Fundação Dom Cabral

Fundação Dom Cabral
Fundação Dom Cabral
Location
	EQUIS
Website	http://www.fdc.org.br/

Established in 1976, Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) is a Brazilian business school.^[1] FDC, a nonprofit institution,^[2] was created out of the Extension Center at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Approximately 40,000 executives from midsize to large companies attend FDC programs every year – in the cities of Nova Lima, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

FDC has strategic alliances with foreign teaching institutions such as INSEAD and Skema Business School in France and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the U.S. FDC also has cooperative partnerships with schools in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, China, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.^[4]

Timeline

1976 - Fundação Dom Cabral was founded.
1989 – Creation of the first partnership program: CTE – Executive Technology Center
1990 – Alliance with

Sauder School of Business (Canada) to develop programs for high potential managers and programs on specific subjects including a program in China
2004 – Fundação Dom Cabral joined the UN Global Compact, pledging to insert its principles into the institution’s decisions and to collaborate in spreading business practices expressing the values of sustainable development.
2005 - Accreditation of the MBA programs by AMBA (Association of MBAs).
2007 - Received the EQUIS (EFMD) accreditation.^[5]
2012 - Signed a partnership with^[6] Hult International Business School

to become the host of their global campus rotation program.

2015 - Signed a partnership with

Grande École

program