{"id":7025,"date":"2016-11-21T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:10:39","slug":"obrigada-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/obrigada-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"MIB Regional Specialization: Obrigada Brazil!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 1st<\/sup>, a group of 6 MIB students woke up really early to catch the first S-bahn to the airport and start the trip for our regional specialization.\u00a0 We were really happy to leave cold and rainy Germany, and excited to arrive, 15 hours later, in the sunny and warm\u00a0Rio de Janeiro.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Brazil, the country of Samba, Caipirinhas and Football, were the first words we saw on the airport, which by the way, are pretty much all the words that the world relate to Brazil, therefore, I wasn\u00b4t sure what we were going to experience and get to know.<\/p>\n

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For those who want a little introduction to the city, Rio de Janeiro is the second-largest city in Brazil, the sixth-largest city in the Americas, and the world’s thirty-fifth-largest city by population. The city served as the capital of Brazil until 1960, when the capital was transferred to Brasilia, reason why big companies, such as Petrobras, still have their headquarters in there.<\/p>\n

The schedule started with an interesting talk with\u00a0Marcelo Guedes Roque<\/strong>, who is President of the Business Council of Young Entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, CEO and Investor of several companies, who described the way of doing business in Brazil, the high amounts of taxation and the procedures for opening a business in Brazil. After this, we had a\u00a0tour around Rio\u00a0<\/strong>and took the cable car up to\u00a0Sugarloaf<\/strong>, one of the highest mountains in the city, where you can experience a unique panorama, afterwards some of us decided to go the giant statue of\u00a0Christ the Redeemer<\/strong>\u00a0at the top of Corcovado mountain and after a long and sunny day, we all met to have dinner and enjoy the famous districts of\u00a0Copacabana\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Ipanenma.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During the second day we went to our partner university,\u00a0FGV<\/strong>\u00a0(Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Get\u00falio Vargas)<\/strong>, where we listened to an interesting presentation about the relevance of Tourism in Brazil and how it has developed (economically and socially) after the execution of 5 mega-events in Brazil (World Cup, Olympics, Young people meeting with the Pope\u2026) while enjoying some traditional\u00a0Pao de Queijo<\/strong>. Later, we went to\u00a0GIZ (Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbei)<\/strong>\u00a0where they explained the \u00a0projects (Germany and Brazil are working on together), \u00a0such as protection and sustainable use of tropical forests, as well as in renewable energy and energy efficiency or even a program for helping education in Brazil through sports training.<\/p>\n

The last day at Rio, we went to the\u00a0Museum of Tomorrow<\/strong>, located in the heart of the Olympic Village, which was built two years ago in response to the need for change and avoid climate disaster, environmental degradation and social collapse.\u00a0 Finally, after some free time we started our transfer to Paraty.<\/p>\n

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Paraty<\/strong>\u00a0is a preserved Portuguese colonial and Brazilian municipality. It is located on the Costa Verde (Green Coast). Has become a popular tourist destination in recent years, for showing the varied and diverse Brazilian culture, result of the mixing between Portuguese and African migrants. All of these different influences have meant that the modern-day Brazilian culture is unique and very complex. The first day we had the opportunity of going on a\u00a0jeep<\/strong>\u00a0up to the\u00a0tropical forest<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0waterfalls,<\/strong>\u00a0where some of us even slid into the water. Afterwards, we went to two\u00a0Cacha<\/strong>\u00e7<\/strong>a\u00b4s distilleries<\/strong>\u00a0to see the preparation of this famous drink and of course, experience different flavors; the day ended with a little\u00a0tour around the city<\/strong>. The next day we relaxed in the city and prepare our transfer to Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n

Sao Paulo<\/strong>\u2026THE city.<\/strong>\u00a0One of the world\u2019s biggest metropolises. With 17 million habitants, is the cultural and financial capital of Brazil. A\u00a0MUST<\/strong>\u00a0to go city, especially if you are an international business student.<\/p>\n

During the first day we had a tour around the city, where we visited\u00a0Av Paulista,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0center,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0cathedral,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0Japanese quarter<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The Stock Exchange<\/strong>, which is the biggest one in South America, and watch a little video of the transactions performed in there. During the afternoon, we went to the\u00a0Annual Startups and Entrepreneurship Conference<\/strong>, which is an event created to bring content, networking, and business opportunities for + 6,000 entrepreneurs. We had the opportunity to listen to national and international speakers talking about digital economies and IT Brazilian development as well as talking with entrepreneurs in new industries in the South Cone.<\/p>\n

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On the next day, we had an interesting talk with\u00a0Paulo Salvador<\/strong>, Distribution director in\u00a0Accor Hotels<\/strong>\u00a0(the group that manages hotels like Mercure, Ibis, Intercity\u2026), mostly about cultural environment, the challenges of facing an increasing competition in the hotel business mainly driven by Airbnb and how tourism is helping Brazilian economy, after all, using his own words, the\u00a0worst enemy of strategy is culture<\/strong>. Later we went to\u00a0JLL (Jones Lang La Salle),<\/strong>\u00a0where we had a conference about compliance, Brazilian different regulations in comparison with LATAM (for example, employee laws), and how to assure the implementation of the American compliance strategy within the country.<\/p>\n

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Finally after 9 days, the last day arrived. We woke up really early and went to\u00a0TOTVS,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>one of the largest ERP providers in the world and leader in Latin America, with over 50% market share in Brazil. They explained us their process of providing\u00a0business solutions<\/strong>\u00a0to enterprises of all sizes with\u00a0integrated management software<\/strong>,\u00a0collaboration\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0productivity platforms<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0consulting services<\/strong>. Once in there, we went to the\u00a0LAB<\/strong>\u00a0to experience the process of developing software, which believe it or not, starts by matching LEGOS!!<\/p>\n

I mentioned before I wasn\u00b4t sure what we were going to experience and get to know when landed into Brazil, now I know, is the\u00a0culture<\/strong>, the\u00a0people<\/strong>, their\u00a0charisma<\/strong>, the\u00a0effort<\/strong>\u00a0placed in everything done that makes the Latin culture so special, and you can experience this particularly in Brazil, due to their enormous size and diverse population. If you are interested on the\u00a0MIB program<\/strong>, I encourage you to pick\u00a0LATAM specialization<\/strong>\u00a0and not only enjoy a great climate and delicious drinks, but also a diversified and unique environment in the world!!<\/p>\n

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