Contributions by teaching staff to international journals up 41%

In 2007, 89 articles by SDA Bocconi teachers were published in international journals - a full 41% more than in 2006. This significant data, which emerged during the Research and Education Day organized by the Claudio Dematté Research Division on 12 February, gives an accurate idea of how research work has become a fundamental aspect of Italy’s leading business school. From 2004 to 2007, projects funded by the Division involved 126 researchers and, from 2005 to 2007, they gave rise to 95 papers and 30 case studies.
Awards for the case studies of the year went to Barbara Rovetta and Antonio Salvi for their Estimating the Credit Risk: The Adidas Case and to Anna Pistoni and Lucrezia Songini for their Enel: CSR and Performance Measurement. The Best Management Paper of 2007 was judged to be The Micro-Structure of Network Evolution: An Empirical Investigation of Alliance Formation in the Mobile Communications Industry by Lori Rosenkopf and Giovanna Padula; and the runner-up was The Effect of International Venturing on Firm Performance: The Moderating Influence of Absorptive Capacity. Joint winners for research projects were the “Osservatorio del mercato mutui casa alle famiglie” and “Laboratorio Armonia”.
Prizes for teaching were also awarded during the meeting. The best MBA teachers were Stefano Gatti, Carlo Altomonte and Elena Coffetti, in that order, while Luigi Tava, Vincenzo Capizzi and Maurizio Leonardo Lombardi were hailed as the best Master teachers. The divisions also awarded prizes, for various aspects of teaching, to Marco Aurelio Sisti, Olga Annushkina, Giovanni Tomasi, Bettina Gehrke, Marta Barbieri, Federico Lega, Gianmaria Battaglia, Alessandra Saggin, Gino Gandolfi, Raoul Pisani, Vincenzo Capizzi, Emanuele Carluccio, Leonardo Etro, Adalberto Alberici, Antonello Garzoni, Paolo Russo, Roberta Raimondi, Francesco Gallmann, Gianmario Verona and Ugo Pomante.