The core purpose of the Department of Business Management (DBM) is to uplift the society for a better future. To achieve its purpose, DBM as a founding department in the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), which serves as the faculty's resource base for general management courses. The department offers a four year BSc. Honours in Business Management Degree in English medium. The highlighting features of the degree programme are; first, the programme offers the opportunity for the undergraduates to opt for either a general business management stream or entrepreneurship stream from the third year depending on the performance in the first two years and the student's personal interest. Second, this is a pioneering custom-designed hybrid mode (physical and virtual) degree programme offered by the management faculties in Sri Lanka. Third, the degree programme embeds extensive practical exposure by offering a two-semester internship programme (Year II Semester I and Year IV Semester II) for the General Business Management stream students and an internship (Year II Semester I) cum business startup opportunity (Year IV Semester I) for the Entrepreneurship stream students. Apart from the above features, the degree programme offers trending subjects to fulfil the industry requirements.

DBM has strengthened the cross-sector partnerships by signing MoUs with professional institutes to develop an integrative approach to knowledge production, and collaborated with industry partners to bridge the gaps at the university-industry interface.

At present, DBM, engages in knowledge production and dissemination in management through research and publications. A greater concern has been given to develop the knowledge production capability of the graduate by offering a comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge sharing sessions including; student centered teaching, learning and assessment methods, undergraduate skill development programs, industry exposure programs, social responsibility programs and engage in research.

I take this opportunity to wish DBM to continue these efforts to achieve its dream of becoming the next Harvard Business School.