Go to Main Content Go to Bottom

Search

Found documents: 688
Magazine article (E&M - 2025/3)

Private Equity Drives Italy’s M&A

The Italian private equity market is experiencing a phase of strong expansion. Today these transactions account for more than a third of all M&A operations in Italy, a figure that brings the country closer to the levels of the most advanced industrial economies. In concrete terms, this means that more and more Italian companies are finding in private equity funds not only capital, but also managerial ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2025/4)

From Sales Manager to Business Manager

The study, conducted by the Commercial Excellence Lab at SDA Bocconi School of Management in collaboration with ManagerItalia, examined the perceptions of a sample of 504 managers regarding the role of commercial functions in the recent past, present, and near future. The aim was to identify the main evolutionary dynamics characterizing these critical organizational units.

Magazine article (E&M - 2026/1)

Startups: The Evolution of the Founder’s Role

The study “Grow Old with Me: The Temporal Dynamics of Founder-Market Interactions in Capturing Market Attention” investigates how startup founders attract and sustain market attention over time through different modes of interaction with the market. It seeks to understand how the founder’s role evolves across the startup life cycle and how this evolution affects the startup’s traction on the ...

Book

Dynamical Systems and Optimal Control

The volume provides and elementary introduction of the mathematical modelling in those areas on Dynamical Systems and Control Theory that arise frequently in Economics. The book is divided in two parts. In the first part the fundamental aspects of mathematical modelling are developed, dealing with both continuous time systems (differential equations) and discrete time systems (difference equations). ...

Book

Applied Econometrics

The goal of this book is to facilitate both teaching of applied econometrics, particularly in undergraduate and Master courses, and learning by students and, more generally, by those concerned with a formal measurement of economic events. The task requires combining statistics, economics and computer science in the right proportions. Statistics is needed for a correct formulation of the problem and ...

Book

Mathematics for Economics and Business

This textbook is tailored for those educational programs, such as Economics and Management, which include a first (and frequently the only) course of Mathematics. We have selected some topics which we consider to be fundamental, if not mandatory, for these students: • the knowledge of Calculus, for functions of one and two variables; • the use of Calculus in optimization; • the notion of integral ...

Book

Essentials of Applied Portfolio Management

This book offers an essential introduction to modern portfolio theory. The book provides a number of simple, practical examples to allow the reader to apply the theoretical concepts presented in each chapter. A portion of such practical cases are worked out in Excel and made available through the book’s website. The book takes inspiration from Markowitz’s classical mean-variance, it then proceeds ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2)

Advanced Analytics for Managerial Decision

The "digital economy" Machine learning to support decisions The impact of Covid-19 on data science The potential of machine learning The interpretability of results The modern decision-making process