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Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

AI must not only cut costs. It must create revenues

After a 2025 marked by continuous increases in the prices of stocks most exposed to Artificial Intelligence – an enthusiasm that also lifted the valuation of less exposed companies – 2026 began in a very different way. Within a few days, the share prices of firms producing software for services fell by more than 20%, influenced in part by a report from analysts at Citrini Research and by a blog ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Elia Marco

Non-Standard Employment Seeking Representation

The question of representation for non-standard labor has been a subject of debate for a long time among labor sociologists, researchers into industrial relations, and labor lawyers. To understand this in greater detail, we need to examine it within the more general crisis of trade unionism. The last few decades have also seen a change in the employment structure and the professional composition of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

The Long Autumn in Italy’s History

In the 1970s, Italy lived through an unprecedented cycle of labor conflict, that started with the Fiat strike in September 1969, and ended with the “March of 40,000” in Turin in October 1980.#The dynamics of industrial relations in Italy had previously seen moments of particularly strong conflict which had been followed by a retreat of the unions: the occupation of the Red Biennial (1919-1920), ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Pulignano Valeria

The Ambivalence of Industrial Relations

Trade unions in Italy are currently facing certain critical problems that derive from the exhaustion of the previous phase of industrial relations, based on policies of consultation with employers’ associations and public representatives, and the difficulty of sharing a “synthesis” of the transformations underway with the other actors in industrial relations.#In the new scenario of the gig economy, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Magatti Mauro, Cecchinato Fabio

The Profile of a Pioneer in an Era of Transition

CEOs are increasingly called on to face the historic challenge of deconstructing the old structures of the past, to then construct new organizational approaches oriented towards sustainability. In this context, the role of the CEO takes on particular importance because the CEO is the person who can emanate cultural, strategic, and value imprinting, but also operative and managerial imprinting, able ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Gemmo Vanessa, Isari Daniela

Being a Strategy Maker in the Digital Era

In the context of the broad digital transformation currently underway, CEOs must represent the engine of corporate change. In the role of the “strategy maker,” the CEO first of all has the role of defining how artificial intelligence can support strategic decisions at multiple levels, and secondly, to promote and guide the digital transformation. The CEO is also required to renew the strategies ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Cappetta Rossella, Grando Alberto

Marchionne and Lessons in Leadership

In the three speeches he gave to the Bocconi community between 2012 and 2014, Sergio Marchionne spoke of himself as a “transformational leader,” i.e. a person who defines long-term values and inspires people by example to obtain results that go beyond the perimeter of formal contracts. Marchionne’s leadership is described through a long list of duties: to develop “optimism of the will” to ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Castaldo Sandro, Grosso Monica, Villa Danilo

The Compass of Trust for Management

Customer trust is the main driver of the economic performance of a business. This is even more true in digital channels, the have a strong need for trust. To fully grasp the opportunities deriving from new technologies, it is necessary to move towards omnichannel marketing, that places the customer at the center of the business and its channels. This is the way to model the organization, the processes, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Pogutz Stefano, De Silvio Manlio, Perrini Francesco

The Great Bet of Sustainability

The attention dedicated to issues linked to sustainability by the leaders of the largest multinationals has grown enormously in recent years, testifying to the weight these issues have taken on today at the highest levels of decision-making and corporate governance. Values, personal convictions, and vision, comprehension of global dynamics, the ability to involve the entire organization and the stakeholders; ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Fontana Andrea, Cino Vittorio

Businesses Can No Longer Remain Neutral

In the new global scenario, functions and roles that were once the exclusive province of governments now come under the responsibility of businesses. Businesses must develop the ability to operate in increasingly broad contexts through a sort of corporate foreign policy, based on two elements: a reading of social and geopolitical issues, and forward-thinking corporate diplomacy with respect to issues ...