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Established in 1976, Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) is a world-class Brazilian business school that develops strategic thinking skills of executives, entrepreneurs, and public-sector managers. FDC, a nonprofit institution, was created out of the Extension Center at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Approximately 40,000 executives from midsize and large companies attend FDC programs every year – in the cities of Nova Lima, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

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 United Kingdom.

For the 13th consecutive year, the Financial Times has ranked Fundação Dom Cabral the best business school in Latin America.