Management

Maurizio Zollo finds that CSR's merely symbolic actions are more likely to fail when the stakeholders have no resource-links to the company or are specialists with an in-depth knowledge of one domain

The Bocconi professor will speak at a convention on project management in California

With respect to the other types of companies, Italian family-owned companies are more profitable. In the majority, they are still run by an individual leadership, although collective leadership already concerns 37% of family firms. There are still not enough women, but there are pink districts like Bologna, Napoli, Torino, and Treviso. The third-generation curse is still in effect

Modularity of products is beneficial in the short term, but hampers the introduction of disruptive innovations

The most performing equity funds delude themselves into managing too many projects at the same time

Big players are realizing the excessive costs of overpatenting