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SABF 2023: A Matter of Trust

24 penguins stood behind the SABF three-feet cardboard letters, shirts all starched, to take the year’s inaugural picture. Once again, the SABF launched a new edition of the conference that saw thousands

  • Gastón Rizzo
    Gastón Rizzo
5 min read

A Story on Horses, Medieval Croatians, and the Fall of Tenochtitlan

Rodrigo Varela (SABF 2017 & 2019 participant) and Gastón Rizzo (SABF 2020 organizer) write a detailed study about individualism and collaboration in the face of a global crisis.

  • Gastón Rizzo
    Gastón Rizzo
8 min read

Taking care of your mental health in quarantine

Lucas Seimandi, a SABF ex-participant writes about how we can try to keep our mental health in check during quarantine.

  • SABF Blog Admin
    SABF Blog Admin
3 min read

Coronavirus: the cure to selfish behavior

What do you think would be the main topic every news channel talked about if it wasn’t for Coronavirus? Have you stopped to think about that lately? I haven’t. I have

  • Bianca Ritorto
    Bianca Ritorto
4 min read

SABF 2020: Navigating Through Uncertainty

The directors saw something in you that told them you were unique, and all we ask of you is that you pour that essence into the SABF, and we promise you that you

  • Bianca Ritorto
    Bianca Ritorto
3 min read
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#SABF2019 - Day 3, the final day is here!

And just like that, we again reached the end of another edition of the SABF! The morning started really strong with the SABF Spaces, where participants could choose between practicing origami, sharing a

  • Guillermina Bond
    Guillermina Bond
4 min read
SABF 2019

#SABF2019 - Day 2

Yesterday, Friday July 26th, the second day of the fifteenth edition of the South American Business Forum started full of energy. During this day the participants can attend various workshops and activities based

  • Guillermina Bond
    Guillermina Bond
6 min read
SABF 2019

#SABF2019 - First Day!

Today the fifteenth edition of the SABF started with a day full of new ideas, inconvenient perspectives and awesome people to meet. Without further ado, let's debrief and review what happened on Thursday

  • Guillermina Bond
    Guillermina Bond
7 min read
English

#SABFCorner: Félix Peña

If we are talking about international politics, economy, and commerce, especially in Latin America, one of the biggest experts on the subject, both in theory and in practice, is Félix Peña, a great SABF friend. From the Blog Team, we got in touch with him and his team to have a conversation...

  • Jonatán Carné
    Jonatán Carné
7 min read
English

5 Israel-Palestine videos to change your perspective on the war

Inspired by the power of visual narrative and videos to increase understanding and develop emotional connections that facilitate knowledge in complex human issues, here are my 5 videos suggestions to better understand the Israel - Palestine conflict...

  • Guillermina Bond
    Guillermina Bond
3 min read
English

Deconstruct Corruption

A concept we think we all understand and interpret equally, that appears in our thoughts, but normally observed in other people's behaviour. Do we really think about it? Do we understand what’s

  • Santiago Maiztegui
    Santiago Maiztegui
3 min read
SABF 2019

3 must-read books for 2019

Are you an avid book reader but you don’t like reading non-fiction? Here are some fictional books related to this year’s topics.

  • Bianca Ritorto
    Bianca Ritorto
5 min read
SABF News

New edition, new SABF Blog

New year is always a great moment to reflect and look back on what you have built. Since we first launched the SABF Blog in 2008, we have published more than 500 posts with more than 2000 comments received and 11 SABF editions in between. But is also a great moment to launch forward.

  • Guillermina Bond
    Guillermina Bond
1 min read
English

Design Thinking and the Future of Work

Last Friday, May 11, the SABF had its first talk session in 2018. The organizers of Impacto Digital* gave a workshop on the use of Design Thinking, where attendees were able to test

  • Dora Racca
1 min read
English

My Starting Point

Post from María Florencia Kraus, SABF Ambassador 2018. I find myself once again in front of a computer writing about topics I am passionate about. This time, I am honored to tell all

  • Dora Racca
3 min read
English

Launch of SABF 2018

The 14th South American Business Forum edition is coming! With applications already open, students from all over the world can begin to complete their profile and write their essays. To celebrate we remember

  • Dora Racca
3 min read
English

#SABFCorner: Dalia Mogahed

“Muslims are not only victimized by ISIS, but at the same time blamed for ISIS.” Dalia Mogahed – TED. In SABF 2016 Dalia Mogahed gave the participants and all the listeners a reading of

  • Jonatán Carné
    Jonatán Carné
6 min read
English

#SABF2017 - Day 3

SABF Games 100 participants, 10 teams. Each one of them was lead by a member of the organizing team, but only one was crowned winner. The SABF Games put to the test some

  • Alejandro Vago
3 min read
English

#SABF2017 - Day 2

To begin the second day on a high note, the students went to the **Student Lectures. **Six students were selected in order to delve into their essays with the rest of the participants.

  • Jonatán Carné
    Jonatán Carné
6 min read
English

#SABF2017 - Day 1

SABF 2017; Day 1; In case you blinked, here’s everything that went down. Challenging our Identity To kick off this year’s opening segment, Eric Vilain invites us to consider the different

  • Alejandro Vago
4 min read
English

What are SABFers up to 13 years after the first edition?

*By Gisela de la Villa and Catalina Gálvez After 3 days of having been sharing group activities, workshops, inspiring talks, dinners, and events alongside 99 other people, you may wonder if the connections

  • Ana Paula Valacco
4 min read
English

Youth 20 Dialogue in Berlin

Some minutes with Julia Amerikaner, one of the argentine delegates. The Youth 20 Dialogue is the official G20 forum for young people.  As the SABF, it’s objective is to gather young professionals

  • Blog Teammember
6 min read
English

North Korea: the last frontier

In today’s world, where borders seem to have surrendered to the phenomenon of globalization and communism disappeared with the opening of Cuba and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s,

  • Emiliano Dominguez
5 min read
English

The day that politics became part of consumer goods

Are the political party, the electoral platform, the electoral promises, the government objectives and / or the candidate’s experience and training important? Do we consider some of these variables when we have to

  • Jonatán Carné
    Jonatán Carné
3 min read
English

Chechnya: Rethinking the bonds that bind us

Leaving aside the need for subtitles in order to understand Russian, there is nothing keeping us from instantly empathizing with the words of Vyacheslav: one of the victims of the decadent state of

  • Roberto Chá
    Roberto Chá
3 min read
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