Head: Prof. Dr. Isak Kruglianskas

Mission

    The Mission of the Business Administration Department is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of Business Administration, to form highly competent and socially responsible business professionals. The Business Department wants to be recognized as the most advanced center of teaching, research and extension in organizational sciences in Latin America.
    To accomplish its mission and fulfill its strategic directives, the Business Department offers Undergraduate, Graduate and Specialization Programs, and counts on several specific Centers of Studies and with the support of the FIA – Fundação Instituto de Administração, an institution associated with the FEA/USP

Graduate Program in Business Administration - PPGA

    The Graduate Program in Business Administration is organized to offer two degrees: Master and Doctorate.

    Both are courses of academic nature (strictu-sensu), aimed at forming Professors and Researchers, free of tuition and offer the candidates the possibility to apply for a scholarship. The Graduate Program (PPGA) is top-ranked according to the classification provided by the biennial national evaluation of CAPES – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Professionals an organ of the MEC – Ministry of Education and Culture.

Master Degree

    The Master degree aims at starting the formation of students in activities of research and teaching in the Administration field. Annually, up to 60 places are offered. The selective process is highly competitive (approximately 9 candidates per place), includes tests, Curriculum Vitae evaluation and personal interview with candidates.

Doctoral Degree

    The doctoral degree aims at deepening the formation of the students in activities of research in Business Administration. The full dedication of the researcher is possible due to the strict academic nature of the course that is tuition free and offers scholarships sponsored by governmental agencies such as CAPES, CNPq and FAPESP. The selective process is highly competitive (approximately 10 candidates per place), includes tests, Curriculum Vitae evaluation and personal interview with the candidates. Important aspects of the evaluation are the involvement of the candidates with teaching activities and his/her intellectual production, characterized by publication in scientific magazines and events. Currently, 27 places are offered, but it varies from year to year.

Post Doctorate

    The Post-Doctorate Program aims at expanding and potentializing the research produced in the Business Administration Department, counting on the participation of Ph.D’s coming from other institutions, aligned with the Department’s lines of research.

    The Program is a full-time activity, developed under the responsibility of a Ph.D., according to the University’s regulations. It is expected that the candidates to the Post-Doctorate degree participate in the Department’s researches, as well as in the development of researches sponsored by is/her institution of origin. The outcomes of the researches are presented in seminars, periodically.

Indicators

Participation of the Faculty members in Research Projects in 2002

# of research projects	101
# of faculty members involved	38
# of students involved	47

Lectures Delivered by Visiting Professors

Scientific Events in which PPGA Faculty and Students participated in 2002

    National Events

· Assembléia do Conselho Latino-americano de Escolas de Administração (CLADEA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil (Session of the Latin American Council of the Business Schools)
· Congresso de Administração da COPPEAD, (COPPEAD Congress of Business Administration), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
· Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Eqüidade e Eficiência na Agricultura Brasileira (Brazilian Congress of Rural Economics and Sociology, Equity and Efficiency in the Brazilian Agriculture), Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil
· Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida (International Congress of the Brazilian Association of Life Quality), São Paulo, SP, Brasil
· Encontro da Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-graduação em Administração-ENANPAD, (Meeting of the National Association of the Graduate Programs in Business Administration) Salvador, BA, Brasil
· Encontro Brasileiro de Finanças (Brazilian Meeting of Finance), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
· Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção-ENEGEPE(National Meeting of Production Engineering), Curitiba, PR, Brasil
· Simpósio de Gestão da Inovação Tecnológica (Symposium on Technology Innovation Management), Salvador, BA, Brasil

    International Events

· Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Fresno, EUA
· Association for Business Simulation and Experimental Learning (ABSEL), Califórnia, EUA
· The Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS), Tampa, Florida, EUA
· Congresso Internacional del CLAD, Lisboa, Portugal
· Congresso Latino-americano de Estratégia (SLADE), Montevidéu, Uruguai
· Encontro Iberoamericano de Finanças e Sistemas de Informação, Sezimbra, Portugal
· European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC), Braga, Portugal
· European Operations Management Association Conference (EUROMA), Copenhagen, Dinamarca
· Global Forum on Management Education, Bangkok, Tailândia
· International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Holanda
· International Conference on e-Business, Beijing, China
· International Conference on Informaties Education Research, Barcelona, Espanha
· International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT), Miami, EUA
· International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Kansai, Japão
· International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA), Amsterdam, Holanda
· International Society for Third Sector Research, Capetown, África do Sul
· International Western Academy of Management Conference, Lima, Peru
· Seminario Iberoamericano para el Intercambio e la Actualización en Gerencia de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Havana, Cuba

Developed Researches

    The Business Department of FEA/USP boosts research activities, strengthening the traditional areas of excellence and creating conditions for the development of other areas, in line with the corporate environment dynamism and developing new areas of knowledge applied to the Brazilian economic reality within the globalization context. The Research Coordination works towards promoting the academic debate and the formation of active research teams, by means of several projects:

· Intensive Program of Seminars in several áreas of Business Administration
· Publication in the RAUSP – Revista de Administração da USP (Magazine of Business Administration) and the Caderno de Pesquisas em Administração (Business Research Bulletin )
· Working Papers Series, articles in pre-congress phase, which receives opinion and suggestion of interested researchers, aiming at the improvement for further publication
· Visiting Researcher Program, strengthening the regional integration and the international cooperation
· Post-doctorate Program, bringing the contribution of high-level researchers in specific fields of knowledge
· Scientific Initiation, with scholarships granting, intensive involvement of the students and incentive to publication
· Research techniques training, didactic methods and tools for the statistic analysis (SAS)
· International partnerships, fostering the flow of ideas, concepts and knowledge, by means of exchange programs, publication and international projects.

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