The IEE
In 1984, a group of 25 young entrepreneurs realized that the business and Brazil of the past would only be the business and Brazil of the future if they were prepared for an interconnected and open world based on solid principles. Besieged by its second dictatorship in less than a hundred years, Brazil floundered in the midst of a lost decade. The deleterious combination of authoritarianism, patrimonialism and populism left their marks in the form of persistent poverty and institutional extractivism that always benefits interest groups positioned to use the State to extract income from citizens. Research abroad on the perverse effects of bad institutions on the generation of prosperity has already made it clear that without good rules of the game there is no business environment that allows the growth of people and companies.
But institutional changes that promote freedom, innovation and creativity need leaders who understand, support and promote them. Without the formation of good leaders, as well as good entrepreneurs, changes will never happen.
With difficulties in finding, in Brazil, an institution to train leaders aligned with principles that promote prosperity, as well as aligned with state-of-the-art content from the best universities, those 25 young people decided to create a center for their mutual improvement as entrepreneurs. and also for the exercise of leadership.
On December 13, 1984, the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (IEE) was born, in the city of Porto Alegre, a non-profit institution or non-profit organization committed to political parties, to encourage and prepare new leaders based on the principles of freedom, individual responsibility, respect to private property and the rule of law.
Over its more than 35 years, the IEE has constituted a network that has more than 230 active members, and has also inspired the creation of similar organizations around the country such as the Institutos de Formação de Líderes (IFLs) and the Instituto Líderes do Amanhã. . To this network are added more than 30 investors who believe in our purpose, helping to maintain the institute exclusively with private resources, and composing a group that employs more than 162 thousand people inside and outside Brazil through its ventures.
In 1984, a group of 25 young entrepreneurs realized that the business and Brazil of the past would only be the business and Brazil of the future if they were prepared for an interconnected and open world based on solid principles. Besieged by its second dictatorship in less than a hundred years, Brazil floundered in the midst of a lost decade. The deleterious combination of authoritarianism, patrimonialism and populism left their marks in the form of persistent poverty and institutional extractivism that always benefits interest groups positioned to use the State to extract income from citizens. Research abroad on the perverse effects of bad institutions on the generation of prosperity has already made it clear that without good rules of the game there is no business environment that allows the growth of people and companies.
But institutional changes that promote freedom, innovation and creativity need leaders who understand, support and promote them. Without the formation of good leaders, as well as good entrepreneurs, changes will never happen.
With difficulties in finding, in Brazil, an institution to train leaders aligned with principles that promote prosperity, as well as aligned with state-of-the-art content from the best universities, those 25 young people decided to create a center for their mutual improvement as entrepreneurs. and also for the exercise of leadership.
On December 13, 1984, the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (IEE) was born, in the city of Porto Alegre, a non-profit institution or non-profit organization committed to political parties, to encourage and prepare new leaders based on the principles of freedom, individual responsibility, respect to private property and the rule of law.
Over its more than 35 years, the IEE has constituted a network that has more than 230 active members, and has also inspired the creation of similar organizations around the country such as the Institutos de Formação de Líderes (IFLs) and the Instituto Líderes do Amanhã. . To this network are added more than 30 investors who believe in our purpose, helping to maintain the institute exclusively with private resources, and composing a group that employs more than 162 thousand people inside and outside Brazil through its ventures.
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