Uma avaliação estratégica da situação de crise e mudança das universidades federais brasileiras

Este trabalho de dissertação trata da administração universitária na área do governo federal. A pesquisa realizada investiga a situação de crise e mudança das Universidades Federais Brasileiras, através de três instmmentos: pesquisa bibliográfica que compõe a base teórica da investigação; entrevistas tendo como amostra a opinião de dirigentes universitários das Universidades Federais localizadas no Rio de Janeiro, quais sejam: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal Fluminense: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro e Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; e um questionário fechado contendo questões pontuais sobre a situação de crise das Universidades Federais Brasileiras, também aplicado ao mesmo gmpo entrevistado. O estudo realizado aborda questões relevantes para a compreensão da crise nestas instituições tais como: missão das Universidades Federais Brasileiras; Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão e sua indissociabilidade; a relação Governo - Universidades Federias Brasileiras: a relação Universidade -Sociedade; diferenças entre ensino superior público e privado no país; a questão da gratuidade nas Universidades Federais no Brasil; a massificação do ensino superior; a questão do corporativismo; a autonomia universitária, e as avaliações do sistema federal de ensino superior no país. Finalmente, um enfoque conclusivo avalia a situação de crise e a necessidade efetiva de implementar mudanças.

Essays on the relationship between the equity and the forward premium puzzles

Our research agenda consists in showing this strong relation between these puzzles based on evidences that both empirical failures are related to the incapacity of the canonical CCAPM to provide a high volatile intertemporal marginal rate of substitution with reasonable values for the preferences parameters.

Decision making process: a comparison between the public and private sector

The problem of decision making, its mechanisms and consequences is the very core of management, it is virtually impossible to separate the act of manage from this knowledge area. As defined by Herbert Simon – "decision making" as though it were synonymous with "managing". A decision is a selection made by an individual regarding a choice of a conclusion about a situation. This represents a course of behavior pertaining to what must be done or what must not be done. A decision is the point at which plans, policies and objectives are translated into concrete actions. Our behavior during decisive moments is closely linked with our brain dominance profile. Over the years, our decision-making processes develop a consistent pattern, which can be described as a decision-making style. Our style is grounded in our preferences, which arise from our brain dominance characteristics […]. The importance of understanding the impact of our thinking preferences and how to improve the effectiveness as a leader of organizations are the main justifications for this thesis; the main problem addressed is the behavioral profile diversity in a selective Master’s cohort formed by students from several different countries. The research methodology approach has been quantitative, through questionnaire administration using the HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument), a validated framework developed by William "Ned" Herrmann when he was the leader of General Electric's Crotonville facility. This questionnaire has been administered in hundreds of thousands professional, enabling the possibility to establish correlations between a certain group and several historical databases. The selected group of analysis is the first cohort (23 students) from the CIM (Corporate International Master's), a joint program between Georgetown University (USA), ESADE (Spain) and FGV (Brazil). Besides decision preferences, the obtained profile enables the discussion on leadership style, heuristic's pitfalls and a base to compare with future cohorts. The fundamental research question is: how diverse is the dominant decision-making profile for the CIM students?

Brazil’s 2014 presidential elections: the interconnection between election news and stock market behavior

This study researches whether there has been abnormal stock market behaviour in Brazil as a consequence of election news (observed via opinion polls), regarding the last Brazilian presidential election, held in October 2014. Via applying event study methodology, the research on the Ibovespa and Petrobras suggests that events in which Rousseff was gaining in share have been subject to negative abnormal returns, and events where Rousseff was loosing in share have led to positive abnormal returns. Moreover, volatility has been significantly elevated during the election period and volume has been found to have slightly increased.