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Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Ruta Dino

A Model of Sports Between Olympic Spirit and (Hyper) Professionalism

Sport represents a complex and varied set of meanings and values: it is a game, competition, show, but also respect for diversity, inclusion, and culture in the broadest sense of the term. These characteristics concern sports in its professional sense, where they are differentiated according to different cultural and social models, whose differences, especially in the field of football, are evident, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Amico Biagio Maria

All the Ingredients of Supply Chain Resilience

The agri-food system is also permeated by the concept of resilience. If the components of the supply chain are resilient, the entire system will benefit. The characteristics of a resilient supply chain depend in part on strategic choices and in part on tactical decisions. Sustainability of the entire sector is the most important and tangible characteristic, as the transition to sustainable production ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Ruta Dino, Antonelli Luca

Athletes and Careers: The Game Is Played Off the Field Too

The athlete is the protagonist of all aspects of a sports discipline - competitive, social, and economic. However, an athlete's career is built on acquiring skills that accompany them in their professional pathway. Post-career planning should be established from the early stages of their sports journey.

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Billari Francesco C.

Milan’s Olympic Ambitions Reach New Heights

The Olympics are an extraordinary opportunity for social, cultural, and economic growth for the countries that host them. The year 2026 marks the Winter Olympics, where Milan and Cortina will play a significant role in an important moment of visibility with tangible impacts, measurable in quantitative terms, and intangible values, equally significant for the event's success and the reputation of the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Giannetti Federico, Lo Zoppo Marianna

Vertical Farming: from Hype to Disinvestment

A strategic sector capable of addressing the challenges of agribusiness, Vertical Farming (VF) has attracted the interest of numerous investors. However, after the initial phase of hype, there followed a significant series of disinvestments that led to cutbacks and reorganizations. This is a rather common situation in venture capital investments linked to new technologies, which often lack the capacity ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Calabrese Giuseppe Giulio

Expected and Real Benefits of Industry 4.0

The automotive supply chain is a global industry historically characterized by a high degree of fragmentation of production due to numerous international and local connections, as well as substantial requirements for investment in digitalization approaches. In recent years, Industry 4.0 has grown in importance across many advanced manufacturing industries and represents an emerging industrial model ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Tettamanzi Patrizia, Minutiello Valentina, Missaglia Anna Lucia

Non-Financial Disclosure to Enhance Sustainable Practices

The attention to sustainability and the application of ESG criteria to the business model have by now become a necessary but not sufficient precondition for businesses. We are seeing a radical change in the view of these issues, thanks also to the attention of supranational organizations and public opinion being increasingly focused on businesses’ impact on society and the internal and external ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Gatto Luca

The Export Manager: A Strategic Profession for Growth

The context in which Italian SMEs act is increasingly complex. The Covid-19 pandemic, digitalization, the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the related impact on energy prices, inflation and the geopolitical scenario have made the competitive area tougher, a place where hyper-competition pushes companies to positioning that is more costly even though it has greater value. In this context, the Export Manager ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Rutigliano Michele

Management and the Board: A Crucial Relationship in M&A Operations

In acquisition operations, the buyer generally estimates the synergies generated by the aggregation of the two entities. This is a component of the value attributed to the target company that often represents a non-negligible percentage of the overall estimated value. On this point, there are some who believe that this component of value is very rarely confirmed ex post following the actual integration, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Chiaroni Davide

From Recycling to Redesign: The Challenge of the Circular Economy

“Circular economy, Italy is the leader in the EU for waste recycling, beating out France, Germany, and Spain.” This was the headline in late spring of 2022 in a famous economic daily in our country, provoking an informational short-circuit that in my view is “dangerous,” because it contains two errors (to be marked with a red pencil, if not a blue one). The first error – the one most deeply-rooted ...