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- Administration
![Supply Chain Leadership]( "Supply Chain Leadership")
The purpose of the event is to discuss the competencies required of the Supply Chain Leader as their role has a strong component of innovation, transformation, and communication. This role is not always easy to be accepted by the other agents and by their own company, leaders, peers and superiors. The debate offers recommendations...
- Administration
![26th Semester of FGVSaúde Health Debates]( "26th Semester of FGVSaúde Health Debates")
Large national corporations, as in other countries, are organizing to participate in the management of the health benefit offered to their employees and dependents. They understand that the market and its actors have not offered the answer they want in terms of cost, transparency and quality.
- Could the entry of this...
- Administration
![Project Finance in Brazil - Rationale and case studies - 4th edition]( "Project Finance in Brazil - Rationale and case studies - 4th edition")
...16 years after the launch, this revised edition of the book has two more chapters, on financial aspects (cash flow and WACC) and legal aspects (clauses of economic rebalancing of concessions). We also received the sponsorship of Bradesco, Demarest Advogados, Integral Investimentos and support from FGV EAESP / IFin.
- Public Policy
![Book Launch: 'Lobbying and public policy']( "Book Launch: 'Lobbying and public policy'")
On June 29, FGV Press will launch the book “Lobby e políticas públicas” [Lobbying and public policy] in Sao Paulo. The publication is part of the FGV Pocket Collection, which aims to be as objective as possible when addressing the subject, without condemning or worshiping the lobbying activity. The book launch will...
- Social Sciences
![Research on British stadium modernization and combating hooliganism receives international support]( "Research on British stadium modernization and combating hooliganism receives international support")
Professor Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, from FGV’s School of Social Sciences (FGV CPDOC), has been selected for the Brazil Visiting Fellowship program, by the University of Birmingham, with funding from the Rutherford Fellow Fund, to conduct research on the modernization process for football stadiums...
- Law
![Professor will act as international observer during Mexican elections]( "Professor will act as international observer during Mexican elections")
Mexicans will go to the polls on July 1 to elect their new president and representatives to the legislative houses. The Coordinator of the Center for Justice and Society (CJUS) of FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio), professor Michael Freitas Mohallem, was invited by...
- Administration
![International forum on public management discusses leadership]( "International forum on public management discusses leadership")
FGV’s International Director, professor Bianor Cavalcanti, presented the topic: “Leadership is public spirit – the republican virtues” at the Public Management Forum of the Federal Council of Administration (CFA). The event was held on June 6-8 in Brasilia and featured the theme “Transformative...
- Administration
![New role of companies in private healthcare system discussed at event]( "New role of companies in private healthcare system discussed at event")
Major Brazilian corporations, as in other countries, are organizing themselves to participate in the management of the healthcare benefit offered to their employees and dependents. They understand that the market and its players have not offered the answers they seek in terms of cost, transparency and quality. To discuss the issue, the Center...
- Economics
![Brazilian consumer inflation expectations remain stable]( "Brazilian consumer inflation expectations remain stable")
The median expectation of Brazilian consumers for inflation in the next 12 months shifted from 5.3% in May to 5.2% in June. There was a 1.7 percentage point decrease when compared to the same period in the previous year.
“Expectations have remained relatively stable. This is partly due to consumer inertia, which despite...
- Law
![Experts discuss how technological evolution puts current taxation models in check]( "Experts discuss how technological evolution puts current taxation models in check")
Major technological innovations, such as those that allow the transmission of cryptocurrencies and the establishment of blockchains, have been causing deep reflections on the organization of the State and taxation. These changes were discussed at the seminar “New Rule of Law in the digital age: CIDE consignments, IRRF and royalty...
- Public Policy
![Lobbying and public policy addressed in new book]( "Lobbying and public policy addressed in new book")
On June 29, FGV Press will launch the book “Lobby e políticas públicas” [Lobbying and public policy] in Sao Paulo. The publication is part of the FGV Pocket Collection, which aims to be as objective as possible when addressing the subject, without condemning or worshiping the lobbying activity. The book launch will take place...
- Administration
![Food business is topic of special SciELO week]( "Food business is topic of special SciELO week")
SciELO invited RAE – Revista de Administração de Empresas (Journal of Business Management) to participate in the SciELO in Perspective | Humanities Special Week to be held from June 25-29, 2018. The RAE Week will feature papers from the special edition with studies presented at the International Forum “The...
- Economics
![Preliminary Brazilian Industry Confidence results reveal drop in June]( "Preliminary Brazilian Industry Confidence results reveal drop in June")
Conducted by FGV’s Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE), the Industry Survey’s preliminary results for June 2018 indicate a drop of 1.4 point in the Industry Confidence Index (ICI), compared to the final result from May, down to 99.7 points.
The Current Situation Index (ISA) would fall 6.2 points in the month, down to...
- Mathematics
![Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics awards research project]( "Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics awards research project")
The study titled “Ensaios em matemática aplicada: estimação e trajetórias bootstrap de oferta de sangue e estudo de desempenho de extensões do algoritmo de Programação Dinâmica Dual Estocástica” [Essays in applied mathematics: blood supply estimating and bootstrap trajectories and performance study on the extensions of...
- Social Sciences
![Multidisciplinary debate on digital education and research to be held at international conference]( "Multidisciplinary debate on digital education and research to be held at international conference")
A diverse space for dialog on digital education and research, which brings together professionals from the social sciences, arts, literature, history, information science, computer science, among other fields. That is the definition of the “2018 Digital Humanities Conference”, organized by the Digital...
- Economics
![Brazil GDP Monitor indicates 0.1% economic growth in April]( "Brazil GDP Monitor indicates 0.1% economic growth in April")
The FGV GDP Monitor, released by FGV’s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV IBRE), shows a growth of 0.1% in economic activity in April, compared to March, and a decrease of 0.4% in the quarter ended in April, compared to the quarter ended in January. Both rates were calculated in the series without seasonal...
- Mathematics
![International scientific journal awards study by FGV professor]( "International scientific journal awards study by FGV professor")
FGV School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) professor Vincent Guigues won the 2017 Charles Broyden award for best paper from the Optimization Methods and Software Magazine Journal for his paper, titled “Non-asymptotic confidence bounds for the optimal value of a stochastic program”.
The...
- Administration
![Internationalization of guidelines for Large-Scale Projects in the Amazon debated in Mexico]( "Internationalization of guidelines for Large-Scale Projects in the Amazon debated in Mexico")
The Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) of FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) presented the results of the initiative Large-Scale Projects in the Amazon - Lessons Learned and...
- Economics
![New-developmentalist project for Brazil addressed in book by economist Bresser-Pereira]( "New-developmentalist project for Brazil addressed in book by economist Bresser-Pereira")
In the book “Em busca do desenvolvimento perdido: um projeto novo-desenvolvimentista para o Brasil” [Searching for lost development: a new-developmentalist project for Brazil], professor Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira diagnoses Brazil’s fundamental problems based on the developing economic theory of new-developmentalism, which seeks to...
- Mathematics
![Professor awarded Capes/Humboldt grant to conduct research project in Germany]( "Professor awarded Capes/Humboldt grant to conduct research project in Germany")
FGV’s School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) professor Maria Soledad Aronna has been awarded the Capes/Humboldt Program grant, under the Experienced Researcher category, to collaborate scientifically with professors Fredi Tröltzsch and Volker Mehrmann at Technische...
