antonella.caru@unibocconi.it
Bio
She was born in Varese in 1961. Married, resident in Varese. She obtained her first Degree in Business Economics – Major in Administration and Control (1986), from Bocconi University, Milan, and a PhD in Business Economics (1993) from the same university. She is a full professor of Business Economics and Management at Bocconi University and senior professor at SDA—Bocconi School of Management University.
She was appointed as Dean for Development and Alumni Relations since November 2022 at Bocconi University, where she had already served as Dean of the Graduate School (2014-2022), Dean of the Undergraduate School (2012-2014).
She is a member of the Council of Bocconi Alumni Community.
She teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses. Her teaching activity at the undergraduate and graduate level is mainly on services management, experiential marketing, and arts and cultural management topics.
Research Interests
Since the beginning of her career, she has developed wide and strong competences in service management that remains one of her leading fields of research. Over time, her attention has become centered on customer experience and arts and cultural organizations management. Indeed, in the last twenty years she has developed several research projects on customer experiences and experiential marketing, as the new concept crucial for every organization. At the same time, long ago she was one of the first management scholars addressing the arts and cultural organizations challenges. Over the years, she has developed research projects on various management topics, such as performance measurement and innovation.