Our first-hand research included sit visits to several companies and institutions while in Brazil.
More information on these excursions expanded below.
Instituto Gênesis
Instituto Gênesis is part of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio). PUC is the largest Catholic University in Brazil. Instituto Gênesis was established in 1997. The institute’s mission is to transfer knowledge from the University to society and contribute to the quality of life in the region, through the training of entrepreneurs and incubation of successful socially conscious companies.
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Accenture
Over two-thirds of their client base is comprised of Fortune 500 companies. Accenture focuses on three distinct areas of outsourcing: Infrastructure, Application and Business Process. The Accenture office in Curitiba focuses on Global Management Consulting and Outsourcing operations in the areas of Business Process Optimization and Application Management.
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HSBC
HSBC in Brazil has over 29,000 employees and about 1,700 branches in 550 different cities. It is among the 10 largest banks in Brazil. Their headquarters is located in Curitiba. The Brazilian portion of HSBC is the bank’s largest group in Latin America. In total HSBC has over 300,000 employees, located all over the world.
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O GLOBO
O Globo Communications Group is an international media chain. O Globo was formed in 1925 as a daily paper. It is the largest newspaper in Latin America and one of the ten largest companies in Brazil. Over sixty-five years, the work done at the daily newspaper has been extended and diversified as the communications requirements of the modern world have become more sophisticated and demanding. The O Globo daily newspaper is the leading paper in Rio de Janeiro and has a print run of 300,000 copies on working days and 400,000 on Sundays. This makes it the newspaper with the widest readership in Brazil.
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Blusoft
Blusoft is a private, non-profit organization with the mission of supporting and encouraging the development of software and technology in Blumenau, Brazil. This is accomplished by channeling financial resources, scholarships, work, and equipment to incubate and develop technology companies.
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T-Systems
T-Systems is the business customer section of Deutsche Telekom. T-Systems was created in 2000. Deutsche Telekom headquarters is located in Germany and in 2006 they had revenue of €61.3 billion. T-Systems provide IT and telecommunication services for Deutsche Telekom customers. T-Systems has over 56,000 employees in over 20 different countries. T-Systems Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions allows customers to lease software, hardware, computing services and storage capacity as well as telecommunications services.
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