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The work of the advisor to the President of Fundação Getulio Vargas and professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Istvan Karoly Kasznar, as coordinator of the Study Center for Accounts and Sports Management (NECE) was recognized by the president of the Management Committee of Diagnóstico Nacional do...
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Housing deficit remains a problem common to all regions of Brazil, especially in the large cities of the Southeast, South and Northeast. That's what the network analysis done by the Public Policy Analysis Division (FGV/DAPP), between July 25 and August 1, indicates. 36,000 entries were monitored on social networks linked to homelessness, poor...
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The coordinator of the Center for International Relations based at the School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), Alexandre Moreli, presented the article Brazil's Struggle for a Third Power: The 'Latin Front', the Multilateral System, and the Cold War, 1946-1954 at the annual conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), in Argentina....
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The Alumni Association of Politécnica (A³P) - representative body of the alumni of the Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - held on July 30, a ceremony in honor of Fundação Getulio Vargas's president, Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, a civil engineer who graduated from the institution.The event was attended, among...
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The director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Craig Calhoun, was welcomed on Tuesday, July 29, by the president of Fundação Getulio Vargas, Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, during a visit to the institution. In the morning, the two leaders held a meeting attended by the director of FGV/DAPP, Marco Aurélio Ruediger; the...
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This year, Fundação Getulio Vargas initiates the Academic Collection Project, which aims to keep all documents related to its activities permanently organized and properly stored, easily accessible and ready for reference.For this purpose, the Director of Operations, Mario Rocha, was appointed by the Ministry of Education (MEC), as Depositary...
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The public security forces in Brazil need to go through a process of reorganization to become more efficient. That is what the agents themselves state, according to the survey Opinião dos Policiais Brasileiros sobre Reformas e Modernização da Segurança Pública? (Opinions of the Brazilian Police on Public Safety Reforms and Modernizations) -...
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On July 29, Fundação Getulio Vargas welcomed the CEO of Natura Institute, Pedro Villares. He talked about his career from the time he worked at Grupo Villares, of his family, until he emerged as one of the leading names of the Brazilian cosmetics company.In my professional life I've learned that it takes planning, micro management, sociability...
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On July 28, Fundação Getulio Vargas, through FGV Corporativo, launched the MBA on Strategies for Sustainable Development. The course is conducted in partnership with McDonald's University - an institution that aims to spread knowledge and disseminate the organizational culture of McDonald's to employees, franchisees, suppliers, communities and...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas officially launched today, July 30, its channel on Instagram - social network for sharing photos and videos, quite popular on iPhones and Android devices. This profile is managed by the Communications and Marketing Division (DICOM), which intends to use the space to show the daily life of the institution, and memorable...
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The Centre of Excellence in Retailing (GVcev) of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) will hold, on August 6, the seminar Visual Merchandising ? Tendências, aprendizados e casos? (Visual Merchandising - Trends, lessons and cases).The objective is to present news in the area and prepare retailers to improve the environment of...
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Professor Maria Lucia Padua Lima discussed the causes of Brazil's premature de-industrialization and features of the economy in the last twenty years.Professor and coordinator of International Relations at São Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP), Maria Lucia Padua Lima, presented the work Brazil in the World Trade Scenario: Trade, Exchange Rate,...
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The Industrial Confidence Index (ICI), calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) increased 3.2% between June and July 2014, when it moved from 87.2 to 84.4 points. After the seventh consecutive decline, the index reached the lowest level since April 2009 (82.2 points).According to the institute the drop was mainly determined...
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The American economist Eric Maskin, Economics Nobel Prize winner in 2007, visited yesterday, July 28, FGV/EPGE - Graduate School of Economics. He attended a lunch in the Main Hall with FGV?s President, Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal; Vice President Sergio Quintella Franklin; the director of FGV/EPGE, Rubens Penha Cysne; and the remaining directors...
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Rio de Janeiro has the largest dissatisfaction with high prices in Brazil, with a volume of complaints 50% higher than São Paulo. That's what the survey made by the Public Policy Analysis Division (FGV/DAPP) on July 18-25, from monitoring 150,000 comments on social networks, indicates. The dissatisfaction expressed among consumers in the...
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The Professor of Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, gave a lecture, on July 17, in the 3ª Escuela Doctoral sobre Regionalismo Latinoamericano, Europeo y Comparado - event organized by the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and the United Nations University (UNU) on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (...
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The Business Administration Review (Revista de Administração de Empresas - RAE) is offering Ahead of Print (early publication) its fifth edition of 2014, for September and October.This time, the journal brings three papers presented at the 16th Symposium of Production, Logistics and International Operations Management (...
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The Director of the School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), Celso Castro, was elected through a secret ballot, executive committee member of the research group on military and conflict resolution of the Sociology International Association (ISA). The committee has seven more scholars from South Africa, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Israel, Italy and...
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São Paulo Law School (FGV DIREITO SP) will welcome, on August 4, the 1º Diálogo Paulista entre Órgãos de Controle e Organizações da Sociedade Civil - OSCs (São Paulo Debate among Control Bodies and Civil Society Organizations). Sponsored by Associação Paulista de Fundações (APF), the workshop will bring together representatives of the Board of...
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On July 9, Fundação Getulio Vargas and the Ports and Coasts Division (DPC) of the Brazilian Navy signed a partnership, at DPC's main offices, to offer a graduate course in Port Management, aimed at operators of ports and terminals in Rio de Janeiro.At the occasion, FGV was represented by the Director of Business Studies, Antonio Carlos Porto...


