22 Dec 2016 Anne Jacqueminet Awarded for Her PhD Dissertation The Bocconi professor's study on the implementation of CSR in MNEs' subsidiaries has obtained the HEC Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize
25 Jan 2017 Bribery, a Shortsighted Alternative to Investments A study by Birhanu, Gambardella and Valentini reveals the mechanism behind the relationship between bribery and investment in fixed assets: short term oriented firms prefer to bribe rather than invest, while the opposite is true for firms with a longterm orientation
11 Jan 2017 Why the Most Innovative Companies Have Holes in Them Corporations with dense and homogenous internal networks are unlikely to make good use of external knowledge. When networks are more open and workers fill the gaps of their networks by talking to people with different skills, patents production increases
13 Jan 2017 Fashion is Hidden in the Big Data of Instagram Capturing the flow of information carried by social networks, and classifying them through an algorithm could enable us to identify trends, explains Paola Cillo, Associate Professor of innovation management
21 Nov 2016 Family Businesses Grow More Than the Rest, Looking Abroad According to the latest AUB Observatory, 45% of acquisitions made by Italian family businesses are made abroad, in culturally distant countries too. 9.1% of leaders are women, more than in the rest of Europe. Three successful models have been singled out
18 Nov 2016 BIDSA, Bocconi Institute for Data Science, a New Research Center Is Born With an interdisciplinary approach, BIDSA puts together more than 30 scholars from different departments who, in their research, analyse largescale datasets and model the underlying phenomena. Igor Pruenster is the director