Durland Lecture 2012

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Jr., MBA '85, president and CEO of Grupo Aval S.A., delivers Durland Lecture

Brazil: A Pathway into the Future

This 2012 Brazil Conference, held at the Cornell Club in New York City, was a joint venture between Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute and Saõ Paulo-based think tank Better Brazil that brought together business, government, and academic leaders to address the benefits and challenges of doing business in Brazil

 

1. Doing business in Brazil offers a rocky road, but with dazzling promise

2. Keynote:Brazil: The B in BRICs

David Neeleman, Founder and CEO of Jet Blue and Azul Linha Aereas

3. Brazil: A Macro-economic Outlook

4. Power Generation, Oil and Gas:

The Challenges Ahead for an Emerging Power

5. Infrastructure in Brazil:

a Land of Opportunities

6. Business Experiences in Brazil:

Views from the Inside

7. From Knowledge Economy to Human Progress:

Walking the Talk

8. Closing Keynote:

Humberto Luiz Ribeiro da Silva, Secretary of Commerce and Services, Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade

Entrepreneurship Summit NYC 2012

Entrepreneur of the Year Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, was among the many innovative thinkers who shared their experiences addressing complex challenges and paving new solutions at this event. Speakers with close ties to Johnson included Jen Dulski ’93, MBA ’99, and Peter Knight ’73 and Kevin McGovern ’70, both members of Johnson’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Advisory Council.

Professor Andrew Karolyi and the Morrison Decision:

Measuring the Value of U.S. Securities Law to Investors