Ricardo Acto is VP of Operations at Rock in Rio and a former student of the Applied Project Management intensive course at Nova SBE Executive Education. On a guided tour of the City of Rock, he explained to us, in the first person, the importance of the programme in his career path as a professional. Watch the video.

Apart from strengthening and updating knowledge and skills and the legal obligation that training per se represents for companies, there are some less obvious reasons for investing in training.

Nova SBE Professor, Luís Filipe Lages, has won the 2018 American Marketing Association Research in Excellence Award, after studying more than 500 exporting companies in Portugal.

Between July and August, Nova SBE and the Portuguese Football Federation take the field, in the Football City, to hold the first Summer School - Football is much more than 90 minutes.

Constantly evolving technology and increasingly demanding labour markets are shortening the lifespan of the skills we acquire. As companies scramble for talent to fill key positions, workers question: will I be able to stay relevant in the age of automation? With this question in mind, LinkedIn conducted a market study to get a holistic view of the current challenges of talent development in organisations.