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At the end of October, the International Board of Fundação Getulio Vargas (DINT) organized the visit of two MBA classes of foreign universities: the Colombian Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and ESCP-Europe - European business school with campuses in Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and Turin.The 16 students of Jorge Tadeo Lozano were at FGV...
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The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), minister Joaquim Barbosa, has been at Fundação Getulio Vargas for an interview regarding the project The Supreme by its Ministers: the Oral History of the STF in the 25 years of the Constitution (1988-2013) - a partnership between Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV/DIREITO RIO) and the School of...
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The new premises of Fundação Getulio Vargas' main offices in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have just obtained the Habite-se - a certificate of the city government which authorizes the operation of buildings that meet the pre-requisites required by the city administration. The document was issued last Friday, November 1st, and concerns FGV's...
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FGV/EPGE - Graduate School of Economics and Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics (CLSBE) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa have just signed a bilateral cooperation agreement, in which graduate and undergraduate students of both institutions will be able to study at the partner university for up to one academic year, without...
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The Business Law professor of São Paulo Law School (DIREITO GV), Mariana Pargendler, has just received the prize Hessel Yntema, established in 1991 by the American Society of Comparative Law as a tribute to the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law. The award acknowledges the best article published in the magazine by...
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Today, November 29th, we are celebrating Black Friday ? a date created in the United States in which companies offer products with great discounts, traditionally the Friday that follows Thanksgiving. In view of some problems faced by Brazilians in the past year, such as masked prices and misleading propaganda, the Professor of Rio de...
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The coordinator of FGV?s School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC) in São Paulo, Oliver Stuenkel, represented FGV at the event Emerging Powers and Global Cooperation: A Focus on IBSA and BRICS, held in November at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Besides scholars from emerging countries such as China, India and Brazil, diplomats from...
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The professor of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Richard Fonseca, ministered on November 25th - 26th the extension course Rationality and truth in the public sphere, at Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), in Belém.The objective was to present, based on concepts from Ethics and Political Philosophy, the...
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This Monday, December 2nd, the Center for Global Economics at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/CEM) - in partnership with the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Firjan), Standart & Poor's and the Brazilian Institute of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (IBP) - will hold the seminar Reassessment of Brazil Risk. The meeting will...
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The Latin-American Public Policy Center of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/CLPP) and the Latin America Development Bank (CAF) will hold a presentation on the 2013 Economy and Development Report - which will feature a lecture by CAF's senior economist, Lucila Berniell, on Ventures in Latin America: from subsistence to efficient transformation. One...
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The Center for Studies in Finance (GVcef) of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) has presented a survey that indicates a growth of approximately 250%, between 2002 and 2013, of the assets invested in the thousand largest funds open to financing in the Brazilian market. The rate is much higher than the 40% evolution of the...
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Development ecology implemented by the government of Rio Grande do Sul state has already produced results in terms of the recovery of industrial production, employment and income in the state - with an increased participation of Rio Grande do Sul in national income. These are the main conclusions presented by the deputy director of FGV?s Public...
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The Underground Economy Index (IES) - calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas (IBRE/FGV) in partnership with the Brazilian Institute for Ethical Competition (ETCO) - reached the 15.9% mark in 2013, which represents a 0.8 percentage point reduction compared to the previous year. This is one of the results...
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The former student of Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), Anna Beatriz Luz Podcameni, assumed the Military Prosecutor position yesterday, in Brasília. She joined the School's first Law undergraduate class in 2009 and passed on the first civil-service examination that she took.Anna Beatriz, 27, says that the School was essential for her...
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The challenges for Latin American society and business in a multicultural world in transition. This is the theme of the 8th Iberoamerican Academy Conference - organized by São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) which will take place on December 8-10 at the School's main office.During the event, researchers of Fundação Getulio...
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On November 22, the assassination of US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy celebrated its 50th anniversary. As a result, political scientist at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE), Robert Gregory Michener, says that there are several similarities between the iconic president and the current leader of the...
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Wait until January to purchase durable goods like a refrigerator, stove and a car could be a good option for those who want to save. That is what the professor of São Paulo School of Economics (FGV/EESP), Samy Dana, stated in his column Caro Dinheiro (Dear Money), in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.According to Samy, the sales at the beginning...
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The professors of FGV's São Paulo Law School (DIREITO GV), Mario Engler Pinto Junior and Carlos Ari Sundfeld, will participate in the Brazilian Congress of State Companies - which will be held in Brasília on November 28 and 29. The event will bring together experts and ministers of courts of Justice for a pluralist and comprehensive assessment...
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The Center for Entrepreneurship and New Business (GVcenn) at São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP) will hold, on November 28th, the workshop Corporate Governance - the Randon case, with the testimony of Randon Group's stockholder, Maurien Randon Barbosa.The event aims to discuss the challenges of Corporate Governance in family...
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The professor of Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), Ivar Hartmann, participated, on November 21st, in a public hearing at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on prior authorization of biographies. Researchers and parliamentarians discussed the issue, which has caused controversy among authors, scholars and Brazilian artists.Ivar Hartmann...
