Leonardo Caporarello

Leonardo Caporarello is Associate Dean for Online Learning and Professor of Practice in Leadership and Negotiation at SDA Bocconi School of Management. His research, teaching, and academic leadership focus on how leaders, teams, and organizations negotiate, make decisions, and learn in complex, international contexts increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. His work spans international and multicultural negotiation, organizational behavior and team dynamics, innovation in management education, and AI-enabled learning. He has extensive experience in senior academic leadership. He served as Deputy Dean for Lifelong Learning at SDA Bocconi School of Management (2021-2022), Director of the Learning Lab (2009-2021), and, at Bocconi University, Rector's Delegate for Digital Learning and Director of BUILT - Bocconi University Innovations in Learning and Teaching (2016-2026). Since 2022, he has served as Associate Dean for Online Learning at SDA Bocconi.

His international experience includes appointments as Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo (Japan) and Fudan University in Shanghai (China), and as Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University (USA). He is a faculty member at the SDA Bocconi Asia Center in Mumbai (India) and completed advanced training in Leadership and Negotiation at Harvard Law School (USA).

His recent research focuses on negotiation in the age of AI, decision-making under uncertainty, team processes in dispersed settings, and innovation in management education. In 2026, his work appeared in the Journal of Management Inquiry and the Journal of Innovation & Knowledge; in parallel, he is developing projects on AI-driven negotiation and AI-enabled education. Among his forthcoming editorial projects, he is the author of The Trump Method (Bocconi University Press, forthcoming 2027) and a co-editor of Sustainable Advantage: Business Strategies That Drive Impact (Emerald Publishing, forthcoming 2027).

He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Business Research, serves on international editorial and advisory boards, is a Steering Committee Member of the AI Negotiation Forum 2027, a Scientific Committee Member of the European Negotiation Conference, and co-founder and Scientific Committee Member of the EdTech Forum. His recent contributions connect negotiation, artificial intelligence, team dynamics, and innovation in management education. His work in management education has received international recognition from the Academy of Management and other international education networks.