GIADA DI STEFANO

I currently teach courses on strategy, the use of data for managerial decision-making, and research design at the M.Sc., MBA, and Ph.D. level. My teaching portfolio includes courses on Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Strategy in the context of creative industries. At the doctoral level, I also have experience teaching Behavioral Strategy and Corporate Strategy.

I am an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Department of Management & Technology, Bocconi University, Milan, and Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. I obtained my PhD from Bocconi University in 2011. My research focuses on the interplay of competition and cooperation, with a specific focus on factors that foster or inhibit the creation and transfer of knowledge, within and across organizations.

I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Strategic Management Journal and Contributing Editor for Strategy Science, and am in the editorial review board of Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and Journal of Organization Design.

I am the Program Chair of the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program of the Strategic Research Foundation, and serve on the board of the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC).

At Bocconi, I serve as the director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) at SDA Bocconi School of Management, a member of the Ethics Committee (since 2020) and a member of the Department of Management and Technology Executive Committee (since 2020). I am affiliated with BELSS and iCrios.

Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a faculty member of HEC Paris, where I am still part of the SnO Research Center. Prior to joining academia, I worked as a product manager for L’Oréal Paris.

My general research interests are in the area of innovation, knowledge, and organizational learning. More specifically, I study the interplay of competition and cooperation, with a specific focus on factors that foster or inhibit the creation and transfer of knowledge, within and across organizations.

From a methodological standpoint, my research is prevalently mixed-method, with a focus on experiments and field work more broadly. I have partnered with a number of organizations to conduct experiments “in the wild.”

My work is often conducted in the context of creative industries, broadly defined – from gourmet cuisine to science, from computer programming to academia.