BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

By Bárbara Parode, Felipe Petry and Júlia Chaves

 

When we talk about economy and business we cover different kinds of undergraduate programs such as Economy itself, Administration and Production Engineering.

 If you are interested in learning how to lead and manage a company financially then Economy is the right course for you. The course will not only teach you how to manage and expand companies but also how to product and distribute, worldwide, all things that are essential to men, such as food, clothing and any commercial goods. Once you are an economist (a professional) you´ll be able to distinguish a good financial resource from a bad one, behold any budgetary restrictions with a different “look”, use numbers to project how much a company will grow in a certain amount of years and (the best of all) work in the stock market.

 

   The Administration course forms professionals that can act in different functioning of enterprises areas: financial administration, marketing and human resources. They all verge to the same idea: strategy and logistics of a company. The good performance of an administrator, for example, results in profit maximization for the company, but there are also non-profit organizations.

   When studying Production Engineering you immerse along in the other two courses. This Engineering is responsible for the management of human resources, financial resources, gather and distribution of factory materials. A production engineer must have a dynamic spirit, like to study, be compromised, be a good team mate, be communicative and behave well. Always focused in enhancing and increasing productivity, a production engineer is, nowadays, essential to all workforces and industries, being the bond between the technical and administrative sector. 

   One of world´s best Economy courses is in MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The University is located in Massachusetts, USA. Brazil´s top Economy university is the Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP), Fundação Getúlio Vargas, located in São Paulo.
 

 

    Eleanor Ostrom was the first women to ever receive the Economy Nobel Prize in 2009, when she was 78 years old. Her work pointed that natural goods can be successfully managed by ordinary people, with no need for governmental intervention, regulations or privatization. It analyzes people´s control over common property such as air, water and public spaces. Her work challenges the “Common Tragedy” theory, in which the environment would be destroyed due to incorporations that only worry about the monetary value of things and have no concern at all for the impact it causes in public spaces.