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Antonio Giannino

Why SMEs are the new front line of cybersecurity

In today’s digital ecosystem, the perception that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are “too small to be a target” is a dangerous and obsolete anachronism. The strategic reality is diametrically opposed: SMEs are not only a primary target, but are often regarded by malicious actors as the “weak point” of the entire economic value chain. Their interconnectedness with large corporations, ...

Alberto Grando

The glass half full of Italian innovation

One of the key recommendations highlighted in the Report on the Future of European Competitiveness (Draghi, 2024) stresses the need to “bridge the innovation gap,” particularly with respect to the United States. The report notes that “in Europe, innovative digital firms are unable to scale or attract financing, resulting in a significant gap in later-stage investment between the EU and the United ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

From the “horizontal frontier” to the “vertical frontier”: american geoeconomics goes into orbit

In the European public debate, when space is discussed, the tone often still oscillates between the epic of conquest and the rhetoric of scientific cooperation. In the United States, by contrast, space has become something far more prosaic and, at the same time, far more strategic: a natural extension of industrial policy and national economic security. At the beginning of 2026, the question of whether ...

E&M Plus

More trust, more future

The word chosen by Treccani[1] as the “Word of the Year 2025” is “trust”: one of the most searched terms on the platform and the one showing the highest percentage increase compared to the previous year. Given that trust is a fundamental concept in both social and personal life, it is hardly surprising that it has moved to the centre of attention in a period of extreme uncertainty, and that ...

Matteo Cristofaro, Kate Black, Salvatore Moccia

Training managers in the era of AI: why judgement matters more than algorithms

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming management education in business schools around the world. This is not just about new teaching tools, but about a profound change in how judgment, responsibility, and decision-making are taught—and assessed. It is from this transformation that the Vademecum on Generative AI in Management Education was born, promoted by the Management Education ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Digital trade: who sets the rules in the absence of a global agreement?

The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is the summit that periodically brings together the trade ministers of member countries and represents the institution’s highest decision-making body. The latest took place at the end of March in Yaoundé, in Cameroon, and marked something more than a negotiating impasse. Among the central dossiers was the so-called moratorium on customs ...

Donato Masciandaro

Banks: yes to simplification, no to deregulation

“Caesar I was”, and “from within the laws I drew out the excess and the vain ”. Thus does the Supreme Poet had Emperor Justinian speak, suggesting the compass that should guide the Union in reforming banking regulation and supervision: simplification. It is a suggestion that the finance ministers of the European Union have decided to heed. Economic analysis confirms that simplification would ...

Maria Carmela Ostillio, Antonella Di Lazzaro

Beyond the Festival: Sanremo as cultural infrastructure and brand platform

To observe the Sanremo Festival still means confronting a media object that is difficult to place within the traditional categories of television entertainment. For a few days each year, the Festival suspends the fragmentation of the contemporary media experience and recomposes a rare form of collective attention, one that cuts across age groups, cultural competencies, and consumption practices. Sanremo ...

Angelo Cavallo, Federico Frattini, Tommaso Canonici

Persistent growth: why expanding is no longer enough

A recent scientific study shows that only 15% of the companies that exhibited high growth in 1985 were able to sustain it for at least thirty years. McKinsey reached the same conclusion in a study examining the performance of the world’s 5,000 largest companies. In particular, the study found that the median corporate growth rate was 2.8% (considering the ten years prior to Covid), and that only ...

Marco Sampietro

More projects, less time: why managing them well makes all the difference

If we were to reduce to the bare essentials the kind of activities organizations carry out—all organizations—we could simply say: processes and projects. In some organizations, the process component is predominant: think of producers of fast-moving consumer goods, banks, or energy utilities. In others, the project component is more relevant: think of plant engineering companies, software developers, ...