Miguel Pinha e Cunha (International MBA 2020) and Luís Almeida Costa (Executive MBA 2018/2020) won the Best Professor Award in the scope of the Lisbon MBA Católica | Nova. Best Professor award is a distinction based on the vote of students.

"Can FM radio mitigate violent conflict?" This study conducted by Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, and Joseph Flavian Gomes, published in the American Economic Review, examines the role of FM radio in mitigating violent conflict and was highlighted in our latest research video. 

Nova SBE congratulates João Pereira dos Santos on successfully defending his doctoral thesis entitled “Measuring causal impacts with natural and field experiments: Evidence for firms, workers, consumers, and voters”, which had José Tavares as supervisor.

The Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center is developing a new project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, entitled Countering Islamic Radicalization in Northern Mozambique: Radio Campaigning and Adolescent Sensitization in Religious Schools. It is conducted by Pedro Vicente, Alex Armand, Flavio Cunha, and Inês Vilela.

Nova SBE welcomes Rui Silva and Nicholas Hirschey that joined Nova SBE as Assistant Professors in Finance. Rui Silva research interests cover Labor and Finance, Organizational Economics, Empirical and Theoretical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurial Finance. He will be teaching the Applied Corporate Finance Master's course. Nicholas Hirschey teaches our Master’s students Data Analytics for Finance. His research interests include Asset Pricing, Microstructure, and International Finance.

Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory series is the latest book by Miguel Pina e Cunha, co-authored with Marco Berti (UTS Business School), Ace Simpson (Brunel Business School) and Stewart R. Clegg (University of Stavanger Business School and Nova SBE). It will be released in July 2021 and comprises a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance through the literature on paradox, giving space for new interpretations and applications of the concept.

Daniel Traça made an assessment of what has been done and what remains to be done for the national economy to converge with the European one in the webinar “Structural Funds: the context, results and challenges of the next cycle”. The event was organized by the European Commission Representation in Portugal, in partnership with the Agency for Development and Cohesion (AD&C).

Francesco Franco participated in the panel on “Banking, NPLs and the post-pandemic” at the 4th edition of Advocatus Summit Lisbon, an event that links business law to business and economic agents. Francesco Franco spoke about the expected increase in the NPL, but he said that what matters is how much this increase will be and when it will happen.

The “Economia de Francisco” arrived to Algarve. The session included a presentation and debate on this initiative that was born out of a letter addressed to young people by Pope Francis, challenging them to participate in an event with the purpose of thinking on a “different economy”. The online session counted with the participation of Joana Castro e Costa, Executive Director from Nova SBE Leadership for Impact and Ricardo Zózimo.

The IV Paradox & Plurality Meeting took place to discuss the paradoxes of stability/change that permeate the changing nature of work. The Paradox & Plurality Meeting is an annual event organized by the Amélia de Mello Foundation and the Center of Paradox and Organization, under the the Twinning project EUFORPP, to discuss organizational and societal problems from a paradox perspective. Miguel Pina e Cunha and Anibal Lopez were on the organization committee.

Susana Peralta e Catarina Neves (MSc Alumna e TA) participated in the webinar “Unconditional Basic Income (UBI): Can we afford it?” The event started with a discussion on the paper by Karl Widerquist and Georg Arndt: “The Cost of Basic Income in the United Kingdom: A Microsimulation Analysis” (2021). It was followed by a brief presentation of how this paper´s presented model could be adapted to the Portuguese context, a roundtable discussion on how much could a UBI cost in Portugal and how could it be financed. The video of the event is available on our Role to Play Platform.

Joao Amador participated in the round table of the conference “Specialization and diversification of the Portuguese economy: what perspectives in post-covid?”, organized by the Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas e Empresariais (NIPE) from Universidade do Minho and the Conselho das Finanças Públicas (CFP). This initiative opened the CFP's 2021 conference cycle, which has the partnership of a national higher education institution at each session.

Pedro Brinca presented “Pandemonics: How COVID-19 defined 2020 and what we have ahead of us”, at the Associação Portuguesa de Leasing, Factoring e Renting (ALF) annual conference. The conference was subordinated to the theme “Leasing, Factoring and Renting – Recovery of the Portuguese Economy.”

BPI and Nova Finance Knowledge Center are organizing a conference on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring. The event will be held on October 8^th at Nova SBE and the main objective is to discuss recent advances in academic research on bankruptcy-related topics. There will also be a Panel discussion on COVID-19. The conference will host a limited number of papers. The submission deadline is August 1^st, 2021.

Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center and Le Wagon – the coding and bootcamp French school – offer from 10 July to 11 December, an intensive training course in data science. The course covers Python and SQL programming, machine learning, neural networks, facial recognition, data engineering and other artificial intelligence mechanisms in business. During June, the “Data Impact School” features a set of workshops and talks in the field of data science.

Role to Play interviewed our PhD Student Fahiz Baba-Yara to find out more about his research and PhD experience. Fahiz Baba-Yara started his PhD journey in our doctoral program in Economics and Finance in 2015. His research focuses on finance, specifically on how machine learning models help us making better decisions and how we can improve the forecasting ability of machine learning models. Fahiz is now heading forward to Indiana University as Assistant Professor from next semester.

On July 9 the PhD Summer School "Sovereign Debt Crises and Computational Methods" will host a conference. Nova SBE faculty members and researchers are welcome to attend the conference by registering here. The program is available on here.

Nova SBE launched the Portuguese version of the Elements of AI course for professionals and enthusiasts in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The online course, developed by the University of Helsinki and the company Reaktor, has been made available for free by the Finnish government since 2019. Elements of AI aims to demystify and democratize AI and offer tools to participate in building the future with this technology. Since its launch in Portugal, the course has already enrolled more than 1600  students, thus joining more than 650 thousand people from more than 170 countries.