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Milan

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AMBA
EQUIS
EFMD,CEEMAN, SEPROF

Date established
1971

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SDA Bocconi

INTRODUCTION

SDA BOCCONI School of Management – Milan, Italy

SDA Bocconi is the leading School of Management in Italy and also stands among the top-ranked European Institutions. Founded in 1971, with its 40-year experience, SDA Bocconi School of Management is a pioneer in business education in Italy: its hallmark is innovation and far-reaching modelling that manifest themselves through a wide array of executive courses and master programs.

The School offers a Full-time MBA and a Global Executive MBA in English as well as a modular Executive MBA and an Evening Executive MBA in Italian. It also offers 10 Full-time Specialized Master Programs (5 International + 5 in Italian) and 6 Executive Specialized Master Programs (2 International + 4 in Italian).

For more info: www.sdabocconi.it/sdamaster. Furthermore, the School offers a large variety of Executive Education Open and Custom Programs each year.

SDA Bocconi prides itself for: strategic location, an unparalleled faculty, global outlook, its diversity, powerful networks. The school is positioned in the heart of Milano, a major capital of industry, finance, arts, media and, above all, fashion. Milano is a real-life laboratory for SDA Bocconi. The city is home to a myriad of companies and stock markets to which students are directly exposed. SDA Bocconi added-value is that of having on one side the academic excellence and tradition, guaranteed by “Università Bocconi”, its reputation, strong faculty and research centres, on the other, an eye constantly opened on the market, on the business world needs, a practical, business oriented approach when facing contents and situations.

SDA Bocconi is globally focused. Students come at SDA Bocconi from across the globe. Every year, the campus is exemplification for diversity, internationalism and gender heterogeneity; the classes bring together individuals from different professional backgrounds with no industry dominating over the other.

Worldwide network's pillar of strength lies in the quality of the partnership SDA Bocconi holds with key business institutions around Italy and across the world. SDA Bocconi alumni operating in major cities around the world represent a concrete global network.

The twelve-month Full-Time MBA is the School's flagship programme and begins each October with over 100 new MBA students. Great importance is given in the programme to soft skills, such as decision-making, personal leadership, negotiation and governance. Students spend the first eight months of the programme taking foundation courses and developing management skills followed by a two-month real-world, hands-on experience (individual internship or group consulting project). In addition to 5 functional-based concentrations, such as Strategy, Corporate Finance, Investments, Innovation and Marketing, the Program offers participants the possibility to further personalize their development by choosing the sector-based Track in Luxury Business Management (LBM) in partnership with Bulgari, one of the global players on the luxury market.

Particular emphasis is given to in-company projects (both individual and group), where students, supported by tutors, check out on the field what they have learnt in class.

Most students choose to take the entire MBA at SDA Bocconi in Milano, but some can apply for the Exchange Program option and spend 3 to 4 months at one of over thirty prestigious business school partners located all around the world.

MBA students have full access to Career Development Service (CDS), which organizes one-to-one career advising and coaching, workshops, corporate presentations, company days, CV book and job postings. Career management and recruiting activities allow participants to get in touch with a wide range of national and international companies.
Website: www.sdabocconi.it/ftmba

Latest rankings:
The leading School of Management in Italy and the only Italian School on the top of the charts of all main International Rankings, SDA Bocconi has established itself as a European leader in higher education. SDA Bocconi placed 6th in Europe in the QS Global 200 Business School Report 2012, based on the assessments of Recruiters. The MBA program also allowed the School to reach 4th place amongst the top non-US Business Schools in the Forbes ranking, which is mainly based on return on investment. In addition, SDA Bocconi started 2011 by placing first in the world in the Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking for Full-Time MBA Return On Investment and ended the year reaching the 7th position in the Financial Times' Best European Business Rankings, gaining ten positions. SDA Bocconi also ranks 15th in Europe and 42nd worldwide and remains the only Italian Business School in the latest Financial Times Global MBA Rankings, which has seen a general downgrade of European Schools in favor of U.S. Schools. SDA Bocconi, however, ranks 4th in Europe for salary increase three years after graduation, in spite of the negative impact of the financial crisis on MBA graduate salaries: new international and growth-oriented initiatives have been implemented, in line with the School's decision in 2008 to move from a bilingual MBA to an International program entirely taught in English.

Presentation

Founded in 1971 by Università Bocconi, SDA Bocconi School of Management was first a pioneer in Italy and today enjoys international recognition as a leading management school. Its mission is to educate men and women ready to act anywhere in the world, using their knowledge and imagination.

SDA Bocconi dedicates energy and resources to creating value and spreading values. Proof of this are its research, teaching and relations with the scientific, business and institutional communities. It is exemplified by its exchanges, international approach, critical spirit, pragmatism, curiosity and innovative strength. Knowledge and imagination are the shared pride and heritage of the faculty, its students, and thousands of alumni around the world.

In 1998, SDA Bocconi was the first institution in Italy to obtain EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation. SDA Bocconi operates on all the strategic fronts of education: executive courses, tailor-made courses, specialist master degrees and MBA programmes.

prof. Alberto Grando
Dean SDA Bocconi

Knowledge & Imagination

SDA Bocconi School of Management is designed to optimize resources following the canons that drive successful businesses everywhere. In designing new offerings we encourage the fast, flexible and creative interaction of these canons by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty. The knowledge they impart and the imagination they bring to their efforts in turn enables individuals and organizations to improve their management culture, to more efficiently oversee resources, and to inspire the full potential of each employee. Our education involves both the exploration of theoretical models and the day-to-day reality of running a successful enterprise, and we instil in our students skills, knowledge and tools they can use every day when facing the challenges of an evolving marketplace.

Five Divisions are responsible for the various market areas. They work with the Departments to update open enrollment programs and to develop new products according to demand. Since companies often require multidisciplinary courses drawing from more than one Department, Project Groups follow the evolution of demand for education on particular issues.

This flexible system of widespread entrepreneurship means that the SDA Bocconi School of Management can respond quickly with custom executive programs that complement an already extensive portfolio of educational products. Companies, institutions and individuals who come to us find we are passionately committed to inspiring the professional and personal growth of each and every student.

Empowering lives through Knowledge & Imagination

Mission

To contribute to the development of individuals, companies, institutions and economic systems by researching and disseminating knowledge and skills in the field of management. This is the Mission of SDA Bocconi, Università Bocconi’s School of Management.

SDA Bocconi School of Management and Università Bocconi jointly form a system with common goals and values. It creates synergies and complements the University’s original mission: to meet educational and research needs of economic systems and to work proactively within a continuous process of development and cultural exchange.

SDA Bocconi targets post-experience management education through an effective cycle of research and knowledge dissemination, in an international environment.
SDA Bocconi is a not-for–profit institution which aims to achieve economic autonomy as a long-term factor of cultural independence.
The School’s staff are a key element in its success and deserve opportunities for development.
SDA Bocconi acts upon the guidance of the scientific community as well as that of the world of management, in a global context.

Open Programs
Custom Solutions
Research
Executive Masters

Executive Specialized Master Programs	EMMS Executive Master in Marketing & Sales
Executive Specialized Master Programs	EMSHRM Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management
Full-time Specialized Master Programs:	MAFED Master in Fashion, Experience & Design Management
	MCF Master in Corporate Finance
	MPM Master of Public Management
	MFB Master of Management in Food & Beverage
	MIHMEP Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy
International MBA:	Full-time MBA
Executive MBA:	Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)
Open Enrollment Programs:	GO TO MARKET
	INTERNET & SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CORPORATE AND MARKETING COMMUNICATION
	MEASURING THE MARKET LIQUIDITY RISK
	QUANTITATIVE EQUITY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
	RETAIL MANAGER
	STRUCTURED PRODUCTS: RISKS, REWARDS, VALUATION
	E-MARKETING
	THE MARKETING IN YOU

Available Programs:

E-MARKETING
EMMS Executive Master in Marketing & Sales
EMSHRM Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management
Full-time MBA
Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)
GO TO MARKET
INTERNET & SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CORPORATE AND MARKETING COMMUNICATION
MAFED Master in Fashion, Experience & Design Management
MCF Master in Corporate Finance
MEASURING THE MARKET LIQUIDITY RISK
MFB Master of Management in Food & Beverage
MIHMEP Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy
MPM Master of Public Management
QUANTITATIVE EQUITY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
RETAIL MANAGER
STRUCTURED PRODUCTS: RISKS, REWARDS, VALUATION
THE MARKETING IN YOU

Custom management education: why choose SDA Bocconi?

For more than 35 years SDA Bocconi has been the point of reference for management research and education in Italy and is a fundamental component of one of the world's most important universities. With increasing determination, SDA Bocconi has for some time been moving along the road of international growth that has led it to occupy a position of great significance in the global context and especially in Europe. This has been obtained thanks to constant contact with the business world, financial institutions and insurance companies, public administrations, health authorities and non-profit organisations.

The thousands of managers who each year show their trust and appreciation have enabled us to plan programmes and teaching methods in line with the needs of client institutions.
With its clients, SDA Bocconi fosters long-term relations that enable mutual growth through projects and activities generated by the School's broad range of services offered. In addition to customised initiatives, these include: open enrolment programmes, Masters, communities, research projects, the possibility of recruiting highly qualified students, guest speakers bringing their own experience to our classrooms, and networking activities reserved for the School's alumni.

Custom management education is developed by three divisions dedicated to specific markets: the Corporate Executive Education Division, the Banking, Financial Institutions and Insurance Division, and the Public Administration, Health and Non-Profit Division.

The process of custom management education

The painstaking focus on client needs plays a central role in SDA Bocconi's approach as it is essential in building the value of education and its practical effectiveness for the company. The following aspects are fundamental:

Competency and experience
In identifying education requirements, SDA Bocconi involves Faculty who have profound experience and understanding of the client organisation's context of reference.

Co-ordination
A co-ordinator is appointed for each initiative with responsibility for client relations, programme design and co/ordination of the Faculty members involved in the project.

Dedicated faculty
SDA Bocconi considers the presence of teaching teams that work together on the contents and solutions put forward to the client as one of its founding values. The design team is also involved in the later stage of delivery, thus contributing to the detailed development of custom programmes.

Partnership with the client
The design of the programme is characterised by intense exchanges of information and discussions, within the SDA Bocconi programme team and with the client, aimed at contextualising the initiative, generating a strong level of widespread awareness and establishing the organisational conditions in the company to guarantee its success.

Customisation of initiatives
Each SDA Bocconi custom programme offers a special, unique and exclusive perspective, designed in harmony with the strategies and organisational development needs of each company. Our customisation includes ad hoc solutions for contents, teaching materials (cases, exercises, simulations etc.), forms of delivery and the learning process.

Initiatives are always designed in close collaboration with the company and are developed in closely related and complementary action plans.

Corporates

Executive Education Division Custom Programmes

The Corporate Executive Education Division Custom Programmes intend to be a point of reference for the planning and implementation of management education programmes characterised by:

High quality in all project phases
Great breadth to give clients support in both the development of management skills and in contents related to specific professions; to collaborate effectively on major company change projects; and to involve where possible all management, front line, middle management and high potential
High innovation through forms such as experiential, one-to-one, blended and strongly customised education
International perspective accompanying major global management projects, also through the involvement of international teachers

Long-term relations

The primary objective of SDA Bocconi is to build long-term relations with its clients that make it possible to deepen reciprocal knowledge and create synergies for both partners and the school.

Through long-lasting relations it is possible to create education programmes that involve various management levels, to verify the effectiveness of the tools acquired, to plan in-depth initiatives and create fully-developed courses. A further development in the relationship then enables the partners and the school to share the complete mapping of learning needs and the planning of multi-year action.

Long-term collaboration can also develop research projects regarding specific areas of enquiry or broader and more complex sector scenarios.

The opportunity to collaborate on teaching activities enables many managers to be protagonists in SDA Bocconi classrooms bringing their experience to round tables, seminars and training programmes. This reciprocal collaboration enrich the school's teaching programme as well as the network of contacts and acquaintances of the guest speakers themselves.

The possibility of investing in scholarships for Master programmes and field projects and selecting the school's young managers and students widens the spectrum of mutual opportunities.

Long-lasting relations between SDA Bocconi and its partners also generates strategic collaboration, to consolidate the company's organisational culture and the pursuit of its strategy.

Range offered

Experiential training

SDA Bocconi was the first in Italy some years ago to launch training initiatives that are conducted outside our classrooms. These are initiatives in which learning is acquired through the direct experience of the participants, grouped in work teams, operating in different locations.

The experiential training offered by SDA Bocconi can be divided into three main groups:

Outdoor exercises
Sport and management
Art and management

The outdoor exercises are a "playful" form of teaching, particularly effective for conveying key values to participants. They involve a series of exercises to performed in a group and preferably in the open air whose purpose is to raise people's awareness of group dynamics by analogy and metaphor, provoking guided reflection on the behavioural abilities indispensable for better integration and collaboration.

The Sport and management appointments make it possible to apply management approaches to sports. Monitoring the field of play or a regatta, defining strategies, managing and leading a group, and observing adversaries are all components that enable us to tackle during these appointments the main issues of organisational behaviour. Victory in a sports competition is in fact built by developing and combining competencies in the management process.

The Art and Management activities are individual and collective moments of “expression through art”, in which people – for example, through the metaphor of music, percussion, dance, theatre, martial arts or circus skills – are facilitated in the exploration of the subjective and interpersonal dimensions of their organisational interaction.

The advantages

Custom education is an experience, a project and a challenge that institutions must face for the growth of groups of people linked by common objectives and development paths. SDA Bocconi offers its own competencies and energy to share with clients a path to growth and satisfy their particular education needs.

Custom education produces value and generates tangible advantages for a series of fundamental elements:

- discussion and sharing of the company education objectives and strategy

- analysis of the specific needs of the people present in the organisation

- dedicated design of course contents, the learning format and processes according to the different categories of users

- the creation of teaching materials, business cases and ad hoc simulation software, created according to the company context and specific operational characteristics

- personalised use of differentiated learning channels (classroom, distance learning, video-conference) according to the categories of users and geographical requirements

- follow-up activities

- constant interaction with SDA Bocconi and its Faculty, both in Italy and around the world, in the framework of the entire process of designing and delivering education activities

- fine-tuning of forms of verification of learning, in a short and mid-term rationale

- the certification of learning courses and processes, adopting regulatory or market standards

- the integration between existing education courses in the organisation and the new programmes

- the balanced use of the education budgets and investments available within the company

- the possibility of access to the services and benefits of SDA Bocconi and the broader network of Bocconi University

RESEARCH Empower your knowledge

Research for Businesses and Institutions
At SDA Bocconi, research plays a crucial role in the process of generating, developing, and bringing up to date the knowledge that is at the heart of educational activities, management education, and promotion of management culture.

The aim of SDA Bocconi is to bring international developments in science and academic culture into contact with the real needs and operational problems of those involved in management in businesses, and in financial and public institutions. These objectives are the focus of the research work at SDA Bocconi, in the conviction that knowledge plays a key role in building up competitiveness, efficiency, and quality, and in processes of innovation and change. The mission of SDA and of its research work is to enable key figures in the world of the economy and production to gain access to the most advanced management theories, processes, and techniques.

Giuseppe Soda
Director of the Claudio Dematté Research Division
giuseppe.soda@unibocconi.it

The Research Division
The Research Division is the research centre of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. It was set up twenty-two years ago and was recently given a new lease of life when the decision was made to name it after Prof. Claudio Dematté , whose scientific, teaching, and professional activities were always a fine example of how management decisions and actions should always be based on a meticulous and wide-ranging system of knowledge.

The Claudio Dematté Research Division has the task of studying issues and trends in the management of companies and institutions (financial and public institutions, and non-profit organisations), and it adopts a perspective that embraces many disciplines: strategies and finance in businesses and markets, personnel management and organisation, marketing and distribution, innovation and the management of production and information technologies, and company control and administration.
The team of professors and researchers who work in the SDA Research Division excel in terms of their international experience and background, which allows SDA to compete with the great schools of management and with the most advanced research groups in taking up the challenge of discovering and creating new knowledge for management. This is why the SDA Research Division is a unique centre of excellence among Italian research units in the field of business and economics, and it has been acknowledged by Università Bocconi as a Centre of Strategic Interest.

The Research Division works towards two great complementary objectives: that of being a centre of competence recognised by the national and international scientific community, and that of becoming a key centre for managers, companies, and institutions interested in management issues.

Custom Research Research for Businesses and Institutions
Public and private enterprises, authorities, and financial institutions will find a reliable and internationally acknowledged partner in the SDA Research Division for their specific needs for knowledge and for developing new ideas and projects on correct methodological and conceptual bases.

Targeted research is designed for those businesses, authorities, and institutions that need:

a) to acquire special knowledge to support their strategies, decision-making, practical policies, innovative projects, and changes;

b) to develop, update, and innovate their knowledge, procedures and processes, also in special operational fields and sectors, by commissioning studies for mass circulation through publications, conferences, and workshops;

c) to share a platform of knowledge with a select group by commissioning studies concerning issues that characterise particular sectors, geographical areas, or functions.

The School provides its partners with a unique set of skills and a degree of professionalism that is able to create value through:

1. the provision of relevant research projects for the principals;
2. their rapid and effective transfer to the end users, partly through close collaboration between the research teams and the principals;
3. publication of the results, when required, through initiatives – such as publications, seminars, and conferences – that are able to create a dialogue with the public and, in particular, with professional and scientific communities.

Research Lab
Knowledge is at the heart of every company’s capacity for innovation.

In order to improve and to achieve their own objectives, public and private enterprises, authorities, and financial institutions need to have access to dependable data, information, and scenarios developed by the School’s reliable tools and methods, and through constructive confrontation with professors, experts, and academics, but also with those who work on the same markets in complementary positions or as competitors.

The Research Lab of the Claudio Dematté Research Division are laboratories for developing and sharing knowledge on issues concerning:

the areas in which the School operates: administration, finance, auditing and control, organisation and personnel, finance and private equity, information and communication technology and business intelligence, marketing and retailing, logistics, operations and production;
the leading industries in the various sectors, including banking, insurance and real estate, the public administration, fashion and luxury;
issues of current relevance, such as diversity management.
The aim of the Research Lab’ activities is to provide systematic multi-year monitoring over various periods of a phenomenon, which may be agreed upon in terms of content and instruments with the principals. The purpose is to increase levels of knowledge through the output of their research activities (e.g. research reports and publications) and through events restricted to partners or open to the public.

The Research Lab are sponsored by groups or by individual businesses/institutions who pay a participation fee or through donations, which vary according to the type of Observatory.

Scholar Research
Scholar and Custom Research
SDA Bocconi School of Management invests a significant proportion of its resources in research and in the advancement of management culture and knowledge.

The aim of the SDA Bocconi School of Management Research Division is to bring developments in science and academic studies into contact with the practical needs for analysis and retraining of those involved in the management of companies, financial institutions and the public administration.

DIR Claudio Dematté acts as a platform of ideas, projects, and materials that is designed to improve management culture and knowledge. DIR offers its research activities to management scholars, consultants, managers, assistants, and students on advanced courses.
The academic research carried out by DIR is addressed to management scholars, consultants, and managers. Its advanced, multidisciplinary research covers two main areas:

Academic research underpins high-visibility projects in compliance with international research standards. Through this type of research, which has the explicit aim of publishing articles in leading academic journals and high-impact books on developments in the sector, SDA Bocconi has become an international centre for the development of new knowledge in the field of management.
Sponsored research is carried out for research projects that have a direct impact on management practices. It is characterised by its clear focus on making known and applying research to the real problems faced by companies.

Scholars and company consultants, managers and assistants can access the research projects promoted by the Claudio Dematté Research Division and the various forms of publications this entails.

SDA Bocconi Case Study Collection
The SDA Bocconi collection contains a considerable number of company case studies, which illustrate success stories and innovative techniques and solutions, but also problematic situations and errors that have been made. Like those of all great schools of management, the SDA Bocconi collection is available from the European Case Clearing House, the world’s largest repository of case studies, with over 26,000 cases, notes and other teaching materials.

European Case Clearing House

The Working Paper Collection
The research activity carried out by SDA is well illustrated by the Working Paper Collection now in the Social Science Research Network. The collection consists of over 200 working papers which are available for download.

Social Science Research Network

CONTACT

SDA Bocconi School of Management
Research Division “Claudio Dematté”
Via Bocconi, 8
20136 Milano

Sponsored Research:
Dania Faccio
Tel.: 02.5836.6852
Fax: 02.5836.6883
Annarita Di Bitonto
Tel.: 02.5836.6801
Fax: 02.5836.6883
dircommesse@sdabocconi.it

Academic Research:
Rita Petrosino
Tel.: 02.5836.6908
Fax: 02.5836.6917

EMMS Executive Master in Marketing & Sales
EMSHRM Executive Master in Strategic Human Resource Management
Full-time MBA
Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)
MAFED Master in Fashion, Experience & Design Management
MCF Master in Corporate Finance
MFFB Master in Fine Food & Beverage Management
MIHMEP Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy
MPM Master of Public Management

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INTRODUCTION

SDA BOCCONI School of Management – Milan, Italy

Presentation

Knowledge & Imagination

Empowering lives through Knowledge & Imagination

Mission

To contribute to the development of individuals, companies, institutions and economic systems by researching and disseminating knowledge and skills in the field of management. This is the Mission of SDA Bocconi, Università Bocconi’s School of Management.

The process of custom management education

Corporates

Executive Education Division Custom Programmes

Long-term relations

Experiential training

The advantages

Locations

Open Programs

Custom Solutions

Research

Executive Masters