Ask any business school student about their hobbies and they will inevitably be able to tell you about all the different places they have traveled around the world. With all these type-A individuals, competition often arises over the number of visas in one’s passport. Most of these trips are completed with tour guides of sights [...]
Read moreOur class spent another day in the Cidade Maravilhosa, the Marvelous City. Unfortunately, the weather has not been too cooperative since we arrived, but at least this morning we were busy working in teams making our preparations for tomorrow’s final presentations. After lunch, we headed to the offices of Ipiranga, one of Brazil’s largest fuel [...]
Read more“Play, fight, and teach for the war.” This is the purpose of the art of capoeira – a Brazilian martial art that combines aerial acrobatics, simulated combat skills, music and dance. On Tuesday of our final week here in Brazil, we had the opportunity to both see and learn capoeira thanks to our friends at [...]
Read moreToday we visited Libra Terminais at their port in Rio de Janeiro. Libra Terminais is an operating unit of Grupo Libra, which is a privately owned logistics company with several locations in Brazil. Grupo Libra is comprised of four business units including its ports, logistics facilitation, a recent acquisition of an airport and partnerships with [...]
Read moreAfter arriving into Rio de Janeiro late in the afternoon on Saturday, Sunday was our first full free day of the trip. Many of us scurried on Saturday to organize and book day trips for Sunday. Several itineraries included: hiking in the national park to see wild life, seeing the Christ the Redeemer statue, relaxing [...]
Read moreOne of the many positive results of the pacification process and the Unidade de Policia Pacificadora (UPP) is the installation of the Alemao Cable Car. Launched in July 2011, the cable car spans 3.5 km over the community, offering a birds-eye view of the densely populated area. Aside from views of the community, the cable [...]
Read moreRio de Janeiro has long been known not only for its beauty and party atmosphere but also for its urban crime and striking social inequality. But today’s site visit to Complexo do Alemao, one of the city’s largest communities of urban poor (often referred to by outsiders as favelas – but we know better), gave [...]
Read moreIn Brazil, the price of consumer electronic products especially TV is higher than other market regions. Due to a high margin in the TV industry of Brazil and regulation of digital TV, LCD TV is starting to boom. Old brands grab the lion’s share, but as brand loyalty is just establishing global brands and new [...]
Read moreTake the expanse of Los Angeles and combine it with the height of Manhattan and you may still fall short of the sheer magnitude of Sao Paolo. Yet, despite being the sixth largest city in the world (larger than both of the above cities) and home to 11 million people, I never really felt the [...]
Read moreOur last afternoon in Minas Gerais state we headed down the windy mountain roads to visit the city of Ouro Preto. Ouro Preto was the first city in Brazil founded in 1700 by Portuguese settlers. It is also one of the first cities in the world to be declared a World Cultural Heritage Site by [...]
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