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How a Family Business Grows
A rather deep-rooted prejudice is that a family business goes hand-in-hand with a small-sized business. In actual fact, in the last ten years in Italy, the incidence of family businesses out of total companies exceeding 50 million euros of turnover has increased, in terms of both turnover and employees. Obviously, not all family businesses are the same. According to the tenth edition of the AUB report ...
Selling More and Better with Digital Resources
The digital revolution has affected all aspects of business life in recent years. Sales functions are among those affected by these deep changes, and companies have found themselves facing new challenges linked to different phases of their activities. Given the scope of the changes underway, the Commercial Excellence Lab of SDA Bocconi School of Management decided to conduct a study to understand ...
Changing Jobs, between Expectations and Reality
What are the principal motivations that lead people to change jobs? How long does it take them to do so? What is the level of satisfaction once a new job is found? These are some of the questions addressed by a survey organized by the “Decision Sciences and Business Analytics” Knowledge Group of the SDA Bocconi School of Management in collaboration with the Observatory on Managerial Careers. The ...
The Innovative Pharmacy
The current health and wellness landscape offers consumers a wide range of alternatives, both in terms of products and distribution channels. In this context, as the focus of the Channel & Retail Lab 2023 reveals, innovations in the pharmacy model are revolutionizing customer interaction strategies, both inside and outside the store, through a combination of retail mix and go-to-market strategies. ...
Digital Sustainability in Europe
In recent years, digitalization and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have significantly transformed the connectivity of individuals, societies, and countries. These changes have affected how people live, work, access goods and services, and engage with the external environment. The development of strong digital systems has become a critical component of a country’s development ...
1998-2007: Great Transformations at the Turn of the Millennium
This second article in the miniseries dedicated to the thirty years of Economia e Management concentrates on the decade from 1998 to 2007. This is the decade in which, on March 19, 2004, the founder and first editor of this magazine, Claudio Dematté, died before his time. His successor was Vincenzo Perrone (already the Deputy Editor since 1989), who would remain in his position until 2013. So in ...
Poor But … Poor
The famous film by Dino Risi, Poveri ma belli, was made in 1956. Two more followed, composing a trilogy[1] in which poverty was explicitly mentioned in the titles but associated - unlike neorealist cinema - with the comedy genre. Italy in the 1950s was a poor country that had just emerged from the material devastation and destruction of World War II. The parliamentary inquiry of 1953 had indicated ...
Ecological Transition: Measuring the Impact on Balance Sheet Metrics
The climate transition entails some potential risks, especially for certain industrial sectors. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate the impact of the transition concerning the probability of financial default for various companies. Some balance sheet variables, which affect liquidity and financial position, can influence the economic and financial performance of a company, and therefore must ...
Not Just Artificial Intelligence
Some areas of innovation are rapidly gaining traction in the technology landscape and are entering a prime phase for high-impact experimentation, defined as the Experiment phase. Among these are Mixed Reality, Blockchain Layer 2, and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, all of which present companies with exciting new application opportunities. Other areas, such as quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, ...
Female Advisors Drivers of Change
The Edufin Index is calculated as the average of two sub-indices: the Awareness Index, which assesses financial awareness and understanding, and the Behavioral Index, which evaluates behavioral confidence and decision-making in financial matters. Both indices are scored on a scale from 0 to 100, with 60 considered the minimum threshold for sufficiency. With an overall score of 56, the Edufin Index ...