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Dayane de Santi, OMLP, speaks about the different challenges she faced joining this leadership program and her experiences dealing with distinct responsibilities and projects.

John Ingham, Energy Senior Product Manager, explains about the innovative project that GE had in partnership with Brazilian multinational, Petrobras, which generates fuel from ethanol and the development of resources locally to support the project.

With the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2011 in Rio in full swing, GE Reports took a closer look at how innovation is working on the ground in Brazil. GE’s Celma facility, located in Petrópolis, Brazil (a small town near Rio de Janeiro) provides engine services to aircraft customers in Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. But the plant has also been hosting a quiet revolution in innovative management and leadership. Here are the three ways they’re accomplishing this goal.

GE Brazil is amongst the 30 best companies to start your in, according to the “Voce S/A Melhores Empresas para Começar a Carreira 2011.” The ranking was released yesterday at an event held by the Editora Abril in São Paulo.

Brazil and GE are far from strangers: the company opened its first Brazil plant around 90 years ago. Since then, GE has focused on growing its business – and its expansion will culminate in a new Global Research Center, set to open in 2013 in Rio De Janeiro. GE Reports spoke with João Geraldo Ferreira, President and CEO of GE in Brazil, about the new GRC, the practice of “reverse innovation,” and Brazil’s unique place on the economic stage.