Bøker av Eduardo Machado

No final do século passado, estávamos em uma encruzilhada em relação ao nosso futuro econômico e a uma mentalidade da gestão dos recursos estratégicos das organizações. Esse conteúdo, inteiramente revisado, chama novamente a atenção pela sua atualidade e necessidade, quando observamos a entrada dos Tigres Asiáticos no cenário competitivo mundial, sobretudo a China. Com reflexos nas atuais estratégias empresariais, convido a todos a uma leitura que remete a um reconhecimento de uma necessidade da época que hoje é uma realidade organizacional: A sustentabilidade.

Esta pesquisa descritiva qualitativa, em formato estudo de caso, de uma central de negócios do setor de varejo supermercadista que atua na região centro oeste de Minas Gerais, com sede em Divinópolis MG, tem como objetivo explorar e descrever a sua formação e desempenho. Apresenta também, duas de suas associadas que desenvolvem suas atividades numa mesma cidade e mercado. Suas estratégias funcionais, suas características e porte, são analisados sob orientação de teorias e autores que dissertam sobre estratégia empresarial. Como resultado tem-se uma avaliação sobre elementos que descrevem as diferenças existentes entre ambas e uma análise sobre os pontos em comum que as alinha como associadas da central pesquisada.

Characters: 3 male, 1 female Multiple Sets In Havana Journal, Ruth, a disillusioned writer and radical, leaves the halls of American academia to travel to Cuba. She hopes to find people there who share her beliefs and validate her struggle. It's not until her return to Columbia University that she is confronted by the realities of sacrifice and idealism. "The writing is smart and funny." - The New Yorker "The Castro era in Cuba may be in its endgame, but, as Mr. Machado suggests, it remains relevant to the assaults of a new century." - The New York Times "Machado's ability to combine seriousness of purpose with humor in crisp dialogue is admirable" - Back Stage

Drama Charcters: 2 male, 3 female Interior Set As Fidel Castro storms Habana, a wealthy Batistlano is forced to flee to America with her husband and unborn child. Adria begs her cook, a proud and loyal woman who values her mistress's friendship, to promise she will protect the mansion from the communist upheaval. Over the next forty years Gladys keeps this promise, despite tremendous emotional and physical loss. When Adria's daughter vacations in Cuba and comes to

Forced to flee to the United States after Castro's revolution, a Cuban family tries to cope with their new life.

Full Length Play / 6m., 4f. / Unit Set / Dark Comedy In the Eye of the Hurricane is Machado's fourth play based on the tribulations of his family in Cuba. It is 1960 in a small Cuban town. A family gathers for a sumptuous, leisurely lunch of shrimp and avocado only to find Fidel Castro is nationalizing the family bus company: the business in which the entire family has invested all of its energies and all of its resources. The business is the symbol of the family and everything they want: money and a lot of it. Machado describes In the Eye of the Hurricane as a play about "the moment.It's about when their lives were really in crisis. It's not about recalling. It's not about getting there. It's about the moment when you lose everything." Appeared at the Humana Festival of New American plays at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville.

Full Length Play / 6m., 4f. / Unit Set / Dark Comedy In the Eye of the Hurricane is Machado's fourth play based on the tribulations of his family in Cuba. It is 1960 in a small Cuban town. A family gathers for a sumptuous, leisurely lunch of shrimp and avocado only to find Fidel Castro is nationalizing the family bus company: the business in which the entire family has invested all of its energies and all of its resources. The business is the symbol of the family and everything they want: money and a lot of it. Machado describes In the Eye of the Hurricane as a play about "the moment.It's about when their lives were really in crisis. It's not about recalling. It's not about getting there. It's about the moment when you lose everything." Appeared at the Humana Festival of New American plays at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville.