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March 25th, 2009: Latin American Burkenroad Workshop, Tulane University, New Orleans - United States

Last March 25th, 2009, representatives from business schools all over the continent participated in the Annual BRLA Workshop. The workshop opened the activities of the Latin American Research Consortium (LARC) 2009 Annual Meeting. This year, the Workshop was enriched with the active participation of the following professors,

• Helmuth Chavez, UFM - Ciudad de Guatemala / Guatemala
• Julián Benavides, Universidad ICESI - Cali / Colombia
• Bernardo Bernardi, Universidad del Norte - Barranquilla / Colombia
• Virgina Lazio, ESPAE-ESPOL - Guayaquil / Ecuador
• Alexandra Portalanza, ESPAE-ESPOL - Guayaquil / Ecuador
• Eduardo Court, CENTRUM-Catolica - Lima / Peru
• Carlos Steiger, Universidad de Belgrano - Buenos Aires / Argentina
• Marcelo Davos, Universidad de Belgrano - Buenos Aires / Argentina
• Pamela Shaw, Tulane University - New Orleans / United States
• Eduardo Pablo, Tulane University and IESA - Caracas / Venezuela

The objective of this year's workshop was to coordinate efforts to increase the number of reports associated to public companies in Latin America. Also, some methodological issues associated to valuing and forecasting in high-uncertainty environments were presented. Participants missed the always-important contribution of other participating schools from Mexico (ITESM Monterrey and ITESM Guadalajara) and Colombia (Universidad de los Andes).