Corporate Governance Lab

SDA Bocconi's Corporate Governance Lab is characterized by a two-speed approach. On the one hand, it is broadly aimed at companies in all sectors: from listed to unlisted companies, from industrial companies to banks, from small to medium-sized organizations, to the most structured. On the other, it focuses attention on two specific issues:

• the challenges and solutions for large listed companies, looking beyond compliance
• the multifaceted challenges for unlisted companies, enhancing their specificities while applying lessons learned from the case stories of listed companies.

The added value offered by SDA Bocconi to Corporate Governance Lab participants is related to its wealth of experience. In fact, the School has been serving a variety of businesses and organizations in Italy since its founding, and it acts on the basis of a combination of solidity, capacity and network:

• solidity: guaranteed by many years of experience in research and dissemination activities, developed through specific research but also through the national and international observatories on the subject of SDA Bocconi and Bocconi University
• ability: guaranteed by the Executive Education courses, for over twenty years for insiders, included in SDA Bocconi's MBA and Executive MBA programs, and in Borsa Italiana's Elite Project
• network: guaranteed by collaborative relationships with prestigious companies and institutions in Italy and abroad.
   

Corporate governance LAB monitors the governance of all listed and unlisted Italian companies and all Italian companies with at least 50 million revenue, analyzing ownership (10,000+ companies), group structures (2,000+), bylaws (1,500+ companies analyzed), governance systems (6.000+ companies), biographical and professional characteristics of directors of listed (4,000+ profiles) and unlisted companies (CEO/managers, outsider directors), human capital of those involved in governance, and risk management within the board, including through comparison with other Country Systems.

The "Good Governance" self-assessment diagnostic tool 

Our collaboration with PwC TLS Avvocati e Commercialisti has led to the creation of the free Corporate Governance Diagnostic - Sustainable Governance Assessment for Private and Family Businesses. By collecting self-assessment data from entrepreneurs and leveraging a proprietary, dynamic and adaptive algorithm, it is possible to assess the adequacy of good governance in relation to strategic areas for business growth.

Learn about the team of researchers in the Corporate Governance Lab.

Insights, news and videos recount the activities of the Corporate Governance Lab.