A study refutes the famous phrase by fashion stylist Karl Lagerfeld to highlight instead the influence of fashion critics in determining the evolution of style and the level of innovation in new collections

From Estonia to Barbados, states with fewer than 3 million inhabitants are real laboratories of good governance which even the largest states can learn from. Because the problems governments face, from climate change to globalization, are the same no matter the country size. And smaller states employ smarter strategies

The possibility for an outgoing Board to propose candidates for the incoming one could be viewed with suspicion. For this reason, in order to achieve shareholder democracy, the Italian stock market regulator will need to intervene to provide certainty to rules

A study on the sector crises and the propensity of companies to resort to early retirement to cope with them helps us to understand what could happen in Italy when the redundancy block introduced to stem the crisis generated by the pandemic is lifted

Offshoring strategies have a positive, or in any case not negative, effect on the country of origin. However, geographical areas characterized by mature industrial structures and unskilled jobs stand out to lose. The gains are going instead to areas with innovative manufacturing systems with a rising number of cognitive workers

Economic shocks, voter disappointment, and behavior of candidates in electoral competitions are the elements that have helped the advance of populist parties. This is what emerges from a Bocconi study