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From the second half of 2015, when São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/Eaesp) initiates the undergraduate classes related to the University Entrance Exams (Vestibular) conducted in February 2015, students will have the option to study entirely in English. From then on, the School will offer a class per semester where classes,...
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Professor Stavros Xanthopoylos, Deputy Director of FGV?s Institute for Educational Development (FGV/IDE), was chosen by the Open Education Consortium (OEC, former OCW) as a member of the consortium's institutional board, the only Latin American representative to take this position.Responsible for managing the consortium, the institutional board...
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FGV's São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) held, on March 27, the event ?Is there a need for a new commercial code? Commercial Law and the challenges to business activity in Brazil?. The event was organized by Mariana Pargendler, Professor of São Paulo Law School and visiting professor at Stanford Law School, and aimed to discuss the proposal...
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During a morning of debate, experts in the criminal and tax areas discussed the consequences of corruption in criminal and tax law and pointed out a number of issues which the opinion of jurists and case law will be faced with in the coming years. The event Taxation and Acts of Corruption held by the lato sensu graduate program ? GVlaw and the...
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FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio) reached a historical result. It was placed among the top 32 teams participating in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2015 (Vis Moot), one of the most traditional simulated jury competitions in the world. The competition, held between March 26 and April 2, in Vienna,...
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The signs that the fiscal adjustment in Brazil will take longer than expected to generate results do not exempt us from the responsibility of determining the desired economy and industry for the country as soon as possible ? upon completion of the correction phase. This is the view of Pedro Luiz Barreiro Passos, president of the Institute for...
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Daniela Nogueira Mendes and Fábio Bruno Queiroga, residents of the Monte Azul community, located in the south of São Paulo, graduated from high school in a public school five years ago. As a couple, the two were looking for a profession that could have greater social impact and decided to study for a year ? on their own, since they could not...
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This Wednesday, April 8, the seminar Challenges for economic growth marked the official launch of FGV Growth & Development, a new study center at Fundação Getulio Vargas. The event included the participation of the president of FGV, Professor Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal; the director of FGV/EPGE - Brazilian School of Economics and Finance,...
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Created by the Center for Applied Legal Research (CPJA) of São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) to encourage Brazilian society to discuss the city's occupation modes and its impact on inequality of access to housing and public and private services, the Política Urbana Agora (Urban Politics Now) program presents, in its first edition, a debate...
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Through an effort by the Latin American Center for Public Policy (CLPP) at FGV's International Affairs Division (FGV/Dint), in partnership with FGV Online, FGV is launching five free online courses in management and ethics in Spanish. The project intends to take far-reaching social courses to people from other countries in Latin America, as...
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This Wednesday, April 8, Professor Bianor Cavalcanti, International Director of Fundação Getulio Vargas, will deliver the opening speech of the Jubileu de Ouro (Golden Jubilee) for the Administrative Profession in Rio de Janeiro.Since its creation, Fundação Getulio Vargas has been playing an important role in training professionals and...
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Planning around a sustainable energy matrix has proved to be a global concern. Energy sources such as electricity, gas and oil transformed the world economy, but they already show signs of depletion. In an attempt to compensate for these losses, shale gas is presented as an emerging change factor that will bring new possibilities for the energy...
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The deputy director of Education, Research and Graduate Studies at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio), Professor Sérgio Guerra, was appointed ambassador at Yale University (USA) in Brazil. He joined the select group of researchers and scholars that will facilitate the connection between Brazilian and Yale's community, founded in...
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In March, Fundação Getulio Vargas and El Colégio de México (Colmex) held, in Mexico City, a seminar about the current prospects and challenges of Brazil in politics, economy and diplomacy.The discussions included the participation of the director of the School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), Professor Celso Castro, Professor Silvia Maria Mattos...
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The Consumer Price Index - Weekly (IPC-S), calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre), for March 31, recorded a 1.41% change, 0.06 percentage points (pp) below the rate reported in the last calculation. Five of the seven state capitals (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Porto Alegre, Recife and Salvador) recorded a decrease in...
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Few people know, but Brazil is one of the countries where McDonald's is the owner of most of the establishments that carry its brand name. The decision, opposite to the overall strategy of the company of using franchising to expand its network, was taken from the years 2000 after many franchisees filed a large number of lawsuits to object the...
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FGV Press will release next Monday, April 13, the book Dispositivos urbanos e trama dos viventes: ordens e resistências (Urban mechanisms and the scheme of the beings: Orders and resistance). The work presents questions regarding urban issues associated with the production of inequalities and the specific forms of reducing life quality. The...
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Throughout April, Fundação Getulio Vargas will offer an event about the international modules offered to business students in Rio de Janeiro (April 7-8), in São Paulo (April 14-15) and in Brasília (April 23).These modules are part of the International Mobility program of FGV's MBA programs and are offered at FGV's partnering foreign educational...
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As if it weren't enough to deal with the numerous domestic economic problems, including low growth, skyrocketing inflation and the weak business and consumer confidence, the risk of a loss of investment grade by rating agencies has also made the government lose sleep. In recent weeks, the country was visited by representatives of the three...
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Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management, announced this week executive Pedro Vazquez del Rio as the company's new Service Director in Brazil. The executive's primarily challenge is to develop and improve visibility to the services offered by the company, reinforcing Schneider Electric's expertise in its operational areas. ...
