Campus Aloysio Faria
Av. Princesa Diana, 760
Alphaville Lagoa dos Ingleses
34000-000 – Nova Lima – MG – Brazil
Campus BH
Rua Bernardo Guimarães, 3.071
Santo Agostinho
30140-083 – Belo Horizonte – MG – Brazil
Campus SP
Av. Dr. Cardoso de Melo, 1.184 – 15º- andar
Vila Olímpia
04548-004 – São Paulo – SP – Brazil
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Av. Afrânio de Melo Franco, 290 – 2º- andar
Leblon
22430-060 – Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brazil
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INTERNATIONAL LEARNING JOURNEYS
YOUR INTEGRATIVE IMMERSION PROGRAM
Brazilian business school
with international reach.
Learn about Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)
10 years among the best business schools in the world*
The mission of Fundação Dom Cabral since its founding in 1975 has been the sustainable development of individual and
organizations. To accomplish this mission, FDC designs and implements innovative executive programs that combine
theory and practice, academic education with business experience, and bottom line results with ethics and sustainability.
That is how Fundação Dom Cabral has been developing executives, public managers, entrepreneurs and organizations
from the most diverse sectors in many countries for almost 40 years. FDC offers the most innovative solutions that are
supported by strategic alliances and cooperation agreements with renowned academic institutions in six of the seven
continents around the world. This network of schools allows FDC to access modern management tools, to exchange
experiences, and to generate joint knowledge in a global framework.
Our philosophy – to work WITH our clients and not FOR our clients – respects the identity and culture of each client
organization, sectorial needs of their businesses, and the dynamics of their particular markets. FDC has become an
international reference that contributes to sustainable development of society through education and skills building: our
programs host over 40 thousand executives every year. All of the high value-added knowledge generated and applied
by FDC is strategically relevant to individuals, organizations, and to society in general. These capabilities can be applied
successfully to your organization’s needs.
FDC Faculty blends academic and professional experience with a broad knowledge of economic, political and social
issues in Brazil. We maintain Research Centers to forecast trends and paths in several management fields to enable it to
analyze and understand the business environment better.
*According to the Financial Times Executive Education Ranking
Why take the journey?
Whether your students have minimal work experience such as typical undergraduates, or they are more experienced managers
such as MBAs, or highly experienced executives such as EMBAs and/or alumni, all students and practitioners of management
face a number of common challenges that typically are not addressed in most management degree programs. These include:
•G
aining an appreciation and a solid working knowledge of international business including the unique risks associated with
investing and operating abroad, and cross-cultural imperatives.
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eyond the normal risks of international business, understanding the challenges and responses to investing and operating
in an emerging economy with such typical complexities as corruption, weak infrastructure, bureaucratic delays, and severe
limitations in capital acquisition and profit repatriation.
•A
pplying the theory obtained in the degree program to real world challenges and opportunities via analytical small team
research projects, which serve as an integrative learning experience. Not only will your students get to practice effective
team building and management among peers, they also will fine-tune their creative and critical thinking, writing, and
presentation skills.
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ddressing complex issues that go beyond the functional management disciplines, which is the focus of most degree
programs. In addition to reviewing and adapting the management functions in a new overseas context, the students will
address complex issues such as top line growth, increasing profitability, innovation, globalization, sustainability, and social
imperatives such as inclusion and the inequality of income distribution.
The International Learning Journeys Program is an intensive and integrative learning experience, which helps your students
incorporate and synthesize all that they have learned to date in a dynamic overseas experiential learning framework.
Key Benefits for your Students
•Develop a mindset for global business and global competitiveness;
•Learn and practice to deal effectively with the unique risks of international investment and operations;
•Understand how to work through the complex and difficult infrastructure, bureaucratic, and cultural challenges of an
emerging economy;
•Work through small team analytical projects to apply and adapt the knowledge learned in their academic program to the
opportunities and challenges of a particular company, industry or business sector in an overseas economy;
•Acquire knowledge about complex themes – such as top line growth, innovation, globalization, sustainability and social
inclusion – that go beyond the traditional functional disciplines; and apply this knowledge in their analytical small team
projects;
•Meet, learn from, and build networks with key influencers in government, NGOs, and the private sector in the country(s)
of the International Learning Journeys focus;
•Have the opportunity to reflect upon their academic program to date and to integrate, synthesize, apply, and refine their
acquired knowledge in analytical projects, as well as to consider educational and professional career choices going forward.
Campus Aloysio Faria
Program Framework
Menu of Content Options
Because International Learning Journeys is designed as a custom program, the content and teaching methodologies are
developed around the particular needs of each group of students, in order to provide them with knowledge, skills and insights
to successfully understand and operate in an international business environment.
Program content is built according to each group’s needs. FDC is prepared to offer the International Learning Journeys
Program with a focus in various themes and industries. Examples include:
The program can include:
•Pre and post modules activities: at home university or online;
•Classroom sessions on pre-determined topics/themes of interest;
•Company Visits;
•Cultural Events;
•Project research to accelerate the development of an integrated perspective on international management and business
challenges.
Theme Focus
General Management
•Brazilian history, politics and culture
•Strategy
•Sustainability
•Marketing
•Innovation
•Leadership
Global Marketplace
•Markets and the consumer behavior
•The impacts of higher consumption on sustainability
•How consumer growth changes entrepreneurship
Organizational Transformation
•The external and internal drivers of transformation
•Organizational transformation in different markets
•Culture, values and identity
•Strategy and structure
•Business Models
•Decision making process
•Cultural intelligence
•Uncertainty X Ambiguity
•Management of Virtual Teams
•Collaboration and Shared Responsibility
Public Affairs
•Recent trends
•Institutions
•Identification of major issues on Public Policies
•Macroeconomic Policies
•Social Policies
•Environmental Policies
Industry Focus
•Banking and Finance
•Mining
•Oil and Gas
•Retailing
•Agribusiness
•Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics
•Government
Learning about the Market
During the program, students will have a chance to visit middle to large-size Brazilian companies, multinationals, public institutions,
ONGs and family households. Such an experience will make it possible to carry out a unique market analysis through real-life
examples presented by these organization’s top leaders.
Some examples of company visits include:
• Natura (Cosmetics)
• Petrobras (Oil & Gas)
• Bovespa (Stock Exchange)
• Nestlé (Consumer Goods)
• EMBRAER (Aerospace)
• Vale (Mining and Metals)
• IBM (IT)
• Localiza (Car Rental)
• BNDES
• National Congress (Senate)
Issues to consider and decide upon when planning an International
Learning Journeys experience:
Client Universities
At what point in your program curriculum should the International Learning Journey take place?
• Brown University
• Kellogg School of Management
• Rotman School of Management
• Schulich School of Business
• University of St. Gallen
• Hult International Business School
Some options:
• Towards the beginning of your program: to show your students, first-hand, through their analytical projects, what they do not
know about the complexity of management. International Learning Journeys at this stage will motivate them and set a solid
context for their future studies in your program.
• Towards the middle of your program: by providing your students a real-world overseas analytical experience at this juncture,
your students will have the opportunity to reflect about what they have learned to date. Equally important, what areas of study
yet need to be mastered, and the type of work they would like to do after graduation (by region, industry, stage of development,
social purpose, etc.)
• Towards the end of your program, as a CAPSTONE learning experience: by finding solutions to complex issues in their
international analytical project, your students will build upon their program studies by adapting and applying the theory already
learned to the opportunities and challenges of their chosen company, industry or business sector.
The targeted location of the International Learning Journeys
FDC offers a vast array of location possibilities through its own infrastructure and through its global partnerships with other
business schools.
• Within Brazil, FDC has four campuses. The primary campus outside of Belo Horizonte; and downtown campuses in Belo
Horizonte, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro;
• Around Latin America. FDC has strategic alliances and working partnerships with business schools in Argentina, Chile, Peru,
Columbia, Venezuela, and Mexico;
• Around the world. FDC partnerships extend to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
In sum, while most International Learning Journeys take place in Brazil, we can readily accommodate to other country and
regional preferences.
International Learning Journeys pre and post-overseas classroom experiences
You have the choice of including the option of a pre-trip and/or post-trip experience to your program, to take place in your home
campus.
• Pre-trip: to build foundational knowledge about the history, politics, economy and culture of the country they will be visiting, in
addition to forming work teams and selecting analytical research topics for investigation;
• Post-trip: to give your students an opportunity to share with one another what they learned in their analytical project and from
the international experience overall.
World renowned and accredited universities have already taken part in the International Learning Journeys:
• Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
• ISB – Indian School of Business
• SKOLKOVO – Moscow School of Management
• Santa Clara University
• Arizona State University
It was an absolute pleasure to work with FDC and their entire team to launch our maiden global policy
experience program in Brazil. We asked FDC to develop a 10-day learning journeys program centered
around public policy. Our goal was to give our graduate students a taste of how policy happens in the
Brazilian context, mixed with some cultural tourism and fun. I could not have asked for a better result.
The students met with ministers, supreme court officials, sat in lectures with top flight academics on
relevant, cutting edge, and exciting policy topics. The final result was beyond our expectations, and
FDC provided a model for how all international programs should be run. We fully expect to work with
them in the years to come!
Shankar Prasad
Brown University
Leadership in cross-cultural settings is essential for any leader in today’s world. Exposing executive students
to coursework in emerging markets takes global leadership to the next level; it creates a platform for the
exchange of ideas across cultures and gives them the opportunity to hear from local business leaders
about their challenges and successes in a quickly-changing economic environment. FDC’s Learning Journey
program met our strategic objectives in focusing in depth on a specific emerging market country and
creating an immersive, collaborative, and experiential learning opportunity for executives.
Jennifer Gerrard
Director, Executive MBA Global Network
Kellogg School of Management | Northwestern University
Duration of the overseas experience
While the overseas component of the International Learning Journeys typically lasts from 5-10 days, the program duration can
be determined as needed to accomplish your goals.
The Language
International Learning Journeys can be delivered anywhere in the World in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Our hosts at FDC provided a thorough academic and cultural program that introduced us to the
Brazilian market, while the research project gave us a platform to get out of the classroom and meet
with Brazilian executives and explore real issues and opportunities. The connection to FDC creates a
strong new partner for Schulich in Latin America and I´m excited about developing that connection
as an alumni.
Jeff Forest
Kellogg-Schulich EMBA Student
Schulich School of Business | York University