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Carbon Prices and Markets: The Solution to Climate Change?
To incentivize the energy transition, a growing number of governments throughout the world are implementing market-based mechanisms, for instance involving carbon prices and markets. These mechanisms, in which companies make voluntary commitments, have seen enormous growth in the last two years. Companies begin to perceive decarbonization not only as a threat, but also as an opportunity. The energy ...
Work Hard and Have Fun … in an Amazon Warehouse
Inside Amazon warehouses, technological progress, and the managerial techniques related to it, aim to track every movement of workers, measuring and regulating all of their movements. The growing preponderance of digital mechanisms that are nourished by workers means that the warehouse desires not only work, but also data. The software systems underlying inventory and order fulfillment must continuously ...
ESG Rating and Credit: How to Assess Integrated Risk
A sustainability rating, or ESG rating, represents an appropriate integration of the information on business risk deriving from the more consolidated credit rating. An integrated approach that involves a joint assessment of the financial solidity of a company (credit rating) and its sustainability (or solidity of the business model), allows for innovating risk management activity by making it more ...
Accelerating the Transition: Financial Services Must Also Do Their Part
In the last two years, the increase of social disturbances, the growing attention to climate change, and the need to act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, has attracted attention from companies in all sectors. Financial services companies are also called on to catalyze and accelerate the transition toward a new economy, based on ecosystems that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. ...
The Impact of Sustainability on the Cost of Capital
The concept of creation of value has recently taken on a new feature, the sharing of value for all of the stakeholders involved. In order for this to occur, it is necessary for business strategies and models to be structured and managed in an amply sustainable vision in environmental, social, cultural, and ethical terms. Companies that are associated with high ESG performance have easier access to ...
Sustainable Finance. Why It Has to Change
In the focus of this issue of Economia&Management , some colleagues from the REPAiR present studies and analyses on the future of finance, developed in the context of the new laboratory at the SDA Bocconi.
The New Logics and Growth Trajectories of Powered Advertising
The communicative potential offered by new technologies has profoundly modified the marketing tools in the hands of advertisers. “Powered advertising” indicates a new model of advertising based on new digital technologies and data. “Powered advertising” offers significant advantages with respect to traditional advertising strategies, as it offers a means of advertising that is measurable and ...
Another Weapon for Businesses: Imitation Market Strategies
Although innovative strategies are able to offer greater potential profits, they also bring a greater risk of failure. From the standpoint of balancing opportunity and risks, innovation and imitation should thus not be seen as alternatives, but as complementary. The digital paradigm has made innovation, but also imitation, easier. Among the second mover vantages not to be underestimated today, we ...
The Strength of the Example of the Italian Manufacturing System
During the course of 2020-2021, the Italian production system, thanks to the dynamism of single businesses or through the creation of networks, proved to be resilient and able to rapidly recover from the drops in production suffered in the initial period of the pandemic. In the months of the lockdown, various businesses launched new product lines (personal protective equipment, medical devices, air ...
The Reaction to the Shock, Defined by Change
During the first phase of the health emergency (March 9-May 4, 2000), the shutdown of economic activities caused a blockage of operations especially for smaller Italian businesses, that in our country represent a high percentage of employment and economic output of the Italian production system. Over 70 percent of businesses (73.7 percent in terms of employment) reported a reduction of turnover compared ...