Opinions & Interviews

2025-04-03 Roberto Vona

“Deep Blue”: Exploring the Depths of Space and Oceans at the Festival of Management

The second edition of the Festival of Management by SIMA – the Italian Society of Management – solidified the innovative initiative launched in February 2023 to elevate management culture within Italian universities. With over a thousand in-person attendees at Bocconi University, in Milan, the event underscored the need to reestablish human connections after years spent in "non-places" devoid of relational intelligence. The goal was to create a physical, welcoming, and empathetic gathering – free and open to all – where participants could not only shake hands but also exchange values of ...

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2025-03-25 Bruno Busacca, Maria Carmela Ostillio

Brand and Artificial Intelligence: Two Key Questions to Explore New Frontiers

The continuous development of AI opens up ever-new strategic and managerial horizons for businesses, revealing extraordinary opportunities in terms of efficiency (a goal that seems to be prevalent today) and effectiveness (an area that offers unexplored avenues for analysis and thus requires further investigation). These opportunities are inevitably linked to various risks, stemming not only from the inherent uncertainty of radical innovations. Among these, from the perspective of brand management, the risks arising from the following should not be underestimated: a) errors in the data used to ...

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2025-03-06 Salvatore Vicari

Luigi Guatri: The Legacy of a Master

Professor Luigi Guatri's legacy resonates deeply within Bocconi University and throughout the landscape of Italian economic and business thought. A master in the truest sense of the word: a rigorous scholar, an intellectual guide, and a point of reference for generations of academics and students. After teaching at the University of Genoa and the University of Parma, he returned to Bocconi as a full professor in 1969, taking on roles of increasing responsibility: director of various institutes, managing director, rector, and vice president. I met Professor Guatri in 1973 while attending his course ...

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2025-02-06 Stefano Caselli

Companies, Entrepreneurs, and Growth: Guido’s Open Challenges

Guido Corbetta never failed to make an impression on people. Indeed, he left a deep, indelible mark, a legacy of ideas and challenges that are now ours to nurture and grow. Guido not only ran our Economia & Management magazine, he also held many roles at SDA and the University. But more than all this, he paved new paths, with his signature style that always characterized everything he did. And thinking of these new paths, family businesses are what immediately come to mind, the common theme in all his studies and all his work. This was his biggest passion, what drove him to tackle issues like ...

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2024-05-23 Luigi Rinzivillo

Generative AI: A Source of Wisdom

In "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the journey and adventures of a young girl, Dorothy, are recounted as she navigates the magical Land of Oz after being swept there by a tornado that struck Kansas. The story describes Dorothy's travels with her "new friends" to meet the wizard who can grant each of their wishes. Although being displaced by a tornado is not a common experience, the feeling of being "swept away by a cyclone" is more common than one might think. A defining characteristic of our time is undoubtedly the rise of "artificial intelligence" (AI), the ability of a computer system (an algorithm) ...

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2024-04-16 Salvatore Vicari

Artificial Intelligence Ethics: a Brief Overview

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly revolutionizing our world, with applications in every sphere of life, from medicine to finance, manufacturing to entertainment. It is estimated that, in the near future, a large part of our activities will be carried out by intelligent machines or will see a collaboration between humans and AI. However, this unprecedented technological progress brings with it new ethical challenges. Intelligent machines, in fact, can make decisions that have a significant impact on the lives of people and society. It is no coincidence that the first Artificial Intelligence ...

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Un momento del Festival del Management 2024

2024-03-26 Roberto Vona

Festival of Management: an Impact that Continues

And so the second edition of the Festival of Management has also come to an end. The enthusiasm was palpable as we reunited in Milan on March 7 and 8, hosted by Bocconi University. Witnessing the sincere interest and trust in an initiative that transformed from a visionary idea in October 2021 into a concrete project and now a well-established reality, thanks to the SIMA academic community's support, was truly inspiring. This success was not guaranteed; it was made possible by our partners and all those who supported and shared our vision and values unconditionally. The Festival's attendance of ...

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Festival del management per sito EM Plus

2024-02-21 Roberto Vona

Inspiration and Innovation at the Festival of Management

Last February, the first edition of the Festival of Management by SIMA (the Scientific Society representing Italian Academics of Management) marked the beginning of an innovative path, for Italian universities, of enhancing managerial culture, aimed at supporting the civil, social and economic progress of the country. Important issues such as the fight against mafias in the economy, the energy transition and the organisation of services for the protection of public health can be successfully governed if the necessary organisational skills are available. The interest shown by the extended community ...

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2024-01-24 Roberto Vona

Management Returns to the Centre of Communities

The forthcoming Sima’s (the Italian Society of Management Scholars) Festival of Management is approaching. It is still growing and evolving thanks to positive feedback received after the first edition. We are coming back to Milan and to Bocconi University on 7th and 8th of March 2024, thanks to precious support of our colleagues and to the great effort of the Sima’s Past President, Sandro Castaldo, who believed in this project from the very first moment. We have been working for a long time to the several financial and organizational elements as well as to the “editorial” and communication ...

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Il lavoro bancario in Italia, dal 1990 a oggi

2023-03-21 Roberto Ruozi

Bank Employment in Italy: the Prospects for the Future

On January 23 of this year, the Financial Times published a long article by O. Walter and K. Martin, who discussed some considerations shared during the recent Davos Forum regarding the prospects for employment in banks, with specific reference to the situation in the U.S., but also to that of some European banks. The central point of the article concerns the fact that the main American banks – among which Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of New York Mellon are cited – and some large European banks, citing UBS and Credit Suisse (the protagonists of global economic news in recent weeks, ...

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