part in the proceedings of the programme. Everyone wished a quick and healthy start to the Prajjwal activities.
With the above objective in view, the Prajjwal team of DBIM, Ghy took upon the initiative to bring the inhabitants of Joypur village to the same common platform, whereby the much needed bond can be developed. ‘Invitation cum self-fill up info’ cards were distributed through-out the different house-hold of the area, inviting the people to the Joypur Primary School premises on March 12, 2010 at 3.30 pm. ‘Active Interaction with the people’ was the main motive behind the whole programme, so that the stockholders of DBIM, could very well understand the problems and issues the local inhabitants are facing, gel with them and provide feasible solutions.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a Central Sector Scheme of Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th & 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate & Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in various government led community service activities & programmes.The sole aim of the NSS is to provide hands on experience to young students in delivering community service. Read More
The MBA Program of DBIM is committed to producing future leaders of business who can communicate, interact, collaborate and compete with anyone in the world by providing advanced business education that is professionally relevant, ethically sound and culturally sensitive.
Effort is taken to develop a rubric for assessing Team Skills. Multiple Intelligence theory (based on Howard Gardner's MI model) is extensively used to understand and subsequently develop the skills of the students. Various techniques like, leadership exercises, team management skills, communication skills, numerical ability skills, situation judgment skills, and the like are used apart from subject knowledge enhancement exercises to develop all the important skills required for a future manager. The said objectives are achieved by making the students part of students clubs. A brief snapshot of the clubs are mentioned below.
The public relations cell of the students seeks to develop a healthy relationships between DBIM, corporate and general populance. It is conducts "DBIM Management Talks Series" - which invites eminent individuals from industry and academia and provide platform for students to engage in a constructive and meaningful dialogue with them.
"Prayas" the students welfare club of DBIM provides numerous opportunity to make life of students more vibrant and enriching. Apart from conducting regular sports & gaming events it also is involved in conducting cultural events and organizing festivals.
"Prajjwal" is a ongoing activity done to inculcate the social responsibility amongst the students. It is involved in providing free tuition to school children. Every Sunday more than 200 children from in and around campus assemble for their share of quality education imparted by the MBA students.
The Little - C club is all about creativity. Activities conducted by the students under its banner is to give an opportunity for the students to showcase their creativity.
"Journei" a yearly management contest event which is now being joined most of the management institutions in and around Guwahati. Major event like B-Plan contest or case study competition saw teams winning upto INR 1 lakh as cash prize apart from various other management related contests.
DBIM e-newsletter" is an initiative to disseminate information via means of inhouse e-newsletter, where students can openly show their creativity. It also promotes entrepreneurship culture amongst students.
Apart from such mega events, Little - C is involved in conducting events like fresher's party, Musica - the cultural night, Library day, Teachers day etc. It is also involved in conducting the morning assembly which consists of singing a prayer, reading news, showing a relevant message through skit etc.
Taking first step in the direction of creating a body of work and bringing about a better understanding of the Finance, Marketing or Human Resource discipline, the specialization students of DBIM has unveiled - "FinMagnet", "Marketing Hub" and "HR House" respectively. Apart from regular review session and discussion, it updates students regarding opportunities and sector updates. It is also involved conducting various inhouse events and contests like ad making, share market contests, product launches, Jigyasa - quiz competition etc.
This club is all about building the personal brand of students. It involves updating students about various certification courses like six sigma, mutual fund certification courses, ELTS etc. Apart from that is also conducts Personality Development Boot Camp, which is group mentoring involving group of students and a faculty. Various inhouse communication skills development, mock interview sessions, GD sessions etc are all conducted in order to ensure that the students are able to create their own brands.
We take immense pride in two of our regular publications.
While "The Brahmaputra...Rhythm of the Promises" is an ambitious initiative to bring together notes from these business leaders, as a fresh breeze of hope, faith and knowledge, "Journal of Management in Practice (JoMP)" is an attempt to explore the actual implementation of management theories and concepts. JoMP is a peer reviewed online journal. The "Rising" is an attempt to give our MBA students an opportunity to explore their literary side with new updates, short articles and stories.
Our other publications are as follows.
Campus Buzz is a newletter to keep stakeholders informed about the news and events at DBIM. DBIM Konnect is primarily focussed on our alumni and the Rising is focussed on our existing students.
The Brahmaputra...Rhythm of the Promises is an ambitious initiative to bring together notes from these business leaders, as a fresh breeze of hope, faith and knowledge. The journal/magazine caters to all domains of business and industry - be it regional, national and international; and cover aspects starting from marketing to finance to technology to social concern. The magazine contains industry insights from successful business leaders of the region along with gripping research papers from academic captains of the country and abroad.
With the Inaugural publication in August 2009, several Issues of the ISSN: 2278-246X registered "The Brahmaputra...Rhythm of the Promises" have come up, till now. Published twice a year i.e. in June, with a Selected Theme and in Dec, with an Open Theme; the Editorial team hopes all of you to take avid interest in this project, and contribute generously with your articles, suggestions, feedback and queries.
Invitation for Papers:
we look forward to your contribution of research papers, articles, book reviews for publishing. The research papers will be subjected to a blind review process by an esteemed panel. All papers can be mailed to bhaswati.adhikary@dbim.ac.in.
A brief profile of the writer is necessary. A scanned informal self-photo is desirable.
We look forward to a favourable response from you, in terms of contributions.
The Journal of Management in Practice (JoMP) is an endeavour of the Department of Management of Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati (Don Bosco Institute of Management), to create and provide a platform for aspiring academicians, emerging scholars and management professionals to articulate their views and opinions on developments in our business environment. The aim of JoMP is to publish peer reviewed research papers, short communications and review articles covering not only the latest innovative research findings in management but also findings regarding the practical applications of management concepts.
The Inaugural publication of the ISSN: 2456-1509 registered "Journal of Management in Practice" came out in May 2016. To begin with, there will be one issue every year in the month of July. The Editorial team hopes all of you to take avid interest in this project, and contribute generously with your articles, suggestions, feedback and queries.
Invitation for Papers:
we look forward to your contribution of research papers, articles, book reviews for publishing. The research papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process by an esteemed panel. All papers can be mailed to chandan.dutta@dbim.ac.in.
A brief profile of the writer is necessary. A scanned informal self-photo is desirable.
We look forward to a favourable response from you, in terms of contributions.
Campus Buzz, as the name suggests is a communique of Don Institute of Management meant to connect and keep in touch with friends, alumni and well wishers.
A lot happens at the DBIM campus throught the year and it is difficult to sum all these events up in a single communications. Hence, the only way to keep stakeholders abreast with all the buzz in the campus was to come out with this communique and publish it online on a regular basis.
This communique is the outcome of the creative effort of the staff and students at DBIM. The first issue was released on October, 2017. New issues are usually released around the months of January and June.
Being together is not a matter of habit but a question of choice.
DBIM Konnect, as the name suggests is a news magazine of Don Institute of Management meant to connect and keep in touch with friends, alumni and well wishers.
Being connected to the past is a beautiful way of maintaining the vitality and growth of the Institute. That prompts us to communicate with you through this magazine. It’s a way of recalling the memories of the past and being refreshed by the energy it creates in us to keep us together. Thus DBIM Konnect becomes a bridge between the past and the present and an enabler for the future.
This magazine is the outcome of the creative effort of the staff and students at DBIM and will be released on a yearly basis. The first issue was released on Jan 28, 2017 during the 1st DBIM Alumni meet.
Being together is not a matter of habit but a question of choice.
The decision to start the DBIM's e-newsletter was the easiest part, the difficult part was zeroing on the content, the looks and the overall concept behind it. After lots of brand storming, it was decided to center the newsletter on the core theme "Rising", symbolizing the rise of DBIM in the management education scenario. The rising sun symbolizing the force and power, which no one can easily ignore, and so is DBIM.
The rising new technology of Android in the mobile world was one of the topic that interested us, the viral marketing was also a development which was interesting for MBA's and hence was included. We also covered "Happiness Index", because we also think our social sensitivity is also an important aspect of our management teaching. We also tried to through light on few rising "Women Power". Briefly we touched some powerful logos and their hidden meaning.
In the students corner, we tried to give an opportunity to the literary side of the students by including their experiences. In a lighter mode we took accounts of some enjoyable moments of students of DBIM, a picnic, a study tour or celebration of cultural day.
In conclusion, an attempt has been made through this newsletter to introduce DBIM to the business world. To give an insight to what our young management students think, what interests them, and what is their view of various market scenarios. We assume that, we are going to make some mistakes in our first attempt. But, you do mistakes only when you do something. So, we believe perfection will come one day with our hard work, dedication and strong will. So, there has to be a beginning and this issue of "rising" is the beginning to the story of another rising.
Feedback, comments and suggesstions can be mailed to info@dbim.ac.in.
