Sustainability Across the Portfolio
Sustainability at SDA Bocconi is a research commitment that translates directly into the classroom. Faculty from dedicated research centers work at the frontier of environmental, social, and governance themes, and that knowledge flows into programs at every level.
MBA
The Full-Time MBA integrates sustainability across both Core sessions (Foundational Pillars) and Concentrations: around 40% of the program addresses ESG topics. The experience opens with Global Scenarios, a module that frames the challenges of sustainability from day one. Beyond the curriculum, students engage through business projects, company visits, and social entrepreneurship initiatives that connect academic frameworks to real-world impact.
This commitment extends across the broader MBA portfolio through the Executive MBA (EMBA), which includes dedicated courses on sustainability and ESG topics as well as a specific concentration, and the Global Executive MBA (GEMBA), where ESG challenges are explored from an international and cross-market perspective, covering sustainability, social impact, and ESG transformation while offering exposure to emerging-market approaches and global sustainability challenges.
Specialized Masters
Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, and Governance are central across SDA Bocconi’s Specialized Masters portfolio.
This commitment translates into mandatory ESG-related content in nearly all programs, ensuring that students develop competencies in sustainable development, inclusive leadership, ethical decision-making, and responsible governance.
Alongside this integration, SDA Bocconi also offers a fully dedicated program: the Master in Sustainability Management (MSM), a pathway for professionals who want to lead ESG strategy, combining rigorous academic grounding with applied project work.
Executive Education
The school's executive portfolio, spanning open programs on campus and online as well as custom engagements, translates frontier research into leadership competencies. SDA Bocconi builds sustainability literacy at the organizational level, working with individual participants and corporate partners alike.
Through this integrated approach, SDA Bocconi aims to equip current and future leaders with the mindset, tools, and strategic capabilities needed to generate sustainable impact across industries and geographies.
Related Labs & Monitors
Sustainability & GovernanceInvernizzi AGRI Lab
The Invernizzi AGRI Lab contributes to research, training and scientific dissemination for overcoming the challenges of the agribusiness sector, strengthening its knowledge and skills in the areas of business management, innovation, technology and sustainability.
Sustainability & GovernanceSustainability Lab
Sustainability as a strategy to stimulate sustainable and lasting economic growth. The SDA Bocconi Sustainability Lab considers the needs of stakeholders and companies, and acts as a point of reference for innovative solutions aimed at market operators, institutions and civil society for creating long term sustainable values.
Sustainability & GovernanceCorporate Governance Lab
The Corporate Governance Lab aims to disseminate knowledge and frontier best practices on the topic of corporate governance structures and processes with the goal of contributing to their strengthening and, thus, long-term successful performance.
Technological Transformation & InnovationmobiUS Lab
mobiUS, SDA Bocconi School of Management’s Smart & Sustainable Mobility Lab focusing on mobility users, aims at producing and disseminating knowledge on new forms of smart and sustainable mobility in a global context.
Sustainability & GovernanceBusiness Observatory
Corporate Governance LabThe Business Observatory analyzes more than 6.000 medium and large-size Italian companies with over €50 million in turnover. The research topics comprise ownership, leadership and corporate structures, governance models, by-laws rules, economic and financial results and main strategic transactions (M&A, FDI, etc.).
Sustainability & GovernanceMonitor Diversity, Inclusion & Smart working
Corporate Governance LabThe Diversity, Inclusion & Smart working (DIS) Monitor has been monitoring research on diversity management for eighteen years. This research field encompasses areas which have become key to organizations, such as age and generations, gender, sex orientation and identity, culture and ethnicity, disabilities, maternity and paternity, wellbeing and health conditions, work/life balance.
Sustainability & GovernanceSustainable Growth, Internationalization and Capital Opening Observatory
Corporate Governance LabThe SGICO Observatory constitutes a brand-new initiative from the Lab and is focused on mid-size companies with high potential of growth, especially in global markets.
Sustainability & GovernanceCompliance and Value Monitor
Invernizzi AGRI LabThe Compliance and Value Monitor was created with the aim of supporting the development of a new model of sustainable agriculture capable of balancing economic growth, respect for the environment and social inclusion.
Sustainability & GovernanceCSR Monitor
Sustainability LabThe Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Monitor is a qualified think tank on the topic of corporate social responsibility in multinational groups.
Sustainability & GovernanceImpact Investing
Sustainability LabSince 2013, the SDA Bocconi Impact Investing Monitor has been a national and international facility for developing investment projects capable of combining economic and financial sustainability with the production of positive impacts on society.
Sustainability & GovernanceMonitor for Circular Fashion
Sustainability LabMonitor for Circular Fashion is a multi-stakeholder project involving leading companies in the fashion industry and players in its supply chain. SDA Bocconi’s Sustainability Lab is the project’s scientific partner.
Sustainability & GovernanceMonitor for Furniture Pact
Sustainability LabFurniture Pact for the Italian wood-furniture supply chain In a context where ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues are becoming an increasingly important driver, sustainability represents a source of new opportunities for growth and innovation to intercept market demands, enhancing the value of past efforts and setting out on a path that can generate more value for businesses, the community and the environment.
Sustainability & GovernanceSocial Sustainability Monitor
Sustainability LabThe Social Sustainability Monitor is the result of a partnership between SDA Bocconi's Sustainability Lab and F2A, a leader in integrated services, payroll, personnel administration and accounting.
Sustainability & GovernanceSustainable Operations and Supply Chain
Sustainability LabThe Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain (SOSC) Monitor is a branch of the Sustainability Lab at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, focused on scientific and applied research in sustainable operations and supply chain management.
