Brazil needs to invest in the capacity to transform natural resources into innovation, productivity, and development. Talking about energy is talking about development. Behind industry, transportation, services, cities, and increasingly artificial intelligence, there is an energy infrastructure that sustains the economy. Understanding a country’s energy matrix is understanding […]

What corporate crises and mistakes made in the Enron, FTX, and Americanas cases can teach us A company can have a board of directors, independent audit, audit committee, code of conduct, compliance policies, and dozens of control mechanisms, and still walk towards collapse. The nagging question is: if all these […]

Once considered the sole measure of corporate success, financial statements are losing prominence, and sustainability is assuming strategic importance. The corporate world is undergoing an unprecedented transformation in how it communicates its value to society. If previously a company’s success was measured almost exclusively by financial statements, today sustainability has taken strategic prominence. […]

Brazil has the most valuable asset, nature, but still needs to consolidate governance to lead sustainably. There is a topic that has ceased to be a technical agenda to occupy the center of strategic decisions of governments and companies: the carbon market. And, as we have already seen in other ESG agendas, the discomfort here also […]

Norms pressure companies to reduce the gap between discourse and reality, under the logic of financial risk For more than a decade, corporate sustainability in Brazil has been built mostly on voluntary bases. Reports, public commitments, adherence to global pacts, and well-crafted narratives have allowed companies to occupy a symbolic space without necessarily internalizing the […]

Innovation and execution need to stop being antagonists and become complementary. The debate on innovation usually follows a predictable path in Brazil: we talk about digital transformation, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and disruptive business models. However, the novelty lies not only in the technologies themselves but also in how they connect to […]