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2025-08-01 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 European Commission adopted “A road-map towards nature credits” that represents an important step forward. Why could it be so powerful? Nature is providing many ecosystem services, such as the ...

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2025-07-28 Andrea Beltratti, Alessia Bezzecchi

The glorious revolution of urban regeneration and the value of (Well)being Earnest

Urban regeneration has become an increasingly central lever in tackling the major challenges of our time: social inclusion, ecological transition, and economic resilience. But it is no longer enough to treat regeneration as the mere physical rehabilitation of spaces. What is needed are long-term visions capable of generating widespread well-being, building trust between public and private actors, and creating enabling conditions for sustainable development. In this context, the concept of (Well)being Earnest emerges – an authentic, coherent, and integrated approach to sustainability, one that ...

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2025-07-24 Pietro De Giovanni, Alberto Grando

Resilience strategies in designing logistics architectures

The degree of vulnerability is determined by the probability of risk events occurring and the severity of their impact; it depends on both the design and complexity of operational architectures (structural vulnerabilities) and on the capabilities a company has developed and consolidated in its core management processes, particularly in operations and supply chain management. When it comes to structural vulnerabilities, the companies analyzed have adopted various strategies to address the challenges related to supply chain design and complexity, focusing on innovative solutions aimed at improving ...

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2025-07-21 Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Lia Tirabeni

Managers of tomorrow: rethinking education in the age of AI

Management education has undergone a profound transformation over time, adapting to the economic, technological, and social dynamics of the exogenous environment and moving from a traditional approach, based on theory and hierarchy, to a more dynamic model incorporating new technologies. In this sense, the evolution of management education not only reflects changes in the world of work. It’s also a direct function of the ability of educational institutions to respond to the renewed needs of organizations and professionals. In reflecting on the role of managerial training institutions, it’s ...

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2025-07-15 E&M Plus

Advancing technology management: integrating policy, innovation, and systems thinking for industrial transformation

Technological advancement is a defining feature of modern industrial transitions. From artificial intelligence reshaping productivity to the deployment of capital-intensive technologies such as renewable energy systems, the development, adoption and acceleration of new technologies is no longer confined to a single discipline or function. It requires a coordinated, systems-level approach and stakeholder collaboration that integrates innovation, public policy, financing, and organisational transformation. Research in technology management has traditionally focused on adoption frameworks such as ...

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2025-07-14 Lorenzo Diaferia, Leonardo Maria De Rossi, Gianluca Salviotti

AI in business: assessing and prioritizing areas of intervention

The logic for defining a priority order in the areas of intervention and in the initiatives to be pursued must be based on a broad evaluation, which includes technical, business, regulatory framework, and internal competence elements. Several factors will indeed need to be aligned for the successful outcome of the initiatives. In general, there are two dimensions we can consider to define a priority order. The first dimension looks at the expected business impact of the initiatives and is mainly linked to an assessment of business opportunity. The second dimension instead refers to an assessment ...

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2025-07-07 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 product categories. Italian companies have also diversified geographically: about half of our exports go outside the European Union. These factors provide Italy with a solid degree of flexibility ...

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2025-06-30 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 Dantean sin that leads to eternal damnation, but blaming others in order to avoid correcting one’s own shortcomings remains a source of trouble. Exporting firms are special firms. Analysis of big data ...

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2025-06-24 Andrea Dossi

Beyond practice updates. values and principles redefining controlling

The Planning and Control (P&C) system is undergoing a moment of profound transformation. Throughout all of business history, in the face of external changes, the control function evolves when it becomes clear that existing practices are losing relevance. In other words, they can no longer direct managerial action – the perennial litmus test of the usefulness of the P&C system. To regain this relevance, companies are driven to develop new operational practices. These need to efficiently and effectively convey the perspectives inside the organization that inform business decisions in such a way ...

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2025-06-18 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 in communication. Apple’s co-founder, however, failed to mention something crucial that iPhone buyers could have noticed if they looked closely at the new device and its box: “Designed by Apple in ...

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