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Magazine article (E&M - 2024/4) Vizzaccaro Matteo

How Title Insurance Revitalized the Italian Housing Market

Title insurance is a type of policy that protects buyers and lenders from legal risks associated with real estate, particularly in contexts with less reliable cadastral systems. First widely used in the United States, it was later adopted in Europe to address issues related to donated properties or properties with uncertain provenance. In Italy, a policy called Donazione Sicura (Secure Donation) helped ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2024/4) Nunziata Eugenio

Beyond the Agile Model: Overcoming Instability with Resilience

In a context defined as permacrisis, a company's ability to consciously manage instability and discontinuity becomes central and strategic to its survival. Organizations that invest exclusively in "agile" value-added processes may prove to be "fragile," forced to frequently interrupt operations and reorganize resources in the face of a succession of unforeseen events. In contrast, companies that not ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2024/4) Testa Ginevra

Communication Trends and Strategies: Crisis Management on Social Media

The ubiquitous use of social media is forcing organizations to develop dialogic and interactive crisis communication strategies capable of dealing with increasingly systemic and frequent crises. Crisis communication must not only provide information, but also address the emotional needs of the audience, helping to effectively manage fears, concerns and negative emotions. The value of working with ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/05) Bodnar Gordon M., Consolandi Costanza, Gabbi Giampaolo, Jaiswal-Dale Ameeta

The derivative usage by listed and non-listed Italian Firms for corporate risk management

La scarsa trasparenza sull’uso dei derivati nei bilanci delle imprese è all’origine della scarsa conoscenza degli schemi di comportamento delle imprese per quanto riguarda l’impiego di tali strumenti. Questo articolo esamina le pratiche di gestione del rischio delle imprese italiane, sia quotate sia non quotate, per un’ampia varietà di rischi d’impresa: rischi di cambio, di tasso di interesse, ...

HIT Radar: Application Focus – Information Technology

Le principali applicazioni emergenti abilitate dalle tecnologie mappate nell’HIT Radar per quanto riguarda l’area dell’Information Technology sono Blockchain-based Smart Contract, Intelligent Cloud Orchestrator e API (Application Programming Interface) Management Platform. Blockchain-based Smart Contract Un Blockchain-based Smart Contract è un codice che permette di facilitare, eseguire e attuare ...

HIT Radar: Application Focus - Finance

Cryptocurrency A cryptocurrency is a digital token whose creation is regulated by the blockchain technology, which also ensures the legitimacy of transactions conducted using that digital asset. Despite the humongous hype around cryptocurrencies, the real value of this technology is still unclear – due to the lack of mainstream services and real business cases. Cryptocurrencies are the first technology ...

Innovation & Growth

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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lorenzetti Anna

The Body of Law Against Discrimination

One of the characteristics of anti-discrimination law lies in having introduced peculiar notions, rules, and institutions such as direct and indirect discrimination. Anti-discrimination law is also characterized by the presence of sanctions (that must be "actual, proportionate, and dissuasive"). This strengthens the position of those who – merely because they are victims of discrimination and part ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Saputo Aristea

The Entire Supply Chain Faces the test of Innovation

Innovation in agribusiness represents an indispensible step for the construction of a sustainable future, and is more or less explicitly linked to achieving most of the SDG identified by the UN in 2015.#Forces of change such as technological advancement, the climate crisis, the scarcity of resources, and the growth of global population will influence the trajectories of development in coming years, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Dossi Andrea, Meloni Gianluca

In Management Control the Goal Is to Align Measures and Strategies

Relevance, systemic approach, ability to influence, and ability to generate trust are the four key principles in order to inspire the mission, logics, models, activities, and skills of the Management Planning and Control System (MPCS). Referring to those principles, it is possible to give substance to the concept of "partnership with business," understood as the ability to effectively interface with ...