February 26th: a new WIB club, a new networking meeting Instead of a traditional meeting room, the first WIB meeting took place in a gorgeous pub on the Navigli milanesi. The meeting was an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and networking. Nicole Baum, the Club's vice-president, pointed out to the crew's willingness to tackle issues relevant to everybody through a dialogue among women and men as well. Men were present too at a first lively and involving meeting.
The Club's corps consists of Nicola Douglas as president, Nicole Baum, Elise Sweet, Holly Kelce and Aliki Lampropoulou, all of whom are MBA 33 students. After having introduced the up next activities schedule, Nicola Douglas gave floor to Monica Pesce, a consultant at Valdani&Vicari and president of PWA-Milan, an international association for professional women. The association has offices all across major European countries. PWA emerged as an association for foreign professional women operating around Milan to later involve Italian women as well. It is a stimulating framework to hone networking skills not to mention the alliance that came out of such a network.
MBA students meet with Datalogic managing director Robero Tunioli is Datalogic managing director. On February 26th, he met MBA students from the international classes upon an invitation by Prof. Mikkel Draebye. Tunioli intervened during a lecture on Strategy with an emphasis on the design and implementation of growth strategies.
The meeting was an opportunity for Mr. Tunioli to present Datalogic's strategy. He sketched out the main growth catalysts the company has been embracing over the last years (quotation at the stock market and acquisitions in Italy and abroad). Such choices have ranked the company third at the international level.
The meeting attracted the MBA students. They had the chance to grasp the way a company's CEO formulates and implements strategies according to a highly competitive global context such as the one in which Datalogic operates.
Robero Tunioli is 49 and has been Datalogic managing director since 1993. The company has a staff of 1900 employees and has billed over 400 million Euro. Datalogic is the third producer at the international level and the major one in Europe of barcodes players and laptops for data collection and High-tech RFID systems.
The summer internship campaign of the 33rd MBA edition involves other 40 recruiters. The internship campaign is getting along during January and February after having been anticipated in November 2007 with the participation of finance leading companies.
The Career Development Service sat the stage for on-campus presentation to national and international companies that represent different businesses such as energy, luxury, consulting..etc
As far as consultancy is concerned, Boston Consulting Group (an SDA Bocconi top recruiter and partner), Booz Allen Hamilton, McKinsey, Bain e Roland Berger have already put forth their summer projects open to national and international students.
As for manufacturing, Deutsche Post Worldnet, Exxon Mobil, Novartis, Whirlpool and our outstanding partner recruiting Johnson & Johnson and Fiat have presented their summer project work opportunities in different functional areas, which represents a concrete chance to experiment with what has been acquired at the first part of the MBA Program. In some cases, it is about making foundations for a new career.
The internship campaign proceeds with the selection process of candidate students by recruiters. The campaign is to be wrapped by April 30th.
SDA: Research Still on the Rise
Contributions by teaching staff to international journals up 41% In 2007, 89 articles by SDA Bocconi teachers were published in international journals - a full 41% more than in 2006. This significant data, which emerged during the Research and Education Day organized by the Claudio Dematté Research Division on 12 February, gives an accurate idea of how research work has become a fundamental aspect of Italy's leading business school. From 2004 to 2007, projects funded by the Division involved 126 researchers and, from 2005 to 2007, they gave rise to 95 papers and 30 case studies.
Awards for the case studies of the year went to Barbara Rovetta and Antonio Salvi for their Estimating the Credit Risk: The Adidas Case and to Anna Pistoni and Lucrezia Songini for their Enel: CSR and Performance Measurement. The Best Management Paper of 2007 was judged to be The Micro-Structure of Network Evolution: An Empirical Investigation of Alliance Formation in the Mobile Communications Industry by Lori Rosenkopf and Giovanna Padula; and the runner-up was The Effect of International Venturing on Firm Performance: The Moderating Influence of Absorptive Capacity. Joint winners for research projects were the “Osservatorio del mercato mutui casa alle famiglie” and “Laboratorio Armonia”.
Prizes for teaching were also awarded during the meeting. The best MBA teachers were Stefano Gatti , Carlo Altomonte and Elena Coffetti, in that order, while Luigi Tava , Vincenzo Capizzi and Maurizio Leonardo Lombardi were hailed as the best Master teachers. The divisions also awarded prizes, for various aspects of teaching, to Marco Aurelio Sisti, Olga Annushkina, Giovanni Tomasi, Bettina Gehrke, Marta Barbieri, Federico Lega, Gianmaria Battaglia, Alessandra Saggin, Gino Gandolfi, Raoul Pisani, Vincenzo Capizzi, Emanuele Carluccio, Leonardo Etro, Adalberto Alberici, Antonello Garzoni, Paolo Russo, Roberta Raimondi, Francesco Gallmann, Gianmario Verona and Ugo Pomante.
Three students of the 33rd MBA edition at the Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Challenge Gonzalo Cordova, Anastassia Grigorieva and Fabrizio Lavecchia are three SDA Bocconi Full-time MBA students who participated in the Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Challenge that took place on INSEAD's campus during the weekend (8-10 February).
SDA representatives were challenged through a role play game alongside with other 32 students coming from different European Business Schools such as INSEAD, London Business School, Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management and Oxford Said.
During the "War" game, students were divided up into six teams with a defined role set for each one. Three teams were dedicated to automobile production, two oil company teams and the last one focused on market & control.
The aim was to devise a development strategy in the automobile domain within a 12-year time scope.
Apart from the challenge, students also had the chance to relax and enjoy themselves through the evening activities organized on the occasion.
The Birth of the Women in Business Club In 2007, some female MBA students founded Women in Business (WIB). It is a group of female young managers that aims to inspire and support women at workplaces. The group represents a solid network for sharing experience and knowledge.
WIB is not a feminist club. It is rather an instrument for consciousness-raising on the relation between women and the marketplace.
Following its success, WIB has been made official through the foundation of the Women in Business Club that now is part of SDA Bocconi's rich clubs list.
WIB benefits from the collaboration of important sources such as AMSDA, Career Development Service, Laboratorio Armonia, SDA Bocconi professors, major actors of the corporate world and PWA (Professional Women's Association of Milan).
The DiVino Club launches the 2008 events of the MBA Club 2008 marks the continuity of the MBA Club's activities.
To start off, the DiVino Club has, on February 1 st , thrown a party that many MBA students attended. It was a joyful and relaxing evening in which our MBA students had the chance to listen to good music and above all taste the good Italian wine. Drawn from wine cellars all across Italy, the DiVino club members have personally chosen red wine for their fellows such as the 2005 Volte, 2006 Neprica and Sedara Nero d'Avola alongside with white wine like the 2005 Cambrugiano Verdicchio di Matelica and the 2006 Lighea.
2008 marks the continuity of the MBA Club's activities.
