I am proud that DR VN
BRIMS has completed a decade of its existence. The flagship MMS
programme of DR VN BRIMS, is a two years full time Masters
Degree Course affiliated to the University of Mumbai and
approved by the All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE). We now have two divisions with an intake capacity of 60
students per division. The recognition for our flagship course
validates the benchmarks adopted by DR VN BRIMS and should offer
society at large an opportunity to pursue high quality, World
class, management education at our Thane campus.
At DR VN BRIMS, we strive to create an environment conducive for
management studies and encourage students to be a part of the
academic life-force at our well-maintained and well-staffed
Thane College Campus. The electronic security system installed
in our campus in 2009 provides best-in-class security
infrastructure and an assurance of safe, reliable and open
environment to all. Education at DR VN BRIMS transcends above
and beyond classroom and library driven pedagogy. It aims at a
holistic development of students’ personality, honing their
skills and innate attributes. Above all, it places great
emphasis on character, morality, discipline and attempts to
build socially responsible citizens for the nation.
We are proud of the intellectual capital of DR VN BRIMS which
comprises a large number of visiting faculties who are all
eminently qualified professionals from different areas of
interest and walks of life, who along with our contingent of
well qualified full time faculty, form the nucleus, the critical
mass as it were, of knowledge power. It is this knowledge tank
which stimulates the students into learning experiences of a
totally different order to make them unique, special and
exclusive in their overall profile and personality with a well
differentiated unique selling proposition(USP).
The achievements at DR VN BRIMS are visible in all spheres -
academic rigour and excellence, student activities, seminars,
workshops and research publications. Again, our visiting faculty
network, along with the network of recruiters for summer
internships and full time placements, are the key to
industry-academia interactions. Our annual seminars and
workshops are yet another redeeming feature adding further value
to our contribution to the cause of management education. DR VN
BRIMS became an ISO certified institution in July 2008 in a
short period of three years since inception. Today, it is
eagerly looking forward to achieving the ISO 9001:2008
accreditation and also preparing itself for an accreditation by
the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), a body constituted by
the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under
Section 10 (u) of the AICTE Act, 1987. The faculty and staff of
DR VN BRIMS are working under the dynamic stewardship of the
Director who brings to the table his vast managerial experience,
spanning over 20 years, in reputed multinational companies.
As Chairman of Vidya Prasarak Mandal (VPM), Thane, I, along with
the trustees of VPM, pledge to offer the best of infrastructure,
quality education and workplace that will protect the fraternity
of all stakeholders assuring the dignity of every individual.
The vision of VPM (Thane) is to make DR VN BRIMS, an institution
of excellence, driven by creativity and innovation, through
state-of-the-art infrastructure, with a view to provide quality,
value based, education seeking holistic development of students’
and teachers’ personalities to enable them to become socially
responsible citizens. I am indeed enthralled by what Shri.
Narayana Murthy had to say about VPM’s DR VN BRIMS during a
keynote address in a seminar on ‘Challenges for Indian
Multinationals’ on 17 May, 2006 at Thorale Bajirao Peshwe
Sabhagruha, Thane College Campus. To quote Shri. Narayana
Murthy, “You have to showcase a wonderful role model in creating
excellent institutions like this.”
The dedicated website of DR VN BRIMS will enable all
stakeholders to keep abreast of the latest happenings at the
institute and it will certainly be a milestone in our endeavours
to utilize state-of-the-art technology, to facilitate deployment
of modern means, methods and media for promoting DR VN BRIMS in
the knowledge era. In a world of seamless opportunities, DR VN
BRIMS is exploring ways of aligning itself with the Government
of India’s policy of making India a super knowledge power and
also bringing about, by way of consequence, a societal
transformation characterized by rapid, but, inclusive growth. I
hope that the DR VN BRIMS website will be a potent and powerful
platform for a vigorous, virile, viable and value added exchange
of information and knowledge to promote, project and provoke the
enthusiasm, energy and enterprise of all stakeholders for the
cause of the management movement of Thane city, our country and
across other cities, countries and continents of the globe.
I congratulate the entire DR VN BRIMS team for their commendable
contributions and hope that they will continue to exceed the
increasing expectations of society, from all stakeholders of
management education in particular and education World in
general. I am confident that with increased and improved support
from all stakeholders of DR VN BRIMS, we will be able to serve
the cause of education with greater vigour and rigour than ever
before. I am sure that sooner rather than later DR VN BRIMS will
be the cynosure of all eyes.
Dear Friends,
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection, from the quiet
reflection will come even more effective action”. Peter Drucker.
At BRIMS we get inspiration from the father of modern management
and we believe that management learning takes place by doing and
reflecting.
We continuously work to improve our processes to ensure that we
create an environment which is conducive for the student to
perform and excel in society. All our efforts are towards
creating a compelling environment which will enable students to
explore their potential to the optimum.
Our institute is set on a journey to develop and nurture
students as a holistically developed management professionals.
What started out as a dream in 1973, has now taken shape of a
well established management institute which has been grooming
young minds through continuous pursuit of excellence. When we
reflect back, the extraordinary efforts of faculty members,
administration, leadership teams and students have created a
brand to recon.
Our dream is to make our students socially responsible citizens
who will drive the growth of our nation. We focus on nurturing
leadership along with critical thinking, and sustainability. We
work closely with the industry to ensure that we deliver the
latest knowledge to help students acquire skills which are
valued by the corporate. Our andragogy and evaluation techniques
help our students develop these skills and excel in the
corporate world.
We welcome you to BRIMS.
Dr. Nitin Joshi
Director - DR.VN BRIMS
The MMS Programme at Dr.
VN BRIMS will soon enter its sixth year. Launched in the
academic year 2005-2006, the institute has made every
effort to provide quality education to students.
Over the last five years Dr. VN BRIMS has made its mark in
the field of management education and has taken
significant stride forward. Starting in August 2005, Dr.
VN BRIMS saw several things happen - students winning
awards in inter-business school competitions, substantial
contribution by faculty members in scholarly
endeavours through participation and presentation in different
forums and conferences, seminars addressed by eminent
personalities such as Shri. Narayana Murthy of Infosys, Shri.
Ajay Piramal an eminent industrialist, Shri. Nitin Paranjape of
Hindustan Unilever and Shri. Deepak Ghaisas of Gencoval. It was
indeed a proud day for Dr. VN BRIMS when at its annual seminar
on "Challenges for Indian Multinationals", held on 17th May,
2006, Shri. Narayana Murthy noted, "You have to showcase a
wonderful role model in creating excellent institutions like
this." This was much more than a mere milestone for any
Institute in its very first year of existence. Similarly, Dr. VN
BRIMS staff, teachers, library, administration and information
technology centre had all ventured, as early as 2006, to create
a quality policy document to enhance and continuously upgrade
and update their service standards in respect of every aspect of
Dr. VN BRIMS.
Dr. VN BRIMS is now an ISO 9001:2000 certified institute since
July 2008 and is further looking forward to achieving ISO
9001:2008 accreditation. Every activity at Dr. VN BRIMS
continues with unabated vigour and unstinted support by the
Management of Vidya Prasarak Mandal (VPM), Thane under the
enlightened leadership of the Chairman, Dr. Vijay Bedekar and
his team of trustees. Dr. VN BRIMS has several research and
other publications to its credit in the management field. This
bears testimony to the abilities of the institute and the
serious intention of serving the society at large through
production, transmission and dissemination of knowledge.
The students at Dr. VN BRIMS go through a rigorous, two year
full-time, state-of-the-art Master of Management Studies (MMS)
Programme affiliated to the University of Mumbai and approved by
AICTE. For the first time in the history of the MMS Programme of
the University of Mumbai, the University has made summer
internship a mandatory proposition, for purposes of formal
evaluation, since the academic year 2007-2008. Thus, in the
third semester of the said programme, one of the items for
evaluation is "Summer Internship Report" and carries a weightage
of 100 marks i.e. 'one course equivalent'. In fact, our students
have done very well at the MMS semester examinations. Our
results, at the MMS degree examinations, conducted by the
University of Mumbai, since inception (2005-07) to date, have
been very encouraging. The MMS Programme lays stress on blending
different kinds of skills, both, hard and soft. An effort is
made to develop a right balance between different competencies.
The MMS students at Dr. VN BRIMS go through tough quality
standards with respect to academic inputs and exposure to
practices of Management in business and industry. Above all,
discipline, personality development and character building are
everyday mantras of education at Dr. VN BRIMS. We provide
education and training to leaders of tomorrow and hence great
care is taken to transcend the syllabus, classroom inputs and
routine teaching pedagogy. Special effort is made to provide
inputs on Indian Heritage and Management. Further, a lot of
attention is given to value- based education leading to holistic
development of students' personalities.
One more milestone in the career of Dr. VN BRIMS is the creation
and development of a dedicated website. This will bring us
closer to all our stakeholders and will facilitate networking
'inter se' from and to any part of the World. This will help us
to have a global heart and operate with local peripherals and be
an entity to be reckoned with in this global electronic village.
The website will facilitate enabling, empowering and enactment
of all stakeholders to the mutual advantage of one another in
the cause of management education in particular and the
management movement in general.
Dr. Guruprasad Murthy
Director General, DR VN BRIMS