Marco Tortoriello
Strategy and Operations
Biography
Marco Tortoriello is a Full Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Università Bocconi. From January 2017 to December 2020, he was the Associate Dean of, Masters Division of SDA Bocconi..
His collaboration with SDA Bocconi began in 2015.He has extensive experience designing and delivering executive education programs with companies in a variety of industries such as utilities, financial services/insurance, consulting services, car manufacturing/car components and personal products.
His research activities focus on three main areas: informal networks within and across organizations, knowledge sharing and organizational innovation.
His research has been published in prestigious academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Annals of the Academy of Management and Communications of the ACM, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science. He is a referee for some of the leading National Science Foundations including the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He has been an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School and an Assistant Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. He has won many awards for his research activities, including the Organization Science Extraordinary Service Award to the Editorial Board in 2016 and the Foundation HEC Research Grant award in 2009.
Marco has a degree from Università Bocconi, a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from the Graduate School in Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and a Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). Since 2019 he has been an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal.
Teaching domains
Strategic & Business Planning
Competitive Advantage
Industry Analysis
Competitive Positioning
Latest publications
Big fish, big pond? The joint effect of formal and informal core–periphery positions on innovation productivity
Organization Science, 2020, vol.31, no. 6, pp.1538-1559
Instrumental and affective ties within the laboratory: The impact of informal cliques on innovative productivity
Strategic Management Journal, 2019, vol.40, no. 10, pp.1593-1609
Harvesting Value from Brokerage: Individual Strategic Orientation, Structural Holes, and Performance
Academy of Management Journal, 2018, vol.61, no. 3, pp.896-918
Innovation in organizations: informal network, knowledge sharing, and the development of firms' innovative capabilities
Bocconi University Press - BUP, Milano, Italy, 2017
Being a catalyst of innovation: the role of knowledge diversity and network closure
Organization Science, 2015, vol.26, no. 2, pp.423-438
The social underpinnings of absorptive capacity: the moderating effects of structural holes on innovation generation based on external knowledge
Strategic Management Journal, 2015, vol.36, no. 4, pp.586-597
Grants & Honors
Teaching Award - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2022
Research Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2020
Finalist INFORMS TIMES Best Paper Award - INFORMS
, 2017
Extraordinary Service Award to the Editorial Board - Organization Science
, 2013
Best Class of the Year Award - CEMS - The Global Alliance of Management Education
, 2009
Gerald R.Salancik Dissertation Award - Carnegie Mellon University
, 2005
