Ph.D. Faculty

Emanuele Bajo is Full Professor of Finance at the University of Bologna and Associate Dean at the University of Bologna Business School (BBS). He is also Director of the Master in Finance and Fintech and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). In the past he has been Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, San Diego State University and Visiting Researcher at Boston College. He is also member of the Consultative Working Group of Risk Standing Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

His research interests and major publications are mainly related to IPO, Household Finance and Corporate Risk Management. He has published numerous articles in prestigious finance journals (among others, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance) and two books (Convertible bonds and Corporate risk management).

He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Economics and Business. In the past he also worked in business consulting and he is the founder of the web site Borse.it, one of the leading financial web sites in Italy.

Ludovico Bullini Orlandi is Associate Professor in Organization and HRM at the Department of Management and co-scientific director of the Master in HR & Organization at the Bologna Business School. He conducts research mainly on topics related to digital transformation and its consequences within organizations, human resource management, and organizational behavior. 

ACADEMIC POSITION

Associate Professor in Economia e Gestione delle Imprese, ssd SECS – P/08. Department of Management, Università di Bologna (2014 - present).

Scientific Director of the Master in Business Administration (MBA "Week-end" formula) at Bologna Business School (2016 - present).

Previously: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore a Tempo Indeterminato) in Economia e Gestione delle Imprese, ssd SECS – P/08, Department of Management, Università di Bologna (2006 - 2014).

EDUCATION

- Doctoral Degree in Business Administration, Department of Management – Università di Bologna (2005).

- Research Assistant (Assegnista di ricerca), Department of Management – Università di Bologna (2005 - 2006: 14 months).

- Laurea summa cum laude in Business Administration, School of Economics, Università di Bologna (2000).

INVITATIONS- VISITING PERIODS

- Visiting Scholar at the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2007).

- Visiting Scholar at Grenoble Ecole de Management (2012).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Interfirm relationships (focus on brand licensing)

- Cultural intermediaries

- Sustainability and Circular Economy

- Creative industries (focus on the fashion industry)

- Quantitative and qualitative research methods

AFFILIATIONS, EDITORIAL AND REFEREEING ACTIVITY, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

- Member of the: Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali (UNIBO), Core Faculty of Bologna Business School, European Academy of Management, European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, European Marketing Academy, European Group for Organizational Studies, Membro dell’Albo dei Revisori per la valutazione dei programmi e dei prodotti di ricerca ministeriale (dal 2011)

- Co-Editor in Chief of International Journal of Fashion Studies

- Referee for Organization Science, Business Strategy and the Environment, European Journal of Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Circular Economy and Sustainability, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Global Fashion Marketing.

- Referee ANVUR- VQR (October 2012 - present).

- Guest Editor of ZoneModa Journal (International journal of cultural sociology - top-layer Italian Anvur Ranking), Issue on: “Rethinking fashion brands in the era of digital media” (2021).

- Scientific Committee of the Summer School in "Fashion and Creativity" (UNIBO) (2014, 2015, 2016).

- Scientific Committee of the Marconi Institute for Creativity for the "MIC Conference on Creativity" (2013, 2016).

- Member of the Commissione Paritetica of the School of Management and Economics (UNIBO).

- Scientific advisor for the agreement between UNIBO and Centergross S.r.l. (2017-18)

- University delegate for relations with the Fashion Research Italy Foundation.

TEACHING ACTIVITY

- Academic Year 2006/07 - present: Strategic Management (Undergraduate Degree), School of Economics, Management and Statistics (Rimini Campus), Università di Bologna.

- Academic Year 2013/14 - present: Corporate Strategy (Graduate Degree), School of Economics, Management and Statistics, Università di Bologna.

- Academic Year 2014/15 - present: Strategic Management for the Fashion System, (Graduate Degree in Fashion Culture and Management), School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage (Rimini Campus), Università di Bologna.

- Academic Year 2015/16 - present: Strategy and Marketing for Fashion Companies (Undergraduate Degree in Fashion Cultures and Techniques), School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage (Rimini Campus), Università di Bologna.

ADDITIONAL TEACHING ACTIVITY (MASTER COURSES):

- 2023 - present: PhD class "The nature, boundaries and growth of the firm"

- 2016 - 2022: Strategic Management in the Fashion Companies, at Fashion Research Italy

- 2014 - present: Strategic Management, Business Modeling, Corporate Strategy at Bologna Business School

- 2008 - 2014: Introduction to Management, at SPISA (Fondazione Alma Mater), Università di Bologna.

PUBLICATIONS

Author of several articles, some of them in leading academic journals (rated 4*, 4 and 3 ABS) and of book chapters. Author of the books: "I confini dell’impresa di moda. Tra sviluppo interno e brand licensing", McGraw-Hill: Milano (2012); "La moda circolare. Prospettive teoriche ed evidenze empiriche" Aracne editrice: Roma (2023).

Author of articles accepted and presented in meetings and conferences such as: EGOS Conference, Euram Conference, MIC Conference, Academy of Management Meeting (AoM), Creativity and Creative Industries Workshop (University of Brighton), Strategic Management Society Conference; Cass Knowledge Workshop (Cass Business School); Marketing Science Conference; EMAC Conference; EIASM Conference “RENT Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business”; Società Italiana di Marketing; AIDEA Giovani.

Leonardo Corbo is Associate Professor of Management (Department of Management) at the University of Bologna. Before joining the University of Bologna, he was Assistant Professor of Management at Católica Porto Business School. After earning his Ph.D. in Management from the U. of Bologna, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LUISS University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern U.), and Sauder School of Business (U. of British Columbia). Leonardo has been a Research Fellow at the LUISS Creative Business Center and the Service Management Lab (Católica Porto); he is a member of the Alma-AI center of the U. of Bologna. His research interests include alliances and networks, business model innovation, and start-ups. Leonardo regularly conducts research/consulting projects in various industries, including automotive, air transport, food, mobile payments, and logistics. Leonardo seats in the Editorial Boards of Long Range Planning and the Journal of Air Transport Studies. Besides academia, Leonardo worked in the marketing department at FIAT’s headquarters and in consulting at VVA.

Simone Ferriani is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Bologna, Honorary Professor at Cass Business School and Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University. Simone’s current research employs a mix of qualitative techniques and large datasets to study the social sources of innovation. In his current research, he works at the intersection of historical methods, lab experiments, and network analysis to study how the structure of evaluating audiences shapes the social valuation of novelty. His work has been published in various international outlets such as American Sociological Review, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Strategic Organization.

Riccardo Fini is Full Professor and coordinator of the Ph.D. programme in Management at the University of Bologna. He has visiting appointments at Imperial College London (UK), Gent University (BE), and Nord University (NO). He serves as director of the entrepreneurship hub at Bologna Business School. He did research at Mines Paris, Case Western Cleveland, U. Bozen, Imperial College, and Danish Technical University. His research interests include entrepreneurship, science commercialization, and impact. He is a two-time recipient of the EU Marie Curie fellowship. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He's serving as associate editor for the Journal of Technology Transfer, and his research was featured in Il Sole24Ore, Nature, Times Higher Education, and The New York Times. He's a co-founder and CEO of the science-based spin-off Fieldrobotics.

Claudio Giachetti is Full Professor of Strategy at the Department of Management at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. He was Full Professor at the Department of Management of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where he also received his Ph.D. in Business. He was a visiting researcher at Bayes Business School in London, at the University of Zaragoza, and at Skema Business School, and received a master's degree in International Management at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. His primary research interests concern competitive dynamics in rapidly changing technological environments. Claudio's work has been published in various leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, and Global Strategy Journal. Claudio is Associate Editor for Business Research Quarterly and Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. Over the years, he has been consulting on corporate strategy, competitive analysis, and product innovation issues with various clients from the private sector.

Paola Giuri is Full Professor of Management at the University of Bologna. She also serves as Associate Dean for Professional Masters at the Bologna Business School.

Her research focuses on the economics and management of innovation, entrepreneurship, university-industry technology transfer, economic and strategic uses of patents, social innovation, and organizational change.

She coordinated and was responsible for several international research projects funded by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank.

She has published articles in several journals, including Research Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, R&D Management, Technological Forecasting, and Social Change, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, Industry and Innovation, and Frontiers in Psychology.

She was the recipient of the 2010 Richard R. Nelson Prize Award and the Best Paper Award at the Druid Summer Conference 2007.

Francesco Montani is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organization at the University of Bologna. He carries out his research in the field of organizational behavior and human resource management. He has been Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology at Université de Sherbrooke and, subsequently, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at Montpellier Business School and the International University of Monaco. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Organizational Behavior. His research interests embrace the analysis of the determinants and consequences of creativity and innovation in organizations, with reference to the relationships between creativity/innovation, socialization, well-being, mindfulness, and compassion at an individual, group, and organizational level. He is involved in national and international research projects and is the author of numerous international publications.

Chiara Orsingher is Full Professor of Marketing at the University of Bologna.  She is recognized internationally as a leading researcher in Service Marketing. Her research interests include service recovery, customer complaining behavior, customer satisfaction, customer experience, referral-reward programs, and meta-analysis.  She has published articles in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Academy of Management Perspectives, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, and  Journal of Service Management.

Emanuele Padovani is Full Professor in Public Management at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna. He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Ferrara in 2005. His main research areas concern the financial analysis of the local public sector (local authorities, regions, agencies, subsidiaries, etc.), management control in local public administrations and health care, measurement and management of performance in the public sector, and management of outsourcing in local public services. His research concerns both the domestic and the international context, where he prefers a comparative approach.

Gabriele Pizzi is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Bologna, and Scientific Director of the International Master in Marketing Management at Bologna Business School. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna, starting from 2013. In 2009 he spent a visiting period at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (US).

His research interests revolve around the effect of time and psychological distance on several relevant individual behaviors, such as individual judgments and intertemporal choices. His works have appeared, among the others, on the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, the Journal of Economic Psychology, Marketing Letters, the Journal of Service Research, and the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. .

Since 2020, he is the Scientific Director of the Observatory on Retail - Virtual Reality and Smart Sensors developed in partnership with Retail Institute Italy. His doctoral dissertation on the Temporal Pattern of Customer Satisfaction has received the 2009 First Runner-Up Award at the Fisher IMS & AMA SERVSIG Dissertation Proposal Competition in Tampa (FL) and his research has been awarded with a research grant from the Italian Marketing Society for his work on multi-channel marketing and with the Best Conference Paper from the Italian Marketing Society (2020). Gabriele has significant expertise in the implementation of experimental studies.

He is also Principal Investigator for a Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on the topic of "Retail Industry Demand Estimation"

Marcello Russo is Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Bologna and the Global MBA director at Bologna Business School in Italy and. He has been Visiting Scholar at Kedge Business School, France, and Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He is an expert on work-life balance, with a focus on what individual strategies and organizational factors can help individuals accomplish their ideal model of work-life balance, and it has been published in leading scholarly journals, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Annals.

Maurizio Sobrero, Ph.D. MIT, BS Università di Bologna, is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Bologna. He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books on the Economics and Management of Innovation, specifically focusing on inter-organizational collaborations, University-Industry relationships, corporate governance, and R&D investments. He has served as an expert in these matters in several Committees of different public, private, and governmental institutions.

Giuseppe Torluccio is a Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at the University of Bologna, Director of Yunus Social Business Center, Vice-president of the Grameen Italian Foundation, and member of the Scientific Committee of the University of Bologna “School of Excellence.” Research interests include theoretical and empirical issues in the economics of banking, credit risk models, internal ratings and Basel III, risk management, derivatives, debt instruments, relationship banking, SMEs' financing, innovation financing, R&D, treasury management, corporate governance in banking, FinTech, microfinance, and social business. The last relevant articles are published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Journal of Asset Management.

Laura Toschi is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management at the University of Bologna and Deputy Director of the Executive Master in Technology & Innovation Management at Bologna Business School.

At UNIBO, she received her Ph.D. in Management in 2009 and a Laurea in Management Engineering in 2004 (100/100 cum Laude). She has been a visiting scholar at Boston University (2008), SPRU (2011), University of Queensland (2017), and Queensland University of Technology (2020).

Her main research interests are environmental and social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and impact investing, sustainability transitions, innovation management, and technology transfer.

Her research outputs include publications in journals such as Research Policy, Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Venturing, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Small Business Journal, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Elisa Villani has been Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Management at the University of Bologna since December 2018. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Imperial College Business School since January 2017. Before joining the University of Bologna, she was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management at the Free University of Bolzano.

Francisco Javier Villarroel Ordenes (Ph.D. in Marketing, Maastricht University) is a Full Professor of Marketing at the University of Bologna. Francisco has experience teaching the courses Branding, Social Media Marketing, Performance Marketing, Analytics, and Text Mining at the Bachelor's, Master’s, and Ph.D. levels. His research revolves around branding, customer experience, and digital marketing, and it has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Retailing, among others. He currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Service Research, and the Journal of Business Research.

Marco Visentin is Associate Professor of Marketing. His research is broadly based in the Business to Business and Business to Consumer marketing, including managing the relationship with customers, and consumer behavior. His research also focuses on Corporate Responsibility, with an interest on the determinants of voluntary reporting and ethical communication of companies, and on creative industries including wine industry and fashion system. He published on Industrial Marketing Management, Industry and Innovation, Business Ethics A European Review, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of Sport Management and International Journal of Market Research.