Emanuela Prandelli
Associate Professor

Biography
Emanuela Prandelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Università Bocconi. She is also LVMH Associate Professor of Fashion and Luxury Management.
At SDA Bocconi, she is the Associate Dean for Open Programs and Director of the Master in Fashion, Experience & Design Management (MAFED) and she teaches innovation management, marketing management, digital strategy, and fashion & luxury management. She has coordinated ad-hoc initiatives for several companies operating in the fashion field, fast moving consumer goods industry, publishing and consumer electronics.
Her research activities focus on collaborative marketing and open innovation, digital business and social media marketing . She has a special interest in exploring these topics in fashion and luxury. She mainly relies on experimental design research methods.
She is the author of numerous books and articles on her topics of interest. She has published several international articles in leading international journals, such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Organization Studies, California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, European Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management, among others. She is a reviewer for several specialized journals such as Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Marketing, Organization Studies, Research Policy. In 2021 she won the Best Management Book of the Year Award by Canova Club with the book published in 2020 and entitled “Human digital enterprise”, co-author G. Verona. She won the “Innovation Excellence Award” in 2022 and in 2012 and the award for best teacher of the Marketing Department at SDA Bocconi in 2014 and 2008. She got the award for distinctive academic research from Bocconi University for the results achieved during the periods 2001-2003, 2005-2007, and 2013-2014, and 2020. She won the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper published in California Management Review in 2000. She also was Runner-up for the 2012 Carolyn Dexter Award for the Best International Paper, Academy of Management Conference, for the Theo Scholler-Preis 2011, Munich Best Paper Award Innovation Management, and for the JIM’s 2006 Award for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2005. Her Ph.D. Dissertation was prized by Booz Allen & Hamilton and financed by the Marketing Science Institute of Cambridge.
She served as a Research Assistant at St.Gallen University and at the Research Center on Technology, Innovation, and eCommerce Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where she was also a Visiting Professor. She was also a visiting Professor at WU, Vien.
Emanuela holds a Ph.D. in Management from Università Bocconi.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Give me a second life! Extending the life-span of luxury products through repair
MRAD, M., R. W. SEMAAN, G. CHRISTODOULIDES, E. PRANDELLI, "Give me a second life! Extending the life-span of luxury products through repair", Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2025, vol. 82, pp. 104055 - 2025
Digital Strategy
PRANDELLI, E., G. VERONA - "Digital Strategy" - 2025, Egea, Milano, Italy - 2024
Roberto Cavalli, stilista e imprenditore innovativo
PRANDELLI, E., "Roberto Cavalli, stilista e imprenditore innovativo", Eco, May 2024, pp. 107-109 - 2024
Il potere dell’IA generativa nel settore del Fashion & Luxury
PIANCATELLI, C., E. PRANDELLI, "Il potere dell’IA generativa nel settore del Fashion & Luxury", Harvard Business Review Italia, June 2024 - 2024
Luxury branding and the creator Economy: Emerging challenges and future avenues
PRANDELLI, E., Y. WANG, H. WEIJO, "Luxury branding and the creator Economy: Emerging challenges and future avenues", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2024, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 455-467 - 2023
Nuove tendenze e l'energia contagiosa
PRANDELLI, E., "Nuove tendenze e l'energia contagiosa", Il Giorno, 23 April 2023 - 2023
Personalizzare il prodotto ma con moderazione
PRANDELLI, E., "Personalizzare il prodotto ma con moderazione", Economia & Management, 2023, no. 3, pp. 38-42 - 2022
I nuovi paradigmi della customer experience: il settore della moda
PRANDELLI, E., "I nuovi paradigmi della customer experience: il settore della moda" in Manager del Futuro., E. Baglieri (Ed.), Egea, chap. 7, pp. 109-121, 2022 - 2022
La costruzione di risorse di fiducia nelle relazioni parasociali: il ruolo di influencer reali e virtuali nei contesti digitali
CILLO, P., E. PRANDELLI, "La costruzione di risorse di fiducia nelle relazioni parasociali: il ruolo di influencer reali e virtuali nei contesti digitali" in Innovazione e Management: Omaggio a Salvio Vicari., G. Bertoli, S. Castaldo, P. Cillo, G. Troilo, G. Verona (Eds.), Egea, pp. 315-326, 2022 - 2020
Human Digital Enterprise: Creare e co-creare valore in un contesto omnidata
PRANDELLI, E., G. VERONA - "Human Digital Enterprise: Creare e co-creare valore in un contesto omnidata" - 2020, Egea, Milano, Italy
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Grants & Honors
2025 TOP Luxury Speakers, The World Luxury Chamber of Commerce, 2025
Excellence in Teaching Award, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2022
Premio del Club Canova per il miglior libro di management per l'anno 2020, con il libro 'Human digital enterprise. Creare e co-creare valore in un contesto omni-data', coautore G. Verona, 2021
DIR Research grant, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2017
Award for distinctive academic research, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2014
Best Teacher of the Marketing Department, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2013
Innovation Excellence Award in custom executive programs, ABMA William A. Cordes, 2012
Premio per l'Eccellenza nell'innovazione - Divisione Formazione Manageriale su misura Imprese, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2012
Best Teacher of the Year, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2008
Best Teacher of the Marketing Department, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2007
Award for distinctive academic research, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2005
Award for distinctive academic research, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2001
Award per il miglior articolo, Accenture Management Consulting, 2001
Best Management Paper Award for the article "Communities of Creation: Managing Distributed Innovation in Turbulent Markets" (co-author Mohanbir Sawhney), California Management Review, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2001
Ph.D. Student Finalist with the Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal for the “Booz Allen & Hamilton/Strategic Management Society PhD Fellowship”, Vancouver, Canada, Strategic Management Society, 2000
Scholarship for the Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal, Marketing Science Institute, 1999

