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IAG BUSINESS SCHOOL
PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
OF RIO DE JANEIRO
IAG BUSINESS SCHOOL

ABOUT PUC-RIO
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) is the leading private university in Brazil. It is organized into four centers,
24 departments and 13 institutes covering all fields of knowledge.
As a Jesuit, Catholic university, PUC-Rio is committed to high-quality teaching, applied research and scientific development based on
Christian values. It is an inherent part of its mission to contribute to educate socially-responsible citizens who will serve Brazilian
society with competence and conscience.
With approximately 10,000 undergraduate, 2,500 graduate, and 5,000 special programs students, PUC-Rio is recognized as one of the
top five universities in Brazil and one of the top two in Rio de Janeiro. It is among the Brazilian universities with the highest scientific
output, with approximately 400 areas of research and 150 established research teams.
Its graduates and faculty are among the leading experts in various fields, top managers of Brazilian firms, and highly-successful
professionals and artists. Several faculty members have served in the higher ranks of the Brazilian government’s bureaucracy as
Ministers, Advisors, Presidents or Directors since the University’s inception.
Student learning takes place in a privileged physical and educational environment. The University is located in Gavea, a charming
residential neighborhood near both the forest and the beach, between the South and the West zones of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The
campus is a pleasant green area with a stream running through it and hosts a large variety of different species of tropical flowers and
plants. The educational environment fosters academic rigor, creative thinking, free inquiry and open discussion to engender a community
of higher learning.
ABOUT IAG BUSINESS SCHOOL
IAG Business School was founded in 1978, as part of the Social Sciences Center of PUC-Rio. It offers undergraduate, graduate, doctoral,
and executive programs. It has three research centers and several independent lines of research. IAG is a founding member of the
Brazilian Academy of Management (ANPAD), which includes all graduate-level programs in the country.
The faculty has around 120 members. Many professors hold a PhD degree from some of the best universities in Brazil and around the
world. In addition to teaching and research responsibilities, professors are expected to engage in consulting activities in order to
remain attuned to the changing needs of the business community. These activities are carried out by IAG Consulting.
A field in which IAG has developed special skills is distance learning programs, which are seen as an important tool to serve the needs
of a country as large as Brazil. These programs are typically in-company.
During the last five decades, IAG Business School has educated more than 50,000 business professionals, many of whom now occupy
top positions in domestic and multinational firms and government organizations.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AT IAG
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
The PhD Program at IAG Business School has a strong focus in research methodology and independent inquiry. Areas of study are
Finance, Marketing, Organizations, and Strategy. The program prepares students for faculty positions in leading universities in Brazil
and throughout Latin America.
MBA PROGRAM
The MBA Program, created in 1972, was one of the first in the country. For the last 35 years it has been educating socially-responsible
and competent managers. Areas of concentration are Finance, Marketing, Organizations, and Strategy. Full-time students spend two
years in the program. In addition to the regular MBA, the school also offers an Executive MBA Program. The MBA Program has around
170 students.
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Program in Business Administration offered by IAG is PUC-Rio’s second most popular program, with 1,500 students.
Its mission is to develop students’ mental discipline, foster creativity, cultivate practical skills, and develop their full leadership potential.
The school offers an innovative and progressive curriculum to teach managers how to make competent and socially-responsible
decisions in turbulent times, and to understand what it takes to compete and succeed in a challenging global environment.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS
Executive programs offered by IAG Business School include the following one-year certificate programs: Management, Corporate
Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, and Project Management. Several special programs are offered during the year, covering
special topics in Business and related areas. The school also conducts several in-company programs which are specially designed to
fit the needs of the client organization.
FACULTY AT IAG
CORE FACULTY
Ana Heloísa da Costa Lemos (PhD, Sociology, IUPERJ)
André Luiz Carvalhal da Silva (PhD, Business Administration, Fed. Univ. Rio de Janeiro)
Angela da Rocha (PhD, Business Administration, IESE)
Antonio Carlos Figueiredo Pinto (PhD, Economics, FGV)
Jorge Ferreira da Silva (PhD, Industrial Engineering, PUC-Rio)
Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneiro (PhD, Business Administration, Fed. Univ. Rio de Janeiro)
Leonardo Lima Gomes (PhD, Industrial Engineering, PUC-Rio)
Luis Fernando Hor-Meyll Alvares (PhD, Business Administration, Fed. Univ. Rio de Janeiro)
Luiz FelipeJacques da Motta (PhD, Business Administration, Univ. Southern California)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT IAG
Research activities at IAG Business School aim at maintaining a scientific output commensurate with applicable international academic
standards. Research is seen as a foundation for excellence in teaching. Research output covers a broad range of publications, from
peer-reviewed journals to business magazines and books. To support the development of research activities, the School has established
three research centers:
• CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH – NUPIN
NUPIN aims to be a leader in research on the Internationalization of Brazilian and Latin American firms and to develop joint research
with scholars from Brazil, Latin America and around the world. It is funded by Pronex (Program for Research Centers of Excellence),
CNPq (the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development), CAPES (Coordination for the Development of Higher Education)
and FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Foundation to Support Research).
• CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN FINANCE
Luiz Eduardo Teixeira Brandão (PhD, Industrial Engineering, PUC-Rio)
Marcelo Cabus Klotzle (PhD, Economics, Katholische Universitat Eichstatt)
Marcos Cohen (PhD, Business Administration, PUC-Rio)
Maria Angela Campelo de Melo (PhD, Social Systems Sciences, Univ of Pennsylvania)
Marie Agnes Chauvel (PhD, Business Administration, Fed. Univ. Rio de Janeiro)
Patricia Amélia Tomei (PhD, Business Administration, Univ. São Paulo)
Paulo Cesar Motta (PhD, Business Administration, Univ. of Kansas)
Roger Volkema (PhD, Industrial Engineering, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
Sandra Regina da Rocha-Pinto (PhD, Education, PUC-Rio)
The center conducts research in the areas of Corporate Finance and Valuation, with special emphasis in state of the art techniques such
as real options valuation. Another area of interest is the study of the cost of capital for companies in Brazil, given the relative scarcity
of funds and, consequently, high cost of financial resources, in its fast growing economy. Corporate governance and its relationship to
stock valuation is another theme of research at the Center. The Center is supported by funds from CNPq, PUC-Rio and several research
and consulting projects with private and state-owned gas, oil and power companies.
• CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY
This multi-disciplinary research center is built on a partnership between IAG Business School, the Law School and the Department of
Philosophy. It aims to contribute to the debate on ethical issues in critical areas of Brazilian society, such as business ethics, government
ethics, and ethics in law, as well as issues associated with the environment and sustainability, and poverty and consumption. The
center is funded by FINEP (the Brazilian Agency to Finance Studies and Projects).
The majority of faculty members are involved in one of these research centers and many also pursue independent lines of research.
Teresia Diana van Aduard de Macedo-Soares (PhD, Economics & Social Studies, Univ.Montréal)
Walter Lee Ness Junior (PhD, Management, MIT)
Other faculty members, besides the core faculty, participate in undergraduate, certificate programs,
and special programs. The school regularly receives visiting professors from foreign universities.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT PUC-RIO AND IAG
BUSINESS SCHOOL
PUC-Rio has bilateral agreements with more than 170 universities and schools throughout the world, multilateral agreements with
more than 200 schools and double degree agreements with more than 20 schools in Europe and in the USA. Current affiliates include:
UNITED STATES
American University
Boston College
Emory University
Georgetown University
San Diego State University
Texas Tech University
The University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Davis
The University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of Oklahoma
University of Hawaii at Hilo
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland
University of Miami of Coral Gables
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
CANADA
University of Western Ontario
Saint Mary’s University
University of Alberta
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Flinders University (Australia)
Monash University (Australia)
University of Otago (New Zealand)
AFRICA
University of Science &Technology Kumasi (Ghana)
Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário (Mozambique)
EUROPE
ESSEC (France)
Université de Grenoble (France)
L´Ecole Supérieure des Affaires de Grenoble (France)
Lund University (Sweden)
Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic)
The University of Oslo (Norway)
Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal)
Universität Stuttgart (Germany)
Université Pierre-Mendès-France (France)
University of Lapland (Finland)
University of Leeds (UK)
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
WHU (Germany)
ASIA
Heibei University (China)
Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Kansai Gaidai University (Japan)
Sogang University (South Korea)
LATIN AMERICA
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina (Argentina)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador (Ecuador)
Universidad Autónoma de Asunción (Paraguay)
Universidad Católica de Uruguay (Uruguay)
Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico)
Universidad del Valle (Colombia)
Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
Universidad ORT Uruguay (Uruguay)

IAG Business School
Address: Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225
Gávea -22.451-041 – Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Phone: (5521) 2138-9200
www.iag.puc-rio.br