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To Learn How to Save and Invest, You Need to Set Goals

The best way to approach financial issues is having a specific goal that needs to be reached, explains Annamaria Lusardi, Bocconi alumna and head of the Edufin Committee. This is the only way to understand the concepts of saving and investment. Just like the kids of a school did with their own vegetable garden

Brokerage is key to change the corporate giving scenario

The high levels of corporate giving in countries such as UK, France, Belgium or Switzerland are also due to the development of structures that act as philanthropic intermediaries, explains alumnus Marcello Gallo, president of the Donor Italia nonprofit organization

Hype and early success are crucial to get on top of the algorithm

Mapo Tapo, a startup founded by two Bocconians, Alessia Fontanari and Daniele Calvo Pollino, launched a crowdfunder to publish a travel book dedicated to the climbing community. The goal was reached in a few hours

Poorly Paid Care Workers

In most countries, it is precisely the workers in the care professions who are penalized in terms of remuneration, thus increasing the gender gap. Lack of strong trade unions and a low level of social status are the main causes of this penalization

App, Tutor and Social Networks: to each his own financial training

From startups to online payments, from cash flows to business plans: in planning financial education initiatives the important thing is to ask: who, what and how? As the Bocconi alumna Laura Penna (Unicredit) explains

Pavel Hubacek Wins the Bernard Bolzano Endowment Fund Award

A theoretical computer scientist and Visiting Professor at Bocconi, Hubacek won for three studies on cryptography