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The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) released on December 10th, the result of the last triennial review (2010-2012) for the graduate courses offered in Brazil. EBAPE's academic and professional graduate programs increased their grades compared to the previous review - the Academic Master and Ph.D. programs...
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The results of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference held this month in Bali, Indonesia, pleased the federal government and the Brazilian industry. That is what the researcher Lia Valls, of the Applied Economics Department at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), states in a comment on the Institute's website....
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The Business Law professor of São Paulo Law School (DIREITO GV), Mariana Pargendler, recently had her article published by the Yale Law Journal - one of the most prestigious legal publications in the world.The text The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption , written in co-authorship with the Professor...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas held today, December 16th, the inaugural ceremony of the Oscar Niemeyer Tower - a building part of its cultural and educational complex, located at Botafogo Beach, in Rio de Janeiro. The project of the complex was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s and this is the first of the works by the architect to be...
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The Oscar Niemeyer Tower holds a great meaning for the city. That's how the Vice President of Fundação Getulio Vargas, Sergio Franklin Quintella, defines the building opened today, December 16th, next to FGV's new architectural complex. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer back in the 1950s, FGV's complex is now complete, almost 60 years later, and Rio...
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Besides being designed by Niemeyer, the complex and the Tower have another different feature: the concern with sustainability. Several measures were taken so that we could get the LEED certification, rating system developed by the Green Building Council dos EUA (USGBC) to measure the environmental performance of design, construction and...
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As well as being created by Niemeyer, FGV's new architectural complex was also planned to house a significant part of Brazilian artistic production. Besides furniture designed by the architect, the building and the terrace will have three plastic works by internationally renowned artists: Adriana Barreto, Iole de Freitas and Maria Lynch.Named ?...
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The article Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Political Ambition by Electoral Success in Brazil by the political scientist and professor of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Carlos Pereira, was published in the Journal of Politics in Latin America, one of the latest and most promising journals...
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The Distance Learning Program of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Online), sponsored by Icatu Seguros, has been offering free personal finance courses since 2011. The first three of them - How to organize family budget, How to Plan for Retirement and How to make investments - have totaled 850,000 visits, 520,000 enrolments and 270,000 issued...
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Defining paths and carrying out analyses that enable Brazil to achieve full development, consistent with the demands of the population and the place that the country occupies in the world. These are the goals of the first volume of the series IBRE's Analysis of the Brazilian Economy - which brings together articles by researchers in Applied...
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On December 12-13, São Paulo Law School (DIREITO GV) welcomed experts to discuss the 10th anniversary of the Disarmament Statute. Conducted in partnership with Sou da Paz Institute and Igarapé Institute, the Seminar for the 10 years of the Disarmament Statute - Advances and Challenges for the reduction of homicides in Brazil discussed the...
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Four Schools of Fundação Getulio Vargas are among the top ten in Brazil, according to the latest General Index of Courses publication by the Ministry of Education (IGC/MEC - 2012): São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), FGV/EPGE - Graduate School of Economics, the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) and the...
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Employees and students of Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), in partnership with Pastoral da Criança (Child Pastoral), carried out a charitable action, donating clothes and toys to children of the Pavão-Pavãozinho community. The kits were delivered during a party held on Saturday, December 7th.Isabela Siqueira and Edna Pereira...
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São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) has just released another edition of GVcasos - an eMagazine by the School specialized in publishing cases to be used in Business Administration courses, with a focus on organizational situations experienced by Brazilian and Latin American companies.In this volume, covering the period...
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Six months after the adoption of the new regulatory framework for the port sector, the federal government has announced the authorization for five new private terminals. The states covered are Rio de Janeiro (Niterói and São João da Barra), São Paulo (Santos and Guarujá) and Santa Catarina (Porto Belo). For Mauricio Canêdo, researcher in the...
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The FGV/EPGE - Graduate School of Economics - Undergraduate, Professional Master's in Finance and Business Economics, Master's and Academic Ph.D. programs will welcome Nobel Prize winner Robert Lucas, on December 17th, for the closing lecture of the school year. Robert Lucas is the fifth Nobel Prize winner to visit the School in the last...
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The optimism of Brazilian businessmen reached the lowest level in the past four quarters. That's what the quarterly survey CFO Survey - Global Business Outlook reveals, conducted by São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), Duke University and CFO Magazine, with the support of BMFBovespa and the Brazilian Institute of Finance Executives (IBEF)....
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The Lato Sensu Graduate Program of São Paulo Law School (GVlaw) has launched the course Law for non-lawyers: business perspective, aimed at freelance professionals, managers, executives, businessmen and entrepreneurs. The objective of the course is to enable these professionals to handle common legal business issues.The course was designed to...
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The Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) held its Annual Forum on December 4th. The goal was to share the work developed this year and point out projections for 2014, and to initiate the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Center of Studies, completed in September....
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The survey Citizens vs Banks - Institutional Drivers of Financial Market Litigiousness in Brazil?, produced by Professor Bruno Salama and the lawyer Thiago Jabor Pinheiro, was the highlight of the most recent Pesquisa em Foco, a journalistic product that seeks to detail research conducted by professors from São Paulo Law School.The work aims to...
