NICOLA MISANI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

I teach Management and Sustainability in a variety of courses at Bocconi University. I am the program director of “Creating Value through Sustainability”, an intensive executive open program at SDA Bocconi, where I have also taught in numerous custom programs on sustainability for Italian and multinational companies.


Biographical note

I am a Researcher in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University, where I teach courses on management, business strategy, and sustainability. I am also a fellow and deputy director at the ICRIOS research centre of Bocconi University.

My research interests include business ethics, business sustainability, and sustainable entrepreneurship. I am the author of several publications that have appeared in international refereed journals, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Strategy and the Environment, Ecological Economics, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review. I co-edited the book Fashion Collections. Product Development and Merchandising (Bocconi University Press, 2017). I have won numerous teaching and research awards, including the 2015 Academy of Management IM Division CGIO Best Paper Award in International Corporate Governance.

I earned a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University and a degree in Philosophy from the State University of Milan. I received my PhD in Management Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.


About

Forthcoming on Business Strategy and the Environment: “Paving the Road towards Eco-effectiveness: Exploring the Link between GHG Emissions and Firm Performance”, with Stefano Pogutz and Angelo Russo. In this article, we investigate the drivers that lead to an increase in the firm's environmental impact under the conditions of increasing market performance by the firm.


Research interests

Business Ethics; Corporate Sustainability; Voluntary carbon markets.


Selected Publications

Carraro, Stefania; Misani, Nicola
Discretion and refinement at the core of quiet luxury
ECONOMIA & MANAGEMENT, 2023

Russo, Angeloantonio; Pogutz, Stefano; Misani, Nicola
Paving the road toward eco-effectiveness: exploring the link between greenhouse gas emissions and firm performance
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2021

Nicola Misani
Why and how to be a B corp or benefit corporation
ECONOMIA & MANAGEMENT, 2021

Antonio Tencati; Nicola Misani; Sandro Castaldo
A qualified account of supererogation: toward a better conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility
BUSINESS ETHICS QUARTERLY, 2020

Misani, Nicola
Sustainability and implicit contracts
Sustainability, 2020