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Pedro Pita Barros and Eduardo Costa, from the Nova SBE Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center, presented the 2022 Report on Human Resources for Health. This study deduced that about 25% of doctors are over 65 years old and 5,000 will retire by 2030. The conclusions of the report were mentioned in Público, Diário de Notícias, Observador, Visão, SIC Notícias, CNN Portugal, and RTP, among others. In the scope of this report, Eduardo Costa was interviewed by Saúde+.

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Rodrigo Tavares had his whitepaper on Sustainability in the Tourism sector mentioned in Jornal Económico, TNews, and Ambitur, amongst other media. The document points out 17 recommendations for the Tourism sector in Portugal resulting from a reflection promoted by the Nova SBE Westmont Institute of Tourism & Hospitality with several stakeholders to identify instruments and practical solutions to face the challenges of sustainability in Portuguese tourism. He was also interviewed by Poder Local magazine on how the municipalities have a word to say about the sustainability of the companies that invest in their councils.

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Miguel Ferreira was the guest on the latest episode of the podcast No Final de contas, where he spoke about the Finanças para Todos program and also about the challenges that families currently face due to the economic context. He defended that "in the long term, and in a sustainable way, the best strategy is to have a national financial literacy plan similar to the actual national reading plan". The program was also the subject of a TV report by Contas Poupança (SIC).

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The study “Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism and Hospitality: Evidence from Airbnb”, coordinated by Qiwei Han, from the Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, was mentioned in media such as Executive Digest, TNews, and Dinheiro Vivo. The study concludes that, due to the pandemic, local accommodation in Portugal lost around 2,700 reservations a day in the summer of 2020, but has already recovered from pre-covid levels.

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Nova SBE, through Haddad Entrepreneurship Institute, is among the ten founding schools of the European Scaleup Institute (ESI), a platform of academic experts and practitioners in Europe for scaleups, high-growth firms, governmental organizations and policymakers to address the scaleup gap. The first meeting of the Institute will be held on June 1-2, at the Nova SBE, and will gather researchers and academic professionals to analyze and share knowledge about the scaleup ecosystem in the world. The event was mentioned in several media such as Jornal Económico, Forbes Portugal, and Executive Digest.

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Jenny Hoobler spoke to Forbes Portugal and Executive about gender inequality in leadership positions, in the context of “We Can Do Better”, an initiative hosted by Nova SBE to mark International Women’s Day. Hoobler remarked that “only one in four managers worldwide are women”. The event was also mentioned in Expresso.

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José Tavares’ essay “Estado Social: Modo de Usar” was published in Revista E (Expresso). In this essay, he approaches the state of the Public School System in Portugal, and the consequences of its problems, concluding that “if the Portuguese democracy does not rescue and save the public school, it will hardly be able to rescue itself.”

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Miguel Pina e Cunha was interviewed by Expresso about how the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk was a novelty. He pointed out that “until that time, Musk distinguished himself by generating new projects, rather than buying projects that were already operational.”

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Daniel Traça was invited to É ou Não É? (RTP program) to talk about the crises in the banking sector and its the risks in the near future. He stated that “safeguarding the security of banks is crucial and regulation plays a key role in these cases [Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank]." He also added that “a scenario like the 2008 global crisis is not likely to happen”.

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Francesco Franco commented on the productivity increase in Portugal in 2022, in an interview with Jornal de Negócios. Although productivity has reached historic highs in the last year, he stated that “it is premature to say whether that is a trend in the medium and long term”.

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In the context of International Women’s Day, Susana Peralta and Anne-Laure Fayard were interviewed by Líder Magazine about the challenges for women in science. The researchers talked about the lack of women representation in top positions and approached possible ways to reduce these inequalities, reinforcing the importance of role models in this area.

Susana Peralta was on RTP 360 to comment on TAP's positive results in the last year. The professor highlighted “a quick post-pandemic recovery” but complemented by saying that these profits still represent a tenuous growth. Peralta was also mentioned by Jornal de Negócios in an article about the companies’ profit margins as the most important factor for inflation. She also continues to have a regular presence at Fora do Baralho (Rádio Observador).

In an article published on Sábado, Luciano Amaral talked about price control by the State during the 70s in Portugal. He said that “much of the price-fixing culture already came from Estado Novo, where intervention in prices was almost general”.

Pedro Freitas was on SIC Notícias to comment on the teachers' manifestations and the structural problems of public schooling in Portugal. The researcher alerted for “a predictable shortage of teachers in the upcoming years” and for the “need for long-term solutions”, considering that the current situation “damages the students' future and needs to be resolved quickly”.

Pedro Martins talked to Expresso about the collective layoffs rise. The professor defined the increase in unemployment as predictable, stating that the war on Ukraine and the high inflation are “barriers to the operation of companies and, therefore, to their dynamics.”

Pedro Neves was quoted in an article published in Visão about negative behavior in the workplace and the concept of “affective presence”. The professor pointed out that “affective presence depends on personal charisma, the eye of the beholder, and the way one feels” and emphasizes that success depends on what is valued, at each moment, in the work environment.

Pedro Brinca was interviewed about the zero VAT on selected food items as a measure to fight inflation in Rádio Renascença, Expresso, CNN,  SIC Notícias, RTP3, ECO e TVI, among others. Regarding the budget execution, the inflation numbers, and the redesign of the fiscal rules in 2024 he gave interviews to several media, such as SIC Notícias, Jornal Económico, and Expresso. Regarding the bank sector crises, he spoke to Antena 1, RTP3, Jornal Económico, SIC Notícias, and TVI. The Housing sector was commented by him in CNN, SIC Notícias, and Expresso. He also analyzed the seven years of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa's Presidency to ECO and the appointment of Luís Rodrigues as the new CEO of TAP, also to ECO.

The sixth edition of the Social Leadership for Managers - executive program of the Social Equity Initiative - will take place in Porto, in a partnership project between Nova SBE and Católica Porto Business School. This year, the event will be held from September 26 to October 13 and was mentioned in Executive Digest.

Digital servitization is the trend of recent years and can contribute to regaining the competitiveness of European companies in markets that produce on a large scale and at low prices. The conclusions are from the study Treble innovation firms: Antecedents, outcomes, and enhancing factors, carried out by Emanuel Gomes, among other authors, cited in Dinheiro Vivo