Strategic Management of Brazilian Universities

Strategic Management and Universities ’ Institutional Development

Strategic IT Management in Brazilian Banks

Success in the competition in the banking business is related to the development of core competencies, strategic alliances and long term strategic planning. Significant changes in the Brazilian financial sector have required banks to continually reinvent their business supported by adequate strategies and resource management. This paper, based on a survey of Brazilian banks, shows that the effe...

Homer's odyssey and Brazilian universities

On August 7, the Brazilian Senate passed a bill (180/2008) establishing a quota policy for students’ admission to federal universities. Beginning next year, Brazilian federal universities must offer 50% of their places to students who graduated from public schools. In each state, these places must be distributed according to the state’s ethnic distribution (black or Brazilian natives). Although...

Universities Strategic Evaluation Using Balanced Scorecard

Defining strategic position of the organizations within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important phases of strategic planning to which extent that one of the fundamental schools of strategic planning is the strategic positioning school. In today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creat...

Indoor Air Quality in Brazilian Universities

This study evaluated the indoor air quality in Brazilian universities by comparing thirty air-conditioned (AC) (n = 15) and naturally ventilated (NV) (n = 15) classrooms. The parameters of interest were indoor carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, relative humidity (RH), wind speed, viable mold, and airborne dust levels. The NV rooms had larger concentration of mold than the AC rooms (1001.30 ± 12...