With a consolidated e-commerce operation for over 10 years, FGV Press will launch its new website this month with several new features: there are several search options, a special area for the press, a space to announce events and inserts in the media, a section with free e-books and a special emphasis on the resale project for digital books of...

With a degree from the first class of the course on Management of Innovation in Science and Technology, offered by Fundação Getulio Vargas, the Argentinian Pablo Cardozo Herrera won the First Prize of the 2014 Argentine National Electronic Government, awarded by the Argentine Society of Informatics and the Committee of Informatics and State...

A special item of the Consumer Survey referring to October, conducted by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), indicates a significant increase of families who have delayed payments for more than 30 days: between October 2013 and October 2014 the percentage increased from 7.2% to 10.3%.According to Viviane Seda, who led the study,...

FGV's School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), through its Laboratory of History Teaching, organized on Thursday, November 6, the annual seminar of its project Institutional Scholarship Program of Teaching Initiation (Pibid), whose activities began in March 2014.Pibid is a program of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (...

Innovate to learn - that was the tone of the final papers presented by the students of the extracurricular activity Programação para Advogado at the end of classes this week. Five groups submitted proposals that use technology for legal purposes with a business plan, business model, the application's strategic concept and its technical and...

FGV's International Division (FGV/DINT), in partnership with Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, of New York University (NYU/Steinhardt), will hold on January 5-16, 2015 the workshop Emerging Models and Markets for Music (EM3), which will bring to Rio de Janeiro 30 students of the Music Business Graduate Program....

Part of the cultural and educational complex of Fundação Getulio Vargas, the Oscar Niemeyer Tower became LEED Certified by the Green Building Council.LEED is a certification program that evaluates high performance sustainable buildings. This tool provides the validation conducted by third parties on the sustainable features of a project and...

The lawyer and former postdoctoral student in Business of FGV's School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Élida Graziane Pinto, launched last week in São Paulo, the book ?Financiamento dos Direitos à Saúde e à Educação ? Uma perspectiva constitucional? (Financing the Rights to Health and Education - A constitutional perspective...

A student at Harvard Law School (HLS), Samantha Glover, who participated in an one-semester exchange program at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio), says that her time spent at the school was very helpful and the fact that students of the School studied at Harvard helped her choose the courses most appropriate to her interests....