Giada Di Stefano

Giada Di Stefano is Full Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University and serves as Director of the DBA Program at SDA Bocconi.

At Bocconi, she is affiliated with BELSS and iCrios, and she serves on the University Ethics Committee as well as on the Executive Committee of the Department of Management and Technology. She previously taught at HEC Paris and worked as a product manager for L’Oréal Paris.

Giada has held a variety of leadership roles within the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. She is currently Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal, Contributing Editor for Strategy Science, Program Chair of the SRF Dissertation Research Program, and Board Member of the Consortium for Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC).

She earned her PhD in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University.

Her research interests lie in strategy and innovation. In particular, she investigates the factors that foster or hinder the creation and transfer of knowledge, both within and across organizations. Her work relies on a combination of empirical methods, with a preference for experiments and applied research. To this end, she has collaborated with numerous companies to conduct field experiments. Much of her research is situated in creative industries, ranging from gourmet cuisine to science, from computer programming to academia.