Managing Dual Enrollment Programs: Review of Program Models, Operations, and Outcomes

Universities that offer dual enrollment programs for high school students must manage increasing student demand in the face of changing state legislation. This brief examines how institutions finance their dual enrollment programs, and how they ensure academic rigor as their programs continue to grow. The report also considers how dual enrollment programs ensure that students can transfer credits, and what strategies they use to encourage DE students to matriculate as undergraduates.

Developing a Credit for Prior Learning Program: System-Wide Strategies for Program Creation, Operations, and Recruitment

Credit for prior learning programs help students complete degrees more quickly and for less money. This report addresses the challenges of scaling up a credit for prior learning program at the university system level, and explores the delineation of responsibilities between system staff and institutional staff.

Desestatização da Rede Ferroviária Federal S/A: impactos sobre os recursos humanos da administração geral

o presente trabalho buscou descrever a solução adotada pela Rede Ferroviária Federal SI A-RFFSA, para redução de seu quadro de pessoal, com vistas à desestatização, escolhida esta corno via para sua sobrevivência em meio à grave crise econômico-financeira que vinha atravessando nos seus últimos anos como empresa controlada pelo governo federaL Procurou-se apresentar os impactos do Programa de Incentivo ao DesligamentoPID sobre o quadro de pessoal da Administração Geral-AG da RFFSA, fazendo-se as necessárias ligações para mostrar que o Programa de Desligamentos Incentivados da Rede Ferroviária Federal insere-se num quadro maior, seguindo as linhas de uma política pública determinada pelo governo federal para seus recursos humanos. Tanto no passado quanto no seu presente de transição, a RFFSA carece de definições consistentes sobre sua Missão e sua Filosofia Empresarial. A incongruência manifestada em sua cultura organizacional encontra nesta falta de bússola segura uma de suas causas. Como reflexo, as medidas desestatizantes na Rede Ferroviária Federal atingiram diretamente seu patrimônio humano. conforme busca-se descrever no presente trabalho. Por outro lado, a Rede Ferroviária Federal, mesmo concedendo à iniciativa privada o direito às operações da ferrovia, não perde seu caráter de empresa pública. Seu papel estratégico, por tratar-se de empresa do ramo de transporte, diretamente responsável pela circulação da produção nacional, amplia o compromisso social que deve caracterizar as empresas estatais. Diante da alteração de seu papeL o órgão da Rede Ferroviária Federal objeto deste estudo, a Administração Geral, será colocado frente à necessidade de também alterar sua estrutura organizacional. As novas relações com o poder público e com as concessionárias exigirão novas posturas a serem adotadas proativamente pela AG. Por isso, buscou-se fornecer melhor entendimento do quadro atual da RFFSA, a partir de seu passado, realçando as relações governo/ferrovia/empresários. Estas relações mostram a prevalecência dos interesses políticos sobre os aspectos técnicos, em muitas decisões da vida da ferrovia brasileira, com conseqüências prejudiciais ao desfecho da história ferroviária. Para se chegar ao entendimento dos caminhos tornados pela RFFSA na formulação de suas políticas, foi necessário levantar a política do governo federal para as empresas estatais, uma vez que estas foram perdendo gradativamente sua autonomia, ficando cada vez mais dependentes das restrições colocadas a nível federal.. Neste cenário maior, inserese o Programa de Desligamentos Incentivados implantado na AG da RFFSA Finalmente, buscou o presente trabalho levantar os desafios para a AG-RFFSA neste novo papel da Rede Ferroviária no cenário do transporte ferroviário concedido à iniciativa privada.

Operations strategy in perspective: the means for achieving superior performance

Manufacturing strategy has been widely studied and it is increasingly gaining attention. It has a fundamental role that is to translate the business strategy to the operations by developing the capabilities that are needed by the company in order to accomplish the desired performance. More precisely, manufacturing strategy comprises the decisions that managers take during a certain period of time in order to achieve a desire result. These decisions are related to which operational practices and resources are implemented. Our goal was to identify the relationship between these two decisions with operational performance. We based our arguments on the resource-based view for identifying sources of competitive advantage. Hence, we argued that operational practices and resources affect positively the operational performances. Additionally, we proposed that in the presence of some resources the implementation of operational practices would lead to a greater performance. We used previous scales for measuring operational practices and performance, and developed new constructs for resources. The data used is part of the High Performance Manufacturing project and the sample is composed by 291 plants. Through confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regressions we found that operational practices to a certain extant are positively related to operational performance. More specifically, the results show that JIT and customer orientation practices have a positive relationship with quality, delivery, flexibility, and cost performances. Moreover, we found that resources like technology and people explain a great variance of operational performance.

Arrecadação recorrente, ciclo econômico e on-off operations

Instituto Brasileiro de Economia

Regulatory reform in the brazilian railway sector and concession valuation: a preliminary assessment

Trabalho apresentado na 4th Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures

Regulatory reform in the brazilian railway sector and its potential effects

Trabalho apresentado no Law and Society Annual Conference, 2015

Regulatory reform in the brazilian railway sector: a preliminary assesment

Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas

Cultural strategies: how do national cultures impact the operations strategy?

Through the assessment of the fourth round of the High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) project and the introduction of Hofstede’s Cultural Classification, the present work aims to deepen the comprehension of the impact of National Cultures on firms’ Operations Strategy. The ANOVA comparisons of four Operations Strategy elements in countries with different industrialization and development backgrounds (e.g. Germany, China, Brazil and South Korea) suggest that while Integrating Leadership and Implementation of Manufacturing Strategy are affected by the cultural levels of Power Distance, Individualism vs. Collectivism and Uncertainty Avoidance, the other two elements of Operations Strategy, Functional Integration and Formal Manufacturing Strategy, show effects of the degree of Individualism vs. Collectivism and Long-Term Orientation. The results of the study are expected to offer new perspectives on the planning and implementation of strategic and operations management for both practitioners and academics. More specifically, the analysis of cross-cultural influence over operations strategy may contribute to a better understanding of how cooperative behavior may lead firms to generate higher rents through the strengths and weaknesses of their relations, particularly in terms of global supply chains.

Structuring a startup's operations in an emerging market

The present work analyzes the establishment of a startup’s operations and the structuring all of the processes required to start up the business, launch the platform and keep it working. The thesis’ main focus can therefore be described as designing and structuring a startup’s operations in an emerging market before and during its global launch. Such business project aims to provide a successful case regarding the creation of a business and its launch into an emerging market, by illustrating a practical example on how to structure the business’ operations within a limited time frame. Moreover, this work will also perform a complete economic analysis of Brazil, thorough analyses of the industries the company is related to, as well as a competitive analysis of the market the venture operates in. Furthermore, an assessment of the venture’s business model and of its first six-month performance will also be included. The thesis’ ultimate goal lies in evaluating the company’s potential of success in the next few years, by highlighting its strengths and criticalities. On top of providing the company’s management with brilliant findings and forecasts about its own business, the present work will represent a reference and a practical roadmap for any entrepreneur willing to establish his operations in Brazil.

Humanitarian operations in Brazil: a review of natural disasters in the last decade

This research used documentary analysis to identify the main natural disasters in Brazil in the last decade (2003 to 2013). Results provided evidence that operations and impacts differ in sudden-onset and slow-onset disasters and that Government is the main player in the Humanitarian Operations in Brazi

Effects of dredging operations on sediment quality: contaminant mobilization in dredged sediments from the Port of Santos, SP, Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Modeling and analysis of artificial neural networks applied in operations research

Artificial neural networks are dynamic systems consisting of highly interconnected and parallel nonlinear processing elements. Systems based on artificial neural networks have high computational rates due to the use of a massive number of these computational elements. Neural networks with feedback connections provide a computing model capable of solving a rich class of optimization problems. In this paper, a modified Hopfield network is developed for solving problems related to operations research. The internal parameters of the network are obtained using the valid-subspace technique. Simulated examples are presented as an illustration of the proposed approach. Copyright (C) 2000 IFAC.