One of the many projects of entrepreneur and content creator Tia Taylor, who flew from the US to Italy to study at Bocconi, is RacConti, a book of personal finance tips. “I am a young black immigrant in Europe. People don’t usually expect me to have achieved everything I have. But I’ve come to accept that this is how it is in this moment in history, and it doesn’t upset me anymore. I keep following my path”

She is the third generation of hoteliers, but Valentina de Santis studied economics and management at Bocconi and Bocconi, and through these subjects she made hospitality a familiar concept

Head of Latin America and Canada for the giant KKR, an international investment firm with more than $500 billion in assets under management, Monica Mandelli retraces the steps of her career. Including the ordinary gender discrimination of the early days

Francesca Daverio talks about the leap of faith that led her to give up a career as a lawyer in Italy to pursue a dream, and how she achieved it. At the World Bank today, she does not want to repeat the mistakes of her past (male) bosses

This is how Selene Biffi, who has been working for years in Afghanistan with various social entrepreneurship projects, exhorts young people: ‘The most important thing is to start, the rest will come in time'

Her father would have liked Cristina Catania to study engineering. Today, as senior partner with McKinsey in Milan, she urges girls to acquire and learn to use unique and distinctive skills. But managers have to know how to listen and value talent too