Quasi-hereditary algebras and the category of modules with standard filtration

Author's accepted version (post-print). This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40863-016-0046-4. This paper is a survey on some of the most basic results in the theory of quasi-hereditary algebras. In the last section we briefly discuss a recent development.