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On October 16, speakers and organizers of GES celebrated the seminar with a gala dinner at the Copacabana Palace. President Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal opened the meeting welcoming everyone. Quoting an excerpt from No man is an island, by the British, John Donne, he reflected on the importance of discussing global problems in order to solve them...
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Since its event, GES has always had the support of volunteers. For this edition, FGV encouraged its students to actively participate in the production of the symposium during the two day event. About 50 students from Brazil and abroad alternated in 4 hours shifts to support FGV's team and the speakers in each of the panels and roundtables....
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For the first time in Brazil, the Global Economic Symposium 2012 gathered about a thousand people on October 16th and 17th in Hotel Windsor Atlântica, in Leme district. Idealized by Kiel Institute for the World Economy, an institution based in Kiel, Germany, with the support of Bertelsmann Stiftung and ZBW, the symposium was organized this year...
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On October 15, executives of Bertelsmann Stiftung (BST), German Think Tank, a partner of GES, were at the headquarters of FGV for a meeting with President Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, Vice President Sergio F. Quintella, the counselor Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias and directors.IDE's directors, Stavros Xanthopoylos and Mary Murashima, presented,...
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The Center for Retail Excellence (GVcev), in partnership with the Commercial Association of São Paulo (ACSP) and the Federation of Trade Associations of the State of São Paulo (FACESP), will coordinate a business delegation to attend the 102th edition of the Retail's Big Show , of the National Retail's Federation (NRF), in the United States -...
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On October 4, FGV Projetos held the III Brazil Infrastructure Investments Forum - a partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce which aimed to discuss the strategic areas of Brazil's infrastructure and investment opportunities. The President of the Court of Audit, Benjamin Zymler, the president of Empresa de Transporte Ferroviário de Alta...
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EAESP's OneMBA is once again among the top 100 executive MBAs in the world, according to the Financial Times' annual ranking. Only two Brazilian institutions are among the selected and EAESP occupies the 24th position, ahead of programs of traditional universities such as Columbia, Cornell and Oxford. EAESP's executive MBA is developed in...
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Today, FGV welcomes U.S. Ambassador, Derek Shearer, for a lecture on U.S. Elections: What's at stake?, organized by the International Relations Center. Shearer is a Diplomacy and International Affairs professor at Occidental College and has served in the U.S. department of commerce during the Clinton administration. He was also a member of the...
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DIREITO GV, in partnership with the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, is coordinating the selection of students to participate in the global classroom online headed by Harvard professor Michael Sandel, author of the TV series Justice. Three students will be chosen from the three courses that the Foundation offers in the city: Law, Economics and...
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The co-founder and executive chairman of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, was at FGV in São Paulo last week to chat with students and professors of the institution. For the first time in Brazil, Dorsey talked about the history of Twitter, from its origin to present day. Discussing the impact of the information network on people, business and society,...
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FGV?s Rio de Janeiro School of Economics (EPGE) held, on April 2, its sixth meeting in the series Contemporary Issues, which brings to the academic environment debates on issues of high current social relevance. On Tuesday, the School welcomed sociologist Maurício Murad - Sports Sociology Professor of the Masters program at the University...
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Students on the Innovation Management Course, taught by Professor Paulo Figueiredo at FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration?s Undergraduate Administration Program, participated, on April 2, in Harvard Business School?s Strategic Innovation Simulation. In the simulation, students are placed in the positions of Presidents...
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Public policies nowadays involve a large number of domestic and international actors seeking to influence them - such as international organizations, foreign governments, interest groups, experts, academics and knowledge centers. And it is in this scenario that Fundação Getulio Vargas is increasingly becoming more important. FGV's role as a...
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Professors at FGV's Law Schools in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro will participate in the 24th Annual Conference on Competition Law in the Telecommunications Sector, scheduled for the 29th and 30th of April, in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting - organized by the International Bar Association (IBA), a global body which brings together...
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FGV?s School of Public and Business Administration in Rio de Janeiro (EBAPE) welcomed, on April 1st, around 50 students from Tilburg University for a lecture given by Professor André Coelho. During the event, they discussed the impacts on the business environment in Brazil as a result of major sporting events (World Cup and Olympics...
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In March, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) participated in the Council of Councils (CoC) second annual meeting - an international initiative created by the Council of Foreign Relations that brings together the leading think tanks from around the world. The council is based in the United States and discusses key issues of global concern with...
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Despite the crisis in Europe, Brazilian and Latin American businessmen remain optimistic about the economies of their countries. That's what the Global Business Overview research revealed, carried out by FGV?s School of Economics in São Paulo (EESP) in partnership with Duke University and CFO Magazine, and with the support of BMFBovespa and the...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), in partnership with Angola?s National School of Administration (ENAD) and the Polytechnic Institute of Angola (ISPAN), has just launched two MBA programs in Angola: Business Management and Project Management. The courses? opening class took place on March 22, in Luanda, with the presence of ENAD's general...
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A website that will collect data for Well Being Brazil (WBB), a well-being index in Brazil - an unprecedented indicator in the country that will measure Brazilian?s level of well-being from the needs and desires of the population, has been launched in São Paulo. An initiative by EAESP's Center for the Study of Happiness and Financial Behavior,...
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FGV?s International Relations Center Coordinator, CPDOC's Professor, Elena Lazarou, will participate in the International Studies Association?s 54th Annual Convention, which will address the Politics of international dissemination: global and regional dimensions. The convention will be held April 3-6 in San Francisco, California. On...
