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Michele Calcaterra

Green transition. Measuring the impact on balance sheets

Michele Calcaterra, Senior Lecturer of Enterpreneurial Finance in Sda Bocconi School of Management and Director of the REPAiR Lab, presents the results of the research project aimed at quantifying the impact of climate transition on Italian companies operating in various commodity sectors.

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Western Sanctions and Russia's Resilience: A Dead End?

According to the Russian Statistical Office, 2023 saw the gross domestic product grow by 3.6%, outpacing the average global economic growth. While data from Moscow should be evaluated cautiously, even the IMF revised its estimate to 3%, suggesting that Russia's economy has indeed grown faster than the global average. The oil and gas industry has been at the forefront of supporting Moscow's economic ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Marine and Submarine Routes: the Red Sea and the Future of Global Trade

We tend to think of the global market as a seamless large bazaar where goods from all over the world flow with ease. In reality, it consists of countless bazaars of all sizes, connected by a circular flow of goods. The most important connections are maritime, and they are quite few. For this reason, the attacks on ships off the coast of Yemen raise concerns that may seem exaggerated, considering that ...

Mirko Olivieri, Ginevra Testa

Internationalization Strategies of Food Tech Startups: an Empirical Analysis

In recent years, the rapid adoption of digital platforms has transformed the relationship between organizations and markets, creating both new opportunities and challenges, particularly through today's social media-dominated environment. Social media tools not only facilitate interactions between individuals and companies but also promote internationalization, enabling businesses to connect with global ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

The shortcut of protectionism: external solutions for internal problems?

“Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona.” Throughout the Inferno, many sinners offer justifications or shift the blame onto others, trying to elicit pity from Dante the pilgrim or to rationalize their eternal torment. This tendency highlights Dante’s view that sin is a deliberate act of will, and that trying to escape responsibility is itself part of damnation. Of course, protectionism is not a ...

E&M Plus

Doing business in a changing world: how Italian managers can lead the future of export

Director Battocchi, the global landscape is entering a new cycle of tensions and instability. Amid regional conflicts, trade restrictions, and the renewed focus on economic security, how are Italian companies coping with these shifts in their international operations? The Italian economy is highly diversified across sectors. We rank among the world’s top three exporters in roughly 1,000 out of 5,000 ...

Thanos Papadimitriou

Apple at a critical crossroads: dependence on China and the tariff war

"Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." The presentation of the first iPhone by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, in San Francisco, California, went down in history not only for its theatricality but, above all, for its vision. The live demonstration of an entirely new product, which introduced so many innovations, literally marked the beginning of a new era – both in technology and ...

Sylvie Goulard

The EU roadmap towards nature credits: new opportunities for business and risks management

Currently, if you cut a tree, you get revenues from timber. In some cases, you can even get money when you replace it through “reforestation schemes”. If you keep it alive, allowing it to continue to capture carbon and keeping intact the larger forest ecosystem, you are not remunerated. This is what should change and what nature credits (or biodiversity credits) could make possible. Recently the ...

Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

Financial education: what national project?

Italy does not rank among the top countries for financial literacy according to OECD statistics. But is there enough awareness in our country that financial education is important for individuals and for the economy as a whole? We have been talking about financial education since at least the mid-1990s, so this is not a new emergency that we haven’t had time to address. How is it possible that after ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Italy's Economic Future: What Exports Reveal

Financially speaking, whether exports exceed imports or vice versa is generally insignificant. Exports represent surplus goods and services that cannot be absorbed domestically and that our trade partners kindly accept in exchange for goods and services we lack. When exports surpass imports, we effectively extend credit to foreign customers; when the reverse happens, we take on debt with them. Sometimes ...