Organization |
Industry |
Project |
Camp Mangueira |
Nonprofit |
Camp Mangueira is a non-profit social program created in 1989. Their goal is to provide underprivileged youth with the skills and opportunity to enter the labor market. A team of students analyzed ways in which the placement of the graduates can be improved, specifically in the area of marketing and in an effort to attain the financial growth necessary to further develop CAMP's program size. |
Hospital Pro-Cardiaco |
Healthcare |
Examined the processes and practices involved in the hospital and determined the strengths and weaknesses of the program. The analysis of the structure provided an understanding as to why there was a low response rate and helped to ascertain practical suggestions to improve the rate. |
L'Oreal |
Cosmetics |
Identified strategies to increase the sales and brand image of the Kerastase line of products. |
Message Informatica |
IT |
Provided strategies for the firm to grow its business, such as specialization of a particular technology solution and employing long-term marketing actions to benchmark its services against competitors. |
Organic Food Store and Restaurant |
Food and Beverage |
Analyzed the financial and marketing feasibility of launching a health food and organic chain of markets modeled after Whole Foods for Brazil. |
GlaxoSmithKline |
Healthcare |
Proposed cultural organization changes to improve efficiency in their production line. |
INTO |
Healthcare |
Designed an action plan to guide INTO through the implementation of their social responsibility projects. |
Triscal Consulting and Technology |
IT |
Analyzed the feasibility of offering such services in the U.S. market. Provided a comprehensive overview of the U.S. market potential and identified a variety of untapped markets within South America for Triscal. |
Cortex Intelligence |
IT |
Designed a channel marketing strategy to help expand the company's market share. Identified things like the most appropriate sales and channel structure, types of partner companies in the channel, optimal commissioning model, restrictions for the relationships and types of support for the channel. |
Diagnostico da America |
Healthcare |
Investigated new ways to improve the quality of relationships with the doctors who send their lab work to Diagnostico. |
Gaffree e Guinle University Hospital (HUGG) |
Healthcare |
Performed various projects including developing a distance education model that allowed HUGG to train health family groups and healthcare workers in poor communities and designing a new cost effective scheduling system for pharmacists and assistants to balance their workload. |
Golden Cross |
Healthcare |
Provided a solution for the healthcare company to have a higher rate of response on their customer's questionnaire, which served as the basis for the company to assess and evaluate quality of service provided. |
Mecal |
Metallurgy and Steel |
Suggested a strategy to reposition the company in the current marketplace. Investigated the best timing of capital investment projects for the company within the next couple of years. |
Petróleo Brasileiro, S.A. (Petrobras) |
Oil and Gas |
Designed a preliminary plan for improving both the staffing of the call center and the service provided to customers. |
Endesa |
Energy |
Created programs to increase collections from customers accessing electricity by informally tapping into the system or not paying their electricity bill. |
Polimera |
Biotech |
Developed a marketing plan focusing on the medical markets in Brazil and a financial plan for the company in the next five years. |
Enersud |
Renewable Energy |
Created a production strategy and marketing plan for company's new wind turbines product line. |
Fine Image Technology (FIT) |
Medical Device Manufacturer |
Developed a plan to launch the company's product in low-income regions of Brazil and determined potential product demand among hospitals and clinics. |
Grupo Carmo |
Hospital |
Performed a comprehensive analysis of hospital operations and developed a plan to optimize critical care front desk procedures to minimize waiting time, maximize medical staff allocation and improve patient check-in efficiency. |
Grupo Roque |
Cookware Manufacturer |
Produced an actionable internationalization strategy that would enable the company to start selling its products in Angola and meet its goals of diversifying its customer base. |
Saboreata |
Chocolate Manufacturer |
Performed a careful review of this boutique chocolate manufacturer facilities, financial state and marketing plan and recommended a plan of action for expansion. |
Andina Brasil |
Food and Beverage |
Analyzed the financial viability of technology-based voice picking methods and determined if the current Argentina model could be transferred to the Brazil market. One of the major licensors of Andina Brazil is Coca-Cola. |
Orga Systems |
IT |
Performed various projects including establishing a system that ensured consistency, fairness and transparency when assessing employee's individual performance and analyzing the purchasing function activities, their cost reduction areas of opportunity and implementation suggestions. |
World Study |
International Exchange Service |
Developed a process and budget control tools covering broad inventory control operations, spanning areas such as purchasing, logistics, planning, forecasting, marketing and development. |
Empresa Bacana |
Social Services |
Developed a strategy to determine if the company's efforts in legalizing informal businesses in the favelas (shanty towns) of Rio has been effective. |
Medium-Sized Tech Company |
Technology |
Helped develop an innovative strategy to launch a new product. |
SECOVI-Rio |
Real Estate |
Assisted this government-sponsored organization in developing a plan to improve the environmental sustainability of their existing and future commercial housing units. |
Ciabrink |
Educational Toys Manufacturer |
Analyzed the Brazilian toy market and determined opportunities for growth at home as well as in neighboring countries. Identified various Chinese companies that could become potential Ciabrink partners or joint ventures. |
In Press |
Marketing and Communication |
Developed a new evaluation process that is straightforward and applicable to help employees align their efforts with the company's goals and increase efficiency. |
Shell Brazil |
Oil and Gas |
Devised a plan for the creation of "virtual expertise centers in Brazil" to identify areas of expertise available in the Intranet and areas of interest for dissemination within the Shell Brazil Group. |
Roche |
Pharmaceutical |
Identified the real benefits of the new dedicated delivery system, by analyzing customer demand, schedules, costs and service quality of the present provider and selecting strategic customers for the implementation of the proposed system. |
Pinngo |
Social Media Marketing |
Created a marketing strategy to target large corporate customers which resulted in the company needing to focus more on data collection and outsourcing. |
CIN |
Nuclear Technology |
Evaluated existing processes and made specific recommendations for improvement in record-keeping, storage of information and process automation. |
CL Women |
Digital Marketing |
Evaluated existing processes and made specific recommendations for improvement in record-keeping, storage of information and process automation. |
Halliburton |
Oil and Gas |
Located the specific issues that had lowered the company's Great Places to Work (GPTW) rating through five key categories in GPTW surveys. |
Way Design |
Furniture Retailer |
Mapped customer experience by secret shopping at all of Way Design's furniture store locations throughout Rio and made specific recommendations for enhancing the customer experience. On a second project, students performed a complete demographic, geographic and economic evaluation of the Miami, Florida market in order to provide a customer analysis, market analysis and competitor assessment for expansion purposes. |
TR Subsea |
Technology |
Evaluated the current strengths of the company and found that the proprietary simulation technology developed by the company had significant applications to other industries and recommended a name change to reflect the company's change in strategic direction. |
TWIST Press |
Data Science |
Investigated several international markets for expansion and provided pros and cons of each place, finding that expansion into the Canadian market should be seriously considered. |
Vatio Renewable Energies |
Energy |
Advised the company on business model alternatives that address the various strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainties pertaining to the future of solar energy in Brazil due to governmental regulations. |
Descomplica |
Digital Education |
Developed strategies to identify new distribution channels to help Descomplica grow while keeping its prices affordable and expanding access to higher education. |
Incentive.me |
Technology |
Performed a comprehensive value analysis, including a detailed spreadsheet analysis that contained estimates for discounted cash flows, under various assumptions. |
Lemobs |
Technology |
Provided input on product development through a comprehensive business plan (“Canvas”) analysis and conducted a comprehensive analysis of potential “good clients” based on various demographic characteristics. |
PetroRio |
Natural Gas |
Performed a comprehensive industry analysis of fellow European companies to help PetroRio take advantage of the liberalization in the natural gas industry in Brazil. |
Verde Vicio |
Food and Beverage |
Performed an operations analysis on the feasibility and profitability of using new sales channels, conducted a pricing analysis to determine delivery cost, and created a survey to collect customer feedback. |
Hilton Copacabana |
Hospitality |
Created an excel tool and provided reccomendations to help with staffing and productivity in the housekeeping and food-and-beverage departments. On a second project, students recommended strategic changes in internal communication to improve Hilton Copacabana’s key guest satisfaction (SALT) score. |
Suade Crianca |
Non-Profit |
Integrated Saúde Criança's workflow along with several software systems in all operational areas to improve workforce efficiency and eliminate human errors. |
L’Oreal |
Cosmetics |
Conducted research to better understand consumer behavior in two permanent hair color market segments that were experiencing a substancial decline. Recommended changes for the retail environments in which L'Oréal products are sold to reduce this decline. |
Green People |
TechFood |
Proposed a new, more sustainable waste management system along with other waste reuse processes enabling possible partnerships, benchmarks and business solutions. |
TAG |
Oil & Gas |
Provided analysis and guidance on merging of internal controls and scheduling for capital expenditures for the largest natural gas transport company in Brazil, which had recently been acquired by French company, ENGIE. |
Club Med |
Tourism |
Provided a marketing strategy for Club Med's São Paulo property, including ways to increase repeat traffic to the location, while maintaining the distinctive brand. |
L’Oreal |
Cosmetics |
Advised the CMI R&I team on developing business intelligence, gaining organizational visibility and increasing its influence across the company. |
Saude Criança |
NGO |
Developed a business plan for Saude Crianças's new Knowledge Hub, focusing on ways to increase its visibility, position and influence in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about holistic healthcare delivery in the developing world. |