Bocconi Events

The SMS Annual Conference (September 12-15, http://rome.strategicmanagement.net/) is a crucial gathering of international scholars of strategic management. One thousand academics from all over the world will attend the event in Rome (Marriott Park Hotel, via Masala 54). The conference is co-organized by Università Bocconi. which will attract t

With members in excess of 2,500, the Strategic Management Society is the leading association of strategy scholars in the world and allows for the first time a university to be co-organizer of it annual conference. It's also the first time the conference is held in Italy.

The imposing scientific program foresees four plenary sessions and 15 parallel sessions, figures never before recorded in a SMS Conference. 1,109 scientific papers have been submitted by 1,791 authors (973 from Europe, 547 from North-America and 182 from Asia) and examined by 461 reviewers. The registered delegates are already nearly 1,000, more than in any other SMS Annual Conference, and are posed to grow (registration is still open at the web address http://rome.strategicmanagement.net/registration/index.php)

Among the noteworthy conference events  there is a plenary session with Mario Monti (formerly European Commissioner for Competition) and Emma Marcegaglia (head of Confindustria, Italy's entrepeneurial association) debating integration strategies in politics and business. In another plenary session, Sergio Bertolucci, the scientific director of Geneva's CERN, will explain how the leading particles physics lab in the world manages innovation in a continuing, complex balance between competition and cooperation.