Courses a.y. 2024/2025
I am engaged in three courses of Masters of Science at Bocconi University:
- Corporate Strategy
- Strategic Management of Family Businesses
- Corporate governance
Biographical note
Born in 1959, PhD in 1991, Full Professor since 2002, Dean and Pro Rector from 2006 to 2010. All at Bocconi University in Milan.
Consultant – and member of the Board – of some of the most important family businesses in Europe.
About
I am engaged in a new research to understand the continuity of some of the most important European family-owned companies.
In 2020, based on a survey of 2,000 family businesses worldwide, I have been included by Family Capital -the most widespread global family business platform- among the 100 most influential people on family businesses, the only Italian academic.
Research interests
Family Business, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Strategy, Luxury Industry, B2B industries
Selected Publications
Self-serving or self-actualizing? Models of man and agency costs in different types of family firms: a commentary on "comparing the agency costs of family and non-family firms: conceptual issues and exploratory evidence"
ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, 2004
Is family leadership always beneficial?
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2013
For love and money: marital leadership in family firms
JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE, 2017
Corporate strategy for a sustainable growth : alignment, execution, and transformation
2020
Family ownership dispersion and dividend payout in family firms
JOURNAL OF FAMILY BUSINESS STRATEGY, Forthcoming