The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic caused to the world is huge and its spread is taking way people’s
hope about getting back to “normal life” as well as the world economical recovery. The fear and denial
behave must be be substituted by refreshing perspective of the world, which requires new mind sets to
address inovatives and disruptive solutions. Thinking outside the box, reviewing requirements and
demands are essential to update traditional business practices, rethinking and reshaping business
domains from the scratch. Because of globalization, the lethargy of leaders to address its problems,
postponed essential political changes, have huge repercussions that affected consumer standards,
productive chain, job market and organization financial provision (for good or for bad). And technology
plays an essential role in this scenario. The risks and impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy are
unprecedented in history. Even so the effects are shared by all, the business pressure gain a new
perspective when events like a pandemic hit some industries more than others. This final project allows
you to develop academic research to training your analytic competencies and practicing skills to produce
and to share content, as well as to hearse for the new modalities of recruitment and breafing.
You are applying to the new internship program Future Junior Leadership 2021 from The World Bank, and
you must demonstrate for the Search Committee in your application that you have what is needed to
become the future successful professional and leader:
• Be able to become a problem solver by quickly improving your tacit knowledge, practicing critical
thinking, providing good insights to design and to deliver effective solutions, and guidance for
essential process/procedures improvements or planning investiments;
• Demonstrate you can apply the best practices and use technological resources available to
support the organization daily activities;
• Have the skills to adapt yourself and improve your inner competences to deal with the new
challenges regarding connectivity/interactivity demands, especially taking the responsibility for
good/bad decisions practicing resiliense;
• Become accustomed to practice autonomy and leadership, in balanced way, recognizing and
taking advantage of being innovative and disruptive, without diverting from the project’s goals
and strategic directions;
• Be ready to deliver objective, assertive and efficient outcomes, proving your best management
insights about key business demands and problems solutions.
In this final project, you will develop a draft for a research paper about two topics yo