Maurizio Poli

Maurizio Poli is a Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences & Business Analytics at SDA Bocconi School of Management. From January 2018 to 2023, he served as Faculty Deputy for Decision Sciences & Business Analytics. He is also a Contract Professor of Statistics and Business Analytics at Università Bocconi.

At SDA Bocconi, he served as Director of the Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) and continues to be a Faculty Member in several Master's and MBA programs. At SDA Bocconi Asia Center, he is Director of the International Master in Business (IMB) and previously served as Director of the Post Graduate Program in Business (PGPB) and the Executive Program in Business Analytics (EPBA). He has participated in and led numerous consulting, research, executive education, and workshop projects across Europe for major multinational companies operating in the retail, energy, pharmaceutical, and banking sectors.

His research, teaching, and consulting activities focus on business analytics and modelling, risk analysis, machine learning, data visualization, project management, and management control systems. In recent years, he has specialized in forecasting methodologies and innovative analytical tools, the application of quantitative techniques to planning and financial evaluation, and the measurement and management of organizational performance.

He is the author of several academic and professional publications on these topics. His work has been published in journals including Economia & Management and Politeia.

Maurizio has served as a Visiting Professor at leading European, Asian, and North American institutions, including WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Kozminski University, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Fudan University, and UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a member of the Executive MBA Council and was a guest speaker at the GMAC Conference in 2012.

Since 1993, he has been active as a consultant and, since 2012, as an entrepreneur in the areas of data analytics, business simulation, financial modelling, business intelligence, performance management, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation (RPA).He received the Best Professor Award for SDA Bocconi Open Market Courses in 2011 and the Best Professor Award for SDA Bocconi MBA Programs in 2007.

Maurizio holds a Degree in Economics and Social Sciences (D.E.S.) from Università Bocconi and completed the International Teachers Programme (ITP) at the Stern School of Business, New York University, in 2000.