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30 May 2023

International Call for Contemporary Generation On Shuffle EP

The proposal of the Luiss BS Records call focuses on the musical versatility of the contemporary generation. Through the selection of songs that range between different genres and styles, we want to highlight the artistic originality of the new talents. The result of the initiative will consist in the production and publication of an EP containing seven tracks by seven different artists, that will be given the opportunity to express themselves by uniting different influences and musical visions in the same project. The title "On Shuffle" refers to the concept of random playback: the songs of the EP, thanks to their variety, will therefore offer listeners the experience of reproducing tracks as if they were listening to a playlist in shuffle mode. The competition brings to life a new field of cultural innovation, aimed not only at training but also at supporting and identifying young authors nationally and internationally. All authors of Italian or foreign nationality - individually or in groups - who meet the following admission criteria can participate to the competition: • have not completed the thirty-seventh year of age by the call deadline set for 30 June 2023 • for groups, only one member can have already turned thirty-seven years of age by the deadline of the announcement Candidates can compete with only one song, necessarily unpublished, that must adhere to the theme of the competition. The seven selected songs will be produced within the Luiss BS Records studio and the artists will be assisted in the production phase by professionals of the sector and supported by the students of the Master in Management of Creative and Cultural Enterprises - Major in Music Business of the Luiss Business School S.p.A. The deadline for the submission of works nominated for the Award is set for 30 June 2023 no later than 12.00pm (Italian time). Participation is free. Please read the notice carefully. ENG DOWNLOAD THE ANNOUNCEMENT REGISTRATION FORM PARTICIPATION FORM

25 May 2023

International Higher Education at a time of Geopolitical Strife

A seminar organized by Luiss Business School Amsterdam in collaboration with Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) and European Association for International Education (EAIE) Higher education is a complex global enterprise. More than 220 million students study at some 23,000 higher education institutions worldwide. Universities are the single most important source of basic research worldwide, while at the same time educating millions for increasingly knowledge-based economies. The higher education enterprise has undergone dramatic and unprecedented change in the past 70 years—going from a relatively small elite sector to educating more than 70 percent of young people in wealthy countries and a third or more in most of the rest of the world. Massification has been the hallmark of higher education worldwide. At the same time, the global knowledge economy depends on universities for research, communication, and education. Higher education has also become more international. Recently, geopolitical tensions, health pandemics and climate change challenge higher education worldwide. In this seminar, we will address the development of international(ization of) higher education and the implications of geopolitical tensions. Professor Philip Altbach, a leading scholar in international higher education and founding director of the Boston College Center for International higher Education, will introduce the theme, followed by comments and discussions with other scholars and practitioners and the participants. Participants: Hans de Wit, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow, CIHE Piet Van Hove, President, EAIE Mathias Falkenstein, Professor of Practice in Higher Education Management, Luiss Business School Prof. Dr. Philip G. Altbach, Research Professor, Distinguished Fellow and Founding Director Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA Laura Rumbley, Associate Director Knowledge Development and Research, EAIE Jon Chew, from Navitas Stephen Orm, from StudyPortal Christof van Mol, Tilburg University WHEN: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 WHAT TIME? 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM CEST (including network cocktail) WHERE: Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub, Nieuwe Herengracht 103, 1011 RZ REGISTER 25/05/2023

Education seminar

10 May 2023

Join the Part-time MBA students in Milan and attend the Open Lesson "Marketing Communication in the Omnichannel Era"

On May 26th you are welcome to attend the Marketing lesson with Prof. De Angelis and the current Part-time MBA students. Experience what is like to live as an MBA student for a day! After the lesson, you can have a chat with MBA coordinators and current students and have all your questions answered! We look forward to see you in Milan! WHEN: May 26th 2023 WHERE: Via Massimo D'Azeglio, 3 Milan HOUR: 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Register now for the Open Lesson var d=document,w="https://tally.so/widgets/embed.js",v=function(){"undefined"!=typeof Tally?Tally.loadEmbeds():d.querySelectorAll("iframe[data-tally-src]:not([src])").forEach((function(e){e.src=e.dataset.tallySrc}))};if("undefined"!=typeof Tally)v();else if(d.querySelector('script[src="'+w+'"]')==null){var s=d.createElement("script");s.src=w,s.onload=v,s.onerror=v,d.body.appendChild(s);}

MBA Milan Part-time MBA

05 May 2023

September is around the corner! Discover our Full-time Masters and build your future with us!

Meet the Luiss Business School’s staff Join the webinar and discover Luiss Business School’s Full-time Masters in Italy and Europe. Find out which programme can help you strengthen your skills and accelerate your career path. Meet the Masters’ coordinators, the recruitment office, the career service and the international office to learn how our services can help you achieve your professional goals. The webinar will take place online on Thursday, June 15, 2023 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. CEST Participation in the event will exempt you from the admission fee of €75 for the next selection test dates: June 21-22 and July 5-6. WHEN: Thursday June 15, 2023 WHERE: Online TIME: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CEST For more information, contact us by writing to: recruitment@luissbusinessschool.it Registration is mandatory. REGISTER 05/05/2023

Master Full-time

19 April 2023

Discover our MBAs and meet our International Office

Join our Open Evening and explore the international exchange On May 10th 2023, join the MBA event to find out, with the support of our Staff, which MBA best fits your career goals. Let’s design your personalized growth project together! The event is a perfect chance to get a comprehensive overview of our MBAs: the Executive MBA, in Italian, on campus, designed for professionals, directors and entrepreneurs with at least seven years of work experience, starting in April 2024 the Part-time MBA, fully taught in English, on campus, aimed at middle-managers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals, starting in March 2024 in Rome and in November 2023 in Milan the Flex MBA, fully taught in English and designed for managers, entrepreneurs and young professionals with at least three years of work experience. Starting in October 2023 the MBA Full-time, fully taught in English, on campus, for young professionals with at least three years of relevant work experience. Starting in October 2023. The Programmes Coordinators with our Recruitment Staff will be available for a One – to – One and info sessions. With Luiss Business School MBA you will: develop a broad, heterogeneous, and professional network enjoy an international Faculty where you can meet top managers and professionals improve your soft skills such as leadership and communication boost your career with our personal coaching and international experience abroad. Keep in mind that your participation exempts you from the admission fee amounting at €105 if you apply for the next selection dates: May 18th - May 25th, 2023. WHEN: May 10th, 2023 WHERE: Luiss Business School, Villa Blanc, Via Nomentana 216, 00162 Rome TIME: from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM CEST Online Form - Open Evening MBA - 10 Maggio 2023

MBA

18 April 2023

Strategies and Business Models in the Metaverse

Strategies and Business Models in the Metaverse for Media, Entertainment & Sports The Metaverse is poised to change the way we live, work, and play, and it will have a significant impact on the media, entertainment, and sports industries. In this event, we will explore and discuss the paradigm shifts, economic systems, possible futures and technologies behind the Metaverse, including generative AI. In addition, we will discuss the potential business models and strategies that organizations can adopt to make the most of these new technologies. Whether you are in the sports, media, or entertainment industry, this event is an opportunity to learn about the latest academic insights and business developments regarding the Metaverse and how you can use them to your advantage. We will round up the evening with a panel discussion and industry cases, followed by a networking cocktail. Speakers: Strategies and Business Models in the Metaverse Joris Ebbers, Full Professor and Academic Dean Luiss Business School Amsterdam hub, Luiss Business School State of Play of the Metaverse Hylke Sprangers, University Lecturer, Non-executive board member Panelists: Rosella Passier, Captain of Marketing, KNVB Michael Guntenaar, Chief Tech and Digital, ID&T Boris van Bennekum, Lead Innovation Strategist, BNNVARA When? Wednesday, May 17th What time? 17:00 to 19:00 (20:00 including network cocktail) Where? Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub Nieuwe Herengracht 103 - 1011 RZ Amsterdam Fill in the form to confirm your presence. REGISTER 05/04/2023

Metaverse

11 April 2023

Become a leader of the future with the Luiss Business School Full-time Masters Programme

On May 3rd, 2023, from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM CEST Luiss Business School opens the doors of its campus in Rome to present the Full-time Masters. A unique opportunity to explore the Luiss Business School offer with more than 30 programs available in our 4 Hubs and two languages: English and Italian. During the Open Day, you will attend programme presentations held by our coordinators and meet the Luiss Business School recruiters who will give you all the information about the admission process, costs, facilities, and the possibility to apply for the Admission Fee exemption for the next selection date. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn more about the school and its values: register now for the presentation of the programme you are interested in. All the participants of the event will be exempted from the 75 Euros admission fee for the next selection dates: 11-12 and 25-26 May Register below, and you will receive a confirmation email. Where: Luiss Business School, Villa Blanc Campus, Via Nomentana 216, 00162 Rome When: May 3rd, 2023 Time: 4.00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST For any further information write to recruitment@luissbusinessschool.it Registration is required Online Form - JOIN OUR FULL-TIME MASTER OPEN EVENING | MAY 03RD, 2023 11/04/2023

Master Full-time

05 April 2023

Flex MBA

Join the Online Open lesson by prof. Silard on Organizational design and people management On April 18th join the Flex MBA students in an Open Lesson by Prof. Tony Silard. The session focuses on helping participants build their competences and skill toolkit as managerial professionals including strategic thinking, analytical skill, problem solving, diagnosing, planning, and execution ability. The approach requires to:1) think systematically and strategically about managing human assets. 2) understand what really needs to be done to implement these policies. Anthony Silard, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Leadership and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Leadership at Luiss Business School in Rome Register to receive the link to the Open Lesson! More on the Flex MBA:The Flex MBA is intended to pave the way for professionals, entrepreneurs and innovators who wish to boost their current career prospects, with a digital twist. As a self-paced Programme, the Flex MBA is predominantly delivered online to meet the requirements of worldwide professionals who wish to acquire an MBA without sacrificing work and personal space. With the boundless approach of online learning and the self-paced momentum of asynchronous learning, the Flex MBA is the latest result of the fusion between academics and digital transformation. 05/04/2023

Flex MBA

21 March 2023

Online Masterclass Day at Luiss Business School

Join our Online Masterclass Day and get a front row seat to lectures from Luiss Business School professors for free. This is the perfect opportunity to experience our school’s approach to education and to preview what it is like to become a Luiss Business School student. Each Masterclass will be followed by a Q&A session. This is what you’ve been waiting for! From the comfort of your own home, you will gain invaluable insights on topics such as: Global Health Management | Cultural Gaps & Educational Bridges in Healthcare The online session will offer the opportunity to meet the director of the Master and get an overview of Cultural Gaps & Educational Bridges which Healthcare and Lifesciences Organization may leverage in their search of higher standards of efficiency and value delivery. Lecturer: Luca Magni, Ph. D. Professor of Practice of the Luiss Business School Digital Entertainment Business | The Metaverse State of Play of the Metaverse The online session will provide an analysis of the metaverse from a tech & innovation perspective and how to reimagine the role of companies in the metaverse. The session also offers an overview of the anatomy of the metaverse, future scenarios, and metaverse strategies. Lecturer: Hylke Sprangers, University Lecturer and non-executive board member Business Models in the Metaverse The online session will offer the opportunity to meet the director of the Master and get an introduction into business models and strategies in/for the Metaverse based on past and current practices in the entertainment industry, using real life examples including Roblox. Lecturer: Joris Ebbers, Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luiss Business School and Academic Dean of Luiss Business School’s Amsterdam Hub Transformational Leadership | Positive Impact Mindset The online session uncovers the two fundamentally different mindsets present in business and highlights what it takes for a leader and for an organization to create a positive impact. It also unpacks the current issue of having to work together in situations of polarization and explores best practice case studies in how to overcome such challenges. Lecturer: Katrin Muff, Professor of Practice at the Luiss Business School Sign up for one or more of our Masterclasses and we’ll see you online! When? Friday, April 14th, 2023 What time? Global Health Masterclass | 12:00 – 13:00 Digital Entertainment Masterclass | 15:00 – 16:00 Transformative Leadership Masterclass | 16:30 – 17:30 Where? Online Fill in the form to confirm your presence. REGISTER 21/03/2023

Masterclass Day

20 March 2023

Open Evening | Discover how to boost your career | Full-time MBA & Coaching Service Presentation

On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm CEST, Luiss Business School will open the doors of its campus in Rome for an afternoon of presentations to discover the Full-time MBA growth paths and Coaching services. This is a unique opportunity to receive personalized advice that effectively meets your educational needs with high-profile solutions. The event will take place in the beautiful setting of Villa Blanc and will be an opportunity to meet our coordinators, coaches, and recruitment office. Come discover the coaching, a personal development methodology in which the coach supports and assists the coachee in achieving a specific personal or professional goal. Through a creative process, coaching stimulates reflection and inspires the maximization of personal and professional potential. The program is composed of a series of one-to-one interviews aimed at: • Identifying the goals to work on • Highlighting resources and obstacles to achieving the goals • Creating an action plan for support Join us to discover the next selection dates, financial aid, and scholarships offered. Register to receive all the information to participate. Where: Villa Blanc, Rome When: April 5th, 2023 Time: 5.00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST Registration is required Online Form - Recruitment Full-timeMBA

MBA full-time

20 March 2023

MBA Orientation Session

Meet our Staff and have a personalized info session On April 12th join the MBA event to find out, with the support of our Staff, which MBA best fits your career goals. Let’s design your personalized growth project together! The event is a perfect chance to get a comprehensive overview of our MBAs: the Executive MBA, in Italian, on campus, designed for professionals, directors and entrepreneurs with at least seven years of work experience, starting in April 2023 the Part-time MBA, fully taught in English, on campus, aimed at middle-managers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals, starting in March 2023 in Rome and in November 2023 in Milan the Flex MBA, fully taught in English and designed with Insendi platform for managers, entrepreneurs and young professionals with at least three years of work experience. Starting in October 2023 the MBA Full-time, fully taught in English, on campus, for young professionals with at least three years of relevant work experience. Starting in October 2023. The MBA Area Director and the programme coordinators with our Recruitment Staff will be available for a One – to – One and info sessions. With Luiss Business School MBA you will: Develop a broad and heterogeneous and professional network Enjoy an international Faculty where you can meet top managers and professionals Improve your soft skills such as leadership and communication Boost your career with our personal coaching and international experience abroad WHERE: Villa Blanc, Via Nomentana 216, 00166, Rome, Italy. DATE: April 12th, 2023 TIME: 05:00 – 06:30 P.M. Online Form - Sessione di orientamento MBA | MBA Orientation Session

MBA

07 March 2023

Book Launch: Learnable Theory & Analysis | 23rd March 2023

Book Launch and presentation of Open Research Units at Luiss Business School Learnable Theory & Analysis is a book resulting from a study that Luca Magni, Giorgio Marchetti and Ahlam Alharbi have accomplished in one year of close collaboration as Members of the Open Research Unit of Learnable and Metaphors Operative Analysis of Luiss Business School. The launch of the book offers the opportunity to illustrate how developments in Neurosciences are strengthening the link that connects Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, and many Socio-Economical Sciences, including Management and Business Studies. Join us to learn more about the goals and opportunities that present and future Open Research Units at Luiss Business School intend to pursue and how you can get involved. When? Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 What time? From 14:30 to 18:30 Where? Luiss Business School – Amsterdam Hub – Nieuwe Herengracht 103 – 1011 RZ Amsterdam and Online, via WebEx Fill in the form to confirm your presence. REGISTER DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THE BOOK 07/03/2023

Book presentation

06 March 2023

Open Evening | Executive Education Luiss Business School

The Luiss Business School’s programmes for professionals delivered in our hubs in Rome, Milan, and Belluno On March 29th, 2023, Luiss Business School hosts the Open Evening to present the Executive Education offered at the Campus in Rome, Milan, and Belluno. This event is a great opportunity to receive a personalized consultancy capable of responding effectively to educational needs with high-profile solutions compatible with any job. It is also a chance to meet our coordinators, coaches, and recruitment office in the Villa Blanc's beautiful setting, and to know more about Luiss Business School Educational offers. Join us to discover more about the upcoming admission test dates, financial facilities, scholarships offered, and the international mobility opportunities. Those attending the event will be exempted from paying the admission fee for the next two selection dates in April 2023, if any. Register below, and you will receive a confirmation email. Where: Villa Blanc, Rome When: March 29th, 2023 Time: 5.00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CEST Registration is required Online Form - Open Evening - 29 marzo

Executive Education

02 March 2023

Last Call for the Part-time MBA!

Transform your world. Move further with your career Join the Part-time MBA presentation event that will be held on March 6th, 2023, at 05:00 p.m. CEST to discover a personalized study journey to take your managerial career to the next level with Luiss Business School. During the event, the Recruitment Staff will be available to show you how the 18-month international Part-time MBA, can change your career. Designed for working professionals, managers and entrepreneurs, the programme is built around the concepts of Hyper-Personalisation, Business Impact and Innovation. Registration is required. WHERE: On Campus, Villa Blanc, Via Nomentana 216, 00162, Rome, Italy WHEN: March 06TH, 2023 TIME: 05:00 p.m. CEST Online Form - Last Call for the Part-time MBA!

Part-time MBA

02 March 2023

Meet us in the upcoming QS Fairs

Discover the Full-time Masters and unleash your potential Participate in the QS Fair to discover the business Masters’ programmes offered by Luiss Business School in Italy and Europe. Come and talk with our Recruitment Staff to find out which Full-time Master from our portfolio will fit your career goals The QS Fair will be present in 4 Italian cities: March 4th in Rome; March 6th in Turin; March 7th in Milan and March 9th in Naples. During the event you will have the opportunity to learn what makes Luiss Business School’s Masters a unique and life-changing experience! WHERE: Rome | QS Masters Tour - March 4th, 2023. Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & SPA Via Saverio Mercadante 15 00198, Rome, Italy. Turin | QS Masters Tour - March 6th, 2023. Starhotels Majestic Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 54 10123, Turin, Italy. Milan | QS World Grad School Tour - March 7th, 2023. Palazzo delle Stelline Corso Magenta, 61 20123 Milan, Italy. Naples | QS Masters Fair - March 9th, 2023. Hotel Royal Continental Via Partenope 38/44 80121, Naples, Italy. WHEN: Rome, March 4th Turin, March 6th Milan, March 7th Naples, March 9th For more information contact us at: recruitment@luissbusinessschool.it 02/03/2023

Full-time Master

23 February 2023

Reach the Peak through our Top-ranked university Masters!

Discover the Luiss Business School international programmes and its Hubs based in Europe On March 16, 2023, Luiss Business School will present online its Master’s Programmes and Hubs based in Rome, Milan, and Amsterdam! The event will help you identify the master’s degree that can boost your career path. It will be an opportunity to join an immersive experience designed for you to explore courses, faculty, labs, services, international exchange opportunities. Luiss Business School’s master coordinators, career service, international office and recruitment staff will provide useful information about the admission process, tuition fee waivers, scholarships, and admission fee exemption for the next two selection dates. Please choose your master and register to the event. Looking forward to chatting with you! WHERE: Online WHEN: March 16th, 2023 TIME: 04:00 p.m. – 05:30 p.m. CEST Please check the registration form below. Online Form - Join our Full-time Master Webinar | March 16th, 2023

Master

31 May 2022

Mario Mazzuoccolo: «The Master at Luiss Business School, a unique opportunity to be “seen”»

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

23 May 2022

How to manage secondary trauma among healthcare workers

The Covid–19 pandemic has complicated lives in healthcare organizations. A meeting at Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub examines how leaders must face secondary trauma and its effects The Covid–19 pandemic has changed all the work life balance of healthcare workers and exacerbated the long–lasting phenomenon of post–traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in this field. Hospitals were reorganized. Treatments for patients have been stopped. Operations have been canceled. Nurses were relocated. Teams were not cohesive anymore. Managing these situations is a challenge worldwide as healthcare workers are likely to experience acute and chronic, often unpredictable, occupational stress leading to PTSS. Mental life wellbeing is a concept that more often returns in leadership discussions. During the event Secondary Trauma Challenges Impacting the Healthcare Ecosystem, Dr. Anthony Silard, Associate Professor of Leadership and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Leadership, Luiss Business School, explored effective approaches to identify and improve post–traumatic stress symptoms. Special emphasis has been given to the role that managers and leaders play in helping health employees to process secondary trauma and restoring a healthier working environment. What is secondary trauma and how to tackle it Secondary trauma is challenging the healthcare ecosystem. “Also known as vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue, secondary trauma refers to an emotional state in which a focal person experiences the pain, distress, sadness or other negative emotion of a second person” (Parker & Henfield, 2012). This happens at three levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal and organizational. Healthcare work can be challenging, especially in the domain of managing emotions. In healthcare organizations, employees might pay a considerable emotional toll in helping individuals living with primary or personal trauma emanated from life-threatening situations such as crime, violence, imbued clients poverty, illness and natural disasters. Over the past few decades, the term "secondary trauma" or "vicarious trauma" has evolved to depict the distressing emotional state an individual is likely to experience due to protracted interaction with a second person experiencing primary trauma. There are 5 primary emotions in human life: anger, sadness, joy, fear and love. Each of them leads to secondary emotions in the person who is experiencing the first one and in others. It requires deep resources to cope with these feelings. «Secondary trauma is our most toxic emotion because it arises from a loss of hope», said Silard. The emotion prototype approach provides a useful organization framework for discrete emotions. Whether related to primary trauma or secondary traumatic stress/vicarious trauma (STS/VT), stress symptoms and effects are very similar and can significantly impact individuals, teams and organizations. A large body of evidence exists which links such events to associated mental health issues among healthcare workers. As healthcare personnel perform their job duties – which might involve displaying care, empathy and compassion for trauma-affected clients – they put themselves at high risk of incurring secondary trauma. This challenges organizational lever for retention and recruitment. How do leaders manage changing emotions If a team is experiencing a primary trauma, then leaders can receive some of it and develop secondary trauma. At interpersonal level, they can manage it. The leader emotion management (LEM) is concerned with “the processes and behaviors involved in assisting employees in regulating their emotion experiences so as to facilitate the attainment of organizational objectives” (Kaplan et al., 2014:566). LEM behaviors will respond to the needs of employee with secondary trauma experiences. First, leaders must display empathy, and acknowledge and validate team member secondary trauma experience. «Secondary trauma exists, believe it or not», said Silard. LEM behaviors that improve secondary trauma consist of facilitating staff emotion regulation abilities; fostering follower post–traumatic growth; modeling emotion complexity. Still, there is a silver lining of secondary trauma: it may help both staff experience and the organizations for which they work. The Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG), such as the one experienced after Covid pandemic, leads to be more open to new experiences; value themselves more; reevaluate their life priorities, goals, relationships and spirituality; might prepare for future adversities. In a trauma–informed management strategy, leaders must be compassionate companions. Compassionate companionship behaviors support the trauma and encourage growth; help the other person back up from the tree and see the forest; don't fall into the problem person/solution person false dichotomy; meet their vulnerability with your own. The organization level is about policies and getting people together, around the trauma debrief. «Create an emotional processing culture, an authentic climate where people can express their emotions», suggests Silard. How to manage secondary trauma in healthcare organizations In a roundtable led by Luca Magni, Professor of Practice, Luiss Business School; Scientific Director of the Executive Programme in International Pharma and Healthcare Administration, Luiss Business School, has been discussed how to manage secondary trauma in healthcare organizations. «We had a huge global experiment: Covid pandemic – said J. A. Hans Romijn, Professor of Medicine, University of Amsterdam; Internist, Former Chairman and Dean of Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam; Coordinator of the merger of the two UMCs in Amsterdam – It required a whole reorganization of hospitals. Treatments of patients have been stopped. Nurses were relocated. Teams were not cohesive anymore. There were running out of material, fear of getting sick. People were dying without their families. This has led to a large amount of stress». «Starting from secondary trauma, the question must be: is the world ready to create compassionate enterprises? – asked Laura Mckeaveney, Patient Advocacy Expert, with relevant experiences in multiple corporate roles, the latest being the one of Global Head of Patient Advocacy, Novartis – We have so much journey to travel to get to more humanistic organization, even if we need to do profit». «Language has an important task – says Daniele Raugi, Head Global HR Corporate Functions & Europe, Sanofi – We must normalize talking about feelings. Covid forces organization to look at the whole human being. Leadership has been evolving and the role of the leader is changing they must develop and grow people. It goes from empowerment to be authentic. As a leader, you create the right environment». 5/23/2022

pharma

15 April 2022

Domenico Crescenzo: «Me, a servant leader thanks to the MBA Luiss Business School»

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

17 March 2022

Why Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub is the answer for your upskilling

Choosing an executive programme abroad is the starting point to enhance one’s career. Here’s why Amsterdam is the place to be Health and pharma, sustainability, fashion and luxury, regional headquarters of global companies, an abundance of tech start-ups, and the international gateway to Europe: there are many reasons to start a programme at the Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub. Enrolling for an executive programme is a way to improve your skills, expand your network and boost your career. Joris Ebbers, Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Academic Dean of the Amsterdam Hub, explains why in Amsterdam you can find the key to revolutionize your career. Work and education: what are the main trends in Amsterdam? A first trend regards data analytics and AI, which are important, especially in combination with business and statistical skills. Professionals need understand the value of data, how they can be analysed, and how they can support the business. A second trend is sustainability and circular economy management. Because of potentially irreversible environmental trends, such as resource scarcity and pollution, the challenge is how we can be as economic as possible with our planet’s resources, by using as little as possible and reusing as much as we can, and lower our dependence on non-renewable fossil energy. A third trend is health, pharma, and biotech, due to the large Covid crisis. After the Brexit, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of the E.U. moved from London to Amsterdam. This has further accelerated the development of a strong health, pharma, and biotech cluster around Amsterdam, with companies originating from many different countries around the world. Which are the key points of the Luiss Business School Hub in Amsterdam? There are a couple of focus areas. One of them is creativity, which is of crucial importance in relation to artificial intelligence (AI). AI is very good at answering specific questions. However, we need creativity to produce valuable questions that we want AI to answer. For professionals, it is therefore very important to be aware of the need for human creativity, be more creative themselves, and learn how to manage creativity in organizations. That is why Luiss Business School in Amsterdam has a specific focus on creativity, creative skills, and creative leadership skills. But creativity also means entrepreneurship. In addition, we need entrepreneurship to translate and transform new questions into valuable business opportunities. It is all about developing winning new business models that can solve problems or satisfy (latent) needs. For this, professionals also need leadership skills: you must have these skills to be sure that the organization is aware of the opportunities and threats it is facing, and support the organization to continuously adapt. For this, you not only need to foster creativity and entrepreneurship but also organizational change management skills. What are other reasons for studying at Luiss Business School’s Amsterdam Hub? Amsterdam is a great city for business. The Netherlands is very well connected because of infrastructures like the harbour in Rotterdam (#1 in Europe) and Amsterdam airport (#3 in Europe).. In addition, but only few people know that Amsterdam is one of the biggest Internet exchanges in the world (#3 in Europe). A lot of the Internet traffic goes through the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) . As a consequence, there are lots of economic activities around data and cloud computing In addition, Amsterdam has a strong start-up ecosystem and is rising quickly on global startup rankings of best places to start or locate new companies. Besides regulatory reasons, and the fact that many Dutch people speak English, this is also related to the presence of AMS-IX. This has facilitated a powerful mix between tech and start-ups, including local successes Adyen and Booking. Why choose an international executive programme to improve one's skills? Focusing on executive education is very important. The world changes, so you must improve your skills, increase your knowledge, and meet other people of your industry from who you can learn. A lot of the learning in executive educational happens through peers who share their experiences. Through that, you will automatically build a network, which a very important aspect. As regards the international aspect, it is important to cross borders and meet other cultures. Finally, because of the considerable number of big companies moving their regional (EMEA) headquarters to Amsterdam especially after Brexit, attending a programme here, at the Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub, is an excellent choice which leads to new opportunities. Discover more about the executive education Luiss Business School at Amsterdam Hub.Join the Virtual Open Day on April 5th. REGISTER

executive

08 February 2022

Giancarlo De Vuono Di Luca: «Take calculated risks and go out of your comfort zone with the Luiss Business School MBA»

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

13 January 2022

Michaela Nelson: «Luiss Business School showed me how to be a leader»

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

05 October 2021

The evolution of the pharmaceutical sector between digital transformation and new regulatory processes

We thank HBR Italia for the report about the two "CEO Round tables" which took place during the kick off of the “Executive Programme in International Pharma and Healthcare Administration” with the participation of: Pierluigi Antonelli, CEO Angelini, Silvio Belletti, Partner BCG, Elcin Barker Ergun, CEO Menarini Group, Ugo Di Francesco, CEO Chiesi, Deborah Dunsire, CEO Lundbeck, Eriona Gjinukaj, COO Dompé, Jens Grueger, Director and Partner BCG & President ISPOR, Jordi Llinares Garcia[1], Work Stream Head at European Medicines Agency, Gianfranco Nazzi, CEO Almirall, Guido Rasi, Professor of Microbiology, Tor Vergata University, chair by Luca Magni, Professor of Practice Luiss Business School. The full version of the article is now available in English. The new "CEO Round table" will be held with the start of the second edition of the programme on October 19, 2021. The Impact of the pandemic on the pharmaceutical sector and the relationship between innovation and regulation: two of the hottest topics on the table of the CEOs of the pharmaceutical sector were discussed in the two panels organized by the Luiss Business School to present the first edition of the Executive Program in International Pharma and Healthcare Administration. The debates, introduced by Silvio Belletti and Jens Grueger, Partner of the Boston Consulting Group, were attended by main exponents of the Italian and world industry, and moderated by Luca Magni, Professor of Practice Luiss Business School. During the first of the two panels, attended by Pierluigi Antonelli, CEO of Angelini, Ugo di Francesco, CEO of Chiesi and Deborah Dunsire, CEO of Lundbeck, as well as Guido Rasi, professor of microbiology and former director of AIFA and EMA, we discussed how the pandemic has impacted the operational dynamics of the pharmaceutical sector, focusing on three main themes, introduced by Silvio Belletti (BCG): the interaction between companies and doctors, the regulatory dynamics and clinical development, smart working. Company-doctor interaction: towards a new-generation Customer Engagement The pandemic first blocked and then reduced for several months the visits of scientific informants to doctors, forcing companies to reinvent the way to interact with prescribers, leveraging virtual instruments. If it is true that, as a BCG survey shows, more than 50% of doctors expects or hopes that the relationship between virtual and face-to-face interactions will remain the one seen during the pandemic, it is also true, as Deborah Dunsire pointed out, that "personal promotion and face-to-face interactions remain crucial, especially when it comes to promoting a new drug being launched". For this, Pierluigi Antonelli hoped for "the transition to a hybrid model", also stressing that it is "crucial that the development of digital skills is not limited to the sales force but involves the whole organization". Ugo Di Francesco is also on the same wavelength, highlighting how "the adoption of a digital-oriented business model has reached different levels of maturity depending on the geographical areas", much more advanced in China and the United States, than in Europe. Dunsire and Di Francesco also underlined how it is essential that pharmaceutical companies exploit the digital opportunity to promote contents that are as tailor-made and personalized as possible, in order to maximize the doctor's customer experience and to express the commercial resolve in greater returns for companies. Regulatory dynamics: new scenarios, but Europe risks being left behind Just as the pandemic has impacted the interactions between business and physician, the world of clinical development has also seen significant changes along at least two main directions. In the first place, with COVID the so-called virtual trials have doubled, that is to say those clinical studies where the recruitment of patients and/or the evaluation of the results take place remotely. Also, the pandemic and the vaccine rush have shown the possibility of significantly shortening the development and approval times of drugs (typically above 5 years). It will now be essential to understand whether these accelerated development and approval timelines (which depend on various factors, including greater involvement of regulators in the development phases, parallelization of the same and the use of surrogate endpoints) can become the rule and not remain an exception due to the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19. In this regard, Professor Rasi underlined how it is "more difficult for this to happen in Europe than in the United States". The reason, however, would not be due to a more "conservative" approach by EMA compared to the FDA, but rather to the "difficulty in bringing together 27 member States in which a culture typically averse to risk prevails". Smart working: towards a hybrid model Finally, the round table focused on the issue of remote working, a particularly hot topic in this moment of transition from a due smart working to desired smart working. As Antonelli pointed out, "even before COVID, hypotheses for the introduction of remote work were being studied" and, from this point of view, "the pandemic represented a sort of forced test that highlighted the strengths but also the limits of this model ". While it is true that the logistical advantages are out of the question (provided that employees are equipped with adequate tools), it is also true that collaboration and innovation risk to be, if not compromised, at least limited. Consequently, as shared by Dunsire and Francesco, the need to "define hybrid models that allow you to benefit from the advantages of working from home without this translating into abandonment of the offices", which must remain the beating heart of the company's life, or the “backbone”, as Antonelli defined it. Keeping up is essential Rather than creating the need for a change, therefore, the pandemic has brought out needs that in a certain sense were already latent, imposing the need for companies in the sector to know how to reinvent themselves quickly and accelerating the introduction of new operating models, with a strong push on the digital element. The ability of companies to be able to seize this challenge in the required timeframes and in the best ways will be fundamental to obtain an advantage over competitors and, on the one hand, to capture market growth in the post "rebound" phase COVID and, on the other hand, be prepared for long-term challenges. The second roundtable hosted Elcin Barker Ergun, CEO of Menarini, Eriona Gjinukaj, COO of Dompé, Gianfranco Nazzi, CEO of Almirall and Jordi Llinares, Head of the Research and Innovation Department of EMA, spoke. The introduction by Belletti and Grueger focused on how innovation in the pharmaceutical sector has been the protagonist of the last decade. Just think, for example, that the drugs for rare diseases approved every year in the United States ranged between 50 to more than 300, or that the market for "novel modalities" (such as, for example, gene therapies), which currently has revenues of approximately $ 3 billion, should increase its value tenfold in less than 5 years. Despite a wave of innovation, which has made it possible to obtain results that were unthinkable until a few years ago from a clinical point of view, there are still several obstacles that complicate the approval processes or market access for new drugs. USA and Europe: the numbers and the reasons for the gap As shown by a study by the Boston Consulting Group, of the 220 drugs approved by the FDA in the United States between 2015 and 2019, only 97 were also approved in Europe and only in 22% of the cases this happened with shorter deadlines than in the United States. For Eriona Gjinukaj "especially small and medium-sized companies in Europe encounter difficulties in obtaining approval from the regulatory body". This requires a "greater flexibility in the evaluation of data relating to medicines that are administered to patients who often, without a cure, they would risk losing their lives”. Jordi Llinares was also on the same wavelength, underlining that in Europe there would be "a cultural reluctance to collaborate between regulatory bodies, pharmaceutical companies and key opinion leaders in the clinical development phase, attributable above all to fears of possible conflicts of interest for the latter”, which would result in an inevitable slowdown in the approval times for drugs. It is also interesting to note, as highlighted by Elcin Barker, that the gap between Europe and the USA is not only registered in terms of drug approval times, but also in the access times to individual national markets. In fact, if it is true that in some European countries, such as Germany, "it is preferred to allow patients immediate access to the drug, solving the issues related to price and reimbursement at a later time", there are other national realities where instead the opposite happens, and “a long negotiation on prices heavily slows down the entry on the market of even highly innovative drugs”. In this sense, Gianfranco Nazzi stressed "the need to work together to find a solution that has a financial basis and that allows the problem to be solved". Outcome-based models and the role of digital: a long but inevitable road The discussion then moved on to how satisfy the need for payers to keep costs under control and, at the same time, guarantee the highest level of quality of care, with outcome-based reward models, which provide a reimbursement linked to the success of the therapy. In this sense, Eriona Gjinukaj reiterated how for some time the industry has been trying to propose outcome-based models, which however "clash with the complexity of large-scale management even in countries - such as Italy - which have been the front line since several years". To this end, according to Grueger it is fundamental "to work on a common model among all European countries", which potentially leverages - as Llinares hypothesized - on a "federation of European databases that uses data of type real world” to facilitate the adoption of outcome-based payment systems. Emerging Countries: political instability undermines efforts towards advanced regulatory systems The final parenthesis on emerging countries is also very interesting: if for Europe the fundamental issue is to close the gap with the United States in terms of flexibility of regulatory processes and marketing access, in emerging countries " several drugs are not even available and the regulatory agencies are poorly structured and not very transparent”, underlined Gianfranco Nazzi. According to Jordi Llinares, "there have been efforts at a global level to create a sort of" African EMA "and the EMA itself has entered into bilateral agreements with various developing countries to strengthen the skills of local regulatory bodies". Political instability, however, weighs like a boulder on the attempts to carry out these projects and to bring emerging countries in step with the more economically developed ones. Renew regulatory processes to capture innovation A situation in which, as Silvio Belletti pointed out, innovation grows at a much higher rate than GDP, witnesses the difficulty in being able to capture the value of innovation itself. To reverse the trend, it therefore becomes essential to renew the regulatory processes, simplifying them and aligning them, as far as possible, with US best practice. Shorter approval and access times, collaboration between companies, key opinion leaders and regulatory bodies even during clinical trials, outcome-based models that reward products with the greatest impact on patients' health: the challenges are not lacking, it's up to Europe collect them and direct them towards creating a success story. [1] With great sadness we join the grief of family, friends and colleagues for the sudden and unexpected passing away of Jordi Llinares Garcia. 10/5/2021

Amsterdam Fashion Academy pharma

07 September 2021

Be a change leader: the post-Covid challenge of the Luiss Business School

This is the main goal addressed by Matteo Caroli, Associate Dean for internationalization, during the Graduation Day with the students of the international Masters: «It's your time to inspire». «You can achieve everything in life if you don't give up»: is the message of the student Jolda Tomani, during the Valedictorian Speech. «It's time to become change-agents». With this advice Matteo Caroli, Associate Dean for internationalization of the Luiss Business School, hailed the Graduation Day of the students of the nine international masters, edition 2018/2019. In the post-Covid world, while we're facing the effects of the pandemic on our economy and society, being a change leader, a person who can inspire personal and professional communities, will be a key factor for the years to come. «It's time to become change-agents in the evolution of your organizations and time to adapt yourself to the frequent changes and transformations», said professor Caroli, who recollected all the stages of the long path walked by the students. They improved their skills and acquired new ones, expanded their network and, by the end, they had «the opportunity to grow». Graduation Day is the final step in this educational path, but it is also «the starting point» for their personal and professional future development. This complex, dynamic and challenging environment requires change agents who can also be leaders of this New Normal time. Thus, Luiss Business School believes that «education is much more than what you learn; it is about how you think and how you act. Our daily commitment is to develop passionate and inspiring leaders who believe growth and entrepreneurship are essential to achieve great results». «Being here showed me that you can achieve everything in life if you don't give up – said Jold Tomani, student of Risk management and insurance, during the Valedictorian Speech. – After finishing my bachelor’s degree in Albania in Business Administration, I decided that I had to find an opportunity to attend the master abroad or not to do the master at all: being accepted with a full scholarship taught me that if you want something, you have to try and don't give up». Living abroad, without friends who speak your language and share the same culture, makes students grow in many ways and let them change their mindset. Thanks to all the experiences shared by professors and successful leaders, students can learn how to translate vision into reality. «The most important thing that I've gained from the master is the development of the soft skills – continued Tomani, who dedicated the degree to her father – I do believe that it is very important to strengthen the hard skills and doing the best in what you do. But if you don't have the soft skills to cooperate and communicate effectively with others, even the best product won't be sold. And the best product is ourselves». The Luiss Business School Alumni become ambassadors in all professional communities, in Italy and abroad. This is powered by the “Connect” community, an exclusive network platform where the Luiss Business School Alumni have the chance to keep on talking with their peers and colleagues, matching with new professional opportunities. Starting from the Graduation Day every is welcome to “Connect”, where all the photos of the ceremony are now available. Register now! 9/7/2021

Talents

06 August 2021

MBA Career Day(s) 2021

Not a conventional job fair: Luiss Business School reinvented the career days for the MBA students within a hybrid framework. More than 90 interviews were conducted alternatively in Luiss Business School headquarter Villa Blanc or remotely, involving 15 companies and 30 interviewers. This flexible formula allowed us to overcome the restrictions due to the post-pandemic period, and to ensure our students all the opportunities of the network of the School. This initiative is arranged in a series of individual interviews with HR managers. Therefore, each student has the opportunity to understand how his/her profile may fit with specific company needs. It is the beginning of the placement phase: good luck to #LuissBusiness MBA students! 8/6/2021

Talents

04 August 2021

Dalia Caterino: «The real boost for my career? Competencies, competition and soft skills»

The Luiss Business School values cannot be counted only thanks to its educational offer, but mainly through the people who passed through our classrooms, collecting excellency in their professional path. This is the story of Dalia Caterino, Creative Office Library & Vintage at Gucci, for #MyLuissBusiness series A study of the World Economic Forum reveals that 65 per cent of children attending primary school, in future will hold job roles not existing yet. Dalia Caterino, alumna of Fashion and Luxury Business – Major of the Master in Fashion, Luxury and Tourism Management at Luiss Business School - proves it: nowadays she works in the Design Department Team at Gucci, in Rome offices, especially dedicated to the Creative Office Library & Vintage. During an interview for a vacancy in the Communication Department, Dalia told her experience carried out in the Design Department at Valentino, an opportunity achieved through the Master, and she caught the eye of her Recruiters: they allowed her to adapt her skills to a professional role supporting designers in the creative process. After a Laurea Triennale in Moda e Costume (comparable to a Bachelor of Art in Fashion, *not) at La Sapienza University in Rome, Dalia has chosen our School’s Master in Fashion & Luxury to enhance her education. Nowadays, she is 28, an alumna in the true sense of the term: «Every time I am telling about my path in Luiss, I always keep a light in my eyes». Educational offer, focus on language competencies, and soft skills developed during courses: these are Dalia’s acceleration factors in the fashion world. Dalia Caterino, why did you chose Luiss Business School? I had already got positive feedbacks by other people, who had chosen it for their education. Actually, I had compared Luiss’ program with similar proposals from other universities, but ever since I participated to the Open Day, I have been charmed by meeting the Professors. Which do you think to be the strengths of the master in Fashion & Luxury? The focus on English language: I think it is fundamental for fashion industry. When started, despite my English level was high, I was a little bit awed: anyway, the master allowed me to boost my English. The comparison with people belonging to different cultures has been really valuable: in my class, we were 17. Moreover, the educational curriculum – wide, but not generalized – convinced me: every aspect would have been examined in detail and not generally treated. Along the path, this helped me to understand what I really wanted to do in my life. How? When attending a master for the fashion industry, where roles are many and various, it is difficult to pinpoint the most specific ones. Thanks to this master I have been driven towards the understanding on where-to-be in the next future. How much important has it been the development of soft skills declared in the curriculum? I used to be an introverted person: thanks to the master, I have been able to step forward. Comparing oneself, not only with the Professors, but also with Professionals, it represents a bit of what is going to happen outside the comfort zone. Too often, the main scare of young people is not being able to measure up: we are often said not to have studied enough, or not to be adequate experts about a certain topic. I believe that with Luiss Business School masters instead, thanks to its wide but curated educational offer, it is possible to seize the necessary. There is no redundancy. The most significant moments of your path in Luiss Business School: what have they been? The final exam, where we managed to put in practice what we have been learning. It is about teamworking: you must match your ideas with those of other team members, but you must also compete. This last point is very important: without it, you cannot grow. It allows to overcome one’s own limits: otherwise, you do not get out of the comfort zone. Another important activity is the on-site visits to corporates’ headquarters. What do you remember about such experience? Above all the visit at the Design Department at Valentino’s headquarters in Rome marked my path. Over there, we have visited their historical archive. Along the interview aimed at the internship within Gucci, I told the recruiters about such experience. This pushed them to offer me the position I currently hold, even though I had applied for another role within the company. What position have you applied for? I wanted to work in the Communication and Public Relations Department. By the way, through soft skills labs, and courses aimed at analyzing them, I realized that what is generally told about the world of fashion is a bit misleading: nobody tells you what you’re really going to do, what the real job is. It is possible to dream about a non-existent role. Hearing from the Communication Director of Alexander McQueen has been very useful: he helped us to understand what are the underlaying mechanisms of this role. I have always tried to observe and learn from professors, from professionals, but also from colleagues. Till today, I have never stopped myself thinking about where I am. I have been dreaming to join Gucci since I was younger, and I have got it, but in a job role I didn't know existed. What did bring you to such awareness? We must have a goal in our lives, to be reached with little steps, concentrating on what we are doing into the here and now; on what we can bring with us in the future. You work in the Style Library & Vintage Office at Gucci: what do you do, in detail? My Team works on library management, supporting the designers in the initial development of the collection, and to the Vintage management, which is part of the company’s property. It is a cross-sectional position to the whole Design Department. In two years and a half the position has been growing a lot: in other companies, it does not exist. My and my boss are shaping it on our desires, on the company’s exigencies too, and I feel to be growing a lot. I firmly believe that part of this merit is due to the trail I have walked within Luiss’ walls. Coming from Luiss world, has it represented a plus in entering the professional world? Have you noticed any difference? Absolutely yes. Luiss Business School is a nationally and internationally recognized institution. You are constantly in touch with the world of practice, and this makes the difference. Without a specialization I wouldn’t have been able to deal with it, even if I had been the most prepared person in the world. Apparently, the world of luxury and fashion seems to be less masculine than other ones, but in holding certain job roles, difficulties persist. Being a woman, and the educational path carried out in Luiss, have they helped you to build up an armor? Yes, they have: in comparing each other in the classroom, but also soft skills labs have been very helpful. The Design Department represents a challenging reality: it constitutes the fashion world at its utmost. The master helped me to get stronger. Playing the game and competing with others: they give a higher self-confidence and help to overcome some barriers, demonstrating the real oneself, without feeling disadvantaged just because women. In the future, do you ever think to carry on building up yourself in the field, or would you rather “go back to school” to acquire new skills? I would rather do it right now! I graduated at the master two-and-a-half years ago, and I soon started working at Gucci. But I am very curious, I love learning and I would appreciate diving back to coursework. Fashion is not the same as 20 years ago. There are many topics – sustainability and innovation, among others – which are changing the governance of many corporates. How is Gucci juggling this? When it comes to environment and sustainability, Gucci is the first one to expose itself. Within the Design Department, we keep ourselves updated about such topics. When working in fast-paced environments, you do not have much time to keep up-to-date, and it is very positive when your workplace pushes you to get informed and educated. You have also been a mentor for Coursera: have you put something borrowed from Luiss, within this experience? Every single piece of what I learnt! Despite I was just out of the university, it has been very interesting being a mentor for people like me. Providing ideas about how to get informed, which is something we have always been doing at Luiss, is fundamental: staying curious and updated should not be undervalued. Your tips to those approaching. Observe and learn; ask professionals as much as you can. Look for internships since the beginning. Before the end of master, we felt very anxious about the search of the internship experience. It takes not to fall by the wayside when looking for the internship. Do not give up, believe that something is ready to welcome you. By the way, Luiss Team is constantly by your side when preparing the interview: along the whole path, full sustain is ensured. 8/4/2021

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

04 August 2021

Luigi Caldarola: «Career change is easier, thanks to Luiss Business School»

After five years in Nike, the alumnus launched himself in a new adventure, diving into an industry to be discovered according to his personality. To back him up, skills and a wide curiosity. Luigi Caldarola’s story, after the Major in Corporate Finance, for #MyLuissBusiness series Leaving the job of his dreams in Nike, diving into the unexplored: Luigi Caldarola has chosen to try it, without any fear. The university journey made at Luiss gave him energy and self-confidence. Nowadays he is 30, training himself to become the European Senior Financial Analyst at StockX, a company working with limited-edition products reselling. The bravery to start again with solid skills and great curiosity, it comes from the Major in Corporate Finance of the Master in Financial Management, that Luigi attended at Luiss Business School. Luigi Caldarola, why did you chose to enroll in the Major in Corporate Finance at Luiss Business School? I got my Bachelor in Economics and Management – Administration, Finance and Company Control at Luiss Guido Carli. After an educating experience in London, both at a personal and professional level, I have understood what to do in my life. What happened? During my first experience, I had to deal with investment funds based on climate change. Afterwards, I understood that I wanted to get closer to the Corporate Finance world. Then, being very attached to my roots and family, I decided to come back to Rome and to go on with my education thanks to the Major in Corporate Finance (MACOFIN) at Luiss Business School. Why have you chosen a Master program instead of a Master’s degree? Holding a Master program outweighs abroad. The world of practice is very competitive, especially at an international level: I wanted to try to accelerate the whole process. How was the environment you found at Luiss Business School? A splendid, serene, international environment: it allowed me to make friends along the whole journey together. I have met a stunning team, and we keep on staying in touch: we have never been only colleagues, but real friends, studying and going out together. The relationship with the faculty members has been wonderful, and the teachings have been excellent. A limited number of students constitutes each class, and this is a factor which allows professors to provide attendants with a specific, student-oriented mindset. At the beginning, I did not know it would have been like this. MACOFIN is fully in English: has this fact been a threat or an opportunity? I have started with a good English basis, since I had had the opportunity to practice it, but it is very important to be in touch with the language every day: speaking, understanding, reading it and express oneself. Even among us we tried to speak English as much as possible. The master enhanced it, thanks to the concentrated focus on Corporate Finance glossary, a brand-new subject for me. Soft skills: how have you worked on them during the master? Communication is everything: we have tried to communicate each other as much as possible. Building up relationships, even with small talks is basic, a factor which helped me both in the past and in my current job. How to work in teams has also been pushed as activity, in addition to the change of the group itself, aiming to interact with everybody. The master has given us a specific mindset on how to approach particular themes in the future environment. What about the most significant moments along this journey? There have not been significant moments above others: the whole path has been wonderful. Starting a new chapter of your life with people you get on well with, it represents a plus, indeed. The only worst moment arrived at the very end, when we were perceiving to be almost concluding the year, and we were about to separate each other. Instruction and teachings: what did make the difference? Among professors, some more, some less – important names were counted within Faculty team – had collected important experiences along their careers. Everyone used to arrive in a happy mood to lesson, aware that there would have been important people to listen to. In addition to be actual teachings, they have been life lessons. From Luiss Business School to Nike: how did you get there? Working in Nike has always been the dream of my life, and I got there by chance. I was in Croatia, and I thought to send an email to the HR department to ask about vacancies. I was not expecting an answer, but I received a prompt one instead, offering me the possibility to do an interview immediately. I had a pending offer from British American Tobacco, but Nike was my dream. So, I said to myself: “Let’s see how it goes”. Coming from Luiss world, what did it mean? It meant a lot, as I told before, it is an international environment. The approach with the English has been important, in addition to how teaching experience was. About your moving to StockX: did the experience in Luiss make the difference? Luiss has represented the core. When I introduce myself, I start from the basis, from my university path, and I widely highlight this. During the application I have been doing, in the drop-down menus the Luiss item was among the very first ones. It is very popular, especially abroad. What position are you going to hold at StockX? I will be Senior Financial Analyst at European level. StockX is a big company born in America, ready to land in the Old Continent. The company has two hundred employees in London’s offices and the Finance Department is currently empty: I am the first and only resource of the sector. It is a very dynamic position, in need to be organized at a structural level, and I am going there for this reason. This is a new, increasing business and it must be in-depth analyzed. I will report to the headquarters, in the United States, despite I will largely work in smart working, travelling among The Netherlands, London and the United States. How will your life be in StockX? A famous proverb says the devil you know is better than the devil you do not. This is true regarding Nike: life in its campus has been incredibly beautiful. By the way, now the corporate routine is different for all. StockX allows me to be in smart working, I won’t go to the office daily, thus at a human level it will be completely different. For this reason, I requested in person meetings in the headquarters: personal encounters are essential. What will you bring from Nike? I will try to bring with me all the multiethnic experience I have made, being more open-minded compared to when I started, trying to be a better business partner. Moreover, I carry on keeping in mind Nike’s structure and technical skills, which I have been strengthening in Luiss, also. What are your future plans? Do you ever think diving back to education? I consider my career still at a beginner step. I was not planning to change, but it happened: it may happen the same with studies. Nowadays, changing and finding something new is very difficult, but it is possible. Competition is huge. Once I feel to be able to deal with both, I would like to try to carry on my studies for expanding my knowledge, one of the reasons which drove me towards the change. Have you students been trained to competitiveness during your time spent at Luiss Business School? Yes, we have, but I found a “nice” concept of competitiveness among colleagues. Your suggestions to current and future students: how to fully catch opportunities along the path? Above all, believe in that: I collected a difficult experience at high school. But I always have had specific objectives on which I have focused my attention, and I never surrendered. Life must be eaten up: this is something Luiss taught me. Another fundamental aspect is to seize every moment: years at Luiss have been tough but beautiful. To which creativity to appeal, since the last students have not had the opportunity to live what you could do in presence? How to compensate for? The human factor is fundamental, I have experimented it on the work field. Last year spent in smart working allowed me to come back home, but the ideal is the right mix between the office and the screen. You are about to face an important career switch: did the journey made at Luiss Business School help you in in this passage? Yes, it did. In Luiss I have learnt to widen my vision. At first, I thought I would have worked in Italy, but during my journey in Business School, having to do with many cultures, I have learnt to let me go. Since there, it was born my desire to try to join Nike, in The Netherlands, and I have not been scared anymore. I must be grateful to my family, who has stayed by my side, supporting my choice. I am thankful to whom has been close to me during this journey, a person in particular. I am also grateful to whom contributed to make this experience as unforgettable. After my first experience abroad, after many difficult moments, I felt braver and said to myself: «…why not to try with a smaller reality, to make it greater? ». But there is also another question to which I am going to answer, sooner or later. What? We often talk about brain drain from Italy. I think we have the moral duty to take back our experiences: I believe that one day I will put together all of these, to make them greater in our homeland. 8/4/2021

#MyLuissBusiness Talents

04 August 2021

Discovering Villa Blanc

Villa Blanc, Luiss Business School headquarter, it is considered a symbol of eclecticism, revived and renewed in order to become the heartbeat of management education, a talent and innovation forge connecting young people, corporates and institutions, in a unique frame in the world. Villa Blanc was born under the sign of transformation: in 1893 the Baron Alberto Blanc has bought the site from the vineyards belonging to Lezzani family, in the surrounding territory of the famous Basilica dedicated to Sant’ Agnese Fuori Le Mura (Saint Agnes outside the Walls). The complex was at first an “out of town” rural property, then transformed by the Baron, once he had become the Minister of Foreign Affairs during the third Crispi government, in an elegant residence, more adequate to the new office. The construction of the Villa underwent an experimental project, driven by the designer Francesco Mora and by the archaeologist Giacomo Boni, combining archaeological elements, fine decorations and advanced techniques in its architecture and infrastructure. The decorations of the Villa have been attributed to Alessandro Morani and Adolfo De Carolis, and have reached eclecticism levels never seen before, particularly in the works of external glazed earthenware, put in the façades surrounding the Winter Garden and the Fumoir. The Mirror Room is the most ancient interior of the Villa: here the Baron had gathered and exposed a precious collection of 18th century Flemish tapestry, nowadays kept in Amsterdam. In the Dining Room, put at center between the Mirror Room, the Winter Garden and the Fumoir, the white marble monumental chimney outstands. Three arches are framing the outlook on Winter Garden, one of the places added by Giacomo Boni to the central side, together with the Ballroom. It is considered the biggest winter garden in Europe: for its setting, 10.000 tulip bulbs, lilacs, roses and azaleas, had been imported from the Dutch city of Haarlem. Under the Dining Room lies the hypogeum, probably used for esoteric rituals and gatherings. The Ballroom, completed at the end of 1896 after an enlargement of the Villa, reaches very high eclecticism levels, thanks to the metallic structures and the ceiling inspired to a Middle East style: the stained-glass windows and the full view on the park strengthen the idea of the highest level of integration between the Nature and the work of man, highly sought-after in the 19th century culture. The garden is featured by a similar match of styles, themes, suggestions too, in which coexist antiques and exotic plant species, such as a collection of palms. When the Baron Blanc died in Turin, in May 1904, the Villa was inherited by his wife Natalia first, then by their three children. The park has then been enriched with seven smaller buildings. After years of neglect, in 1997, the Luiss Guido Carli has purchased the complex during a public auction, and after a long and thorough research, design, restoration and valuation work, Villa Blanc became the Luiss Business School headquarter. 8/4/2021

Villa Blanc

19 July 2021

Analysis of the impact of Plain Packaging on tobacco consumption in the UK and France

We are pleased to announce that the report on the analysis of the impact of Plain Packaging on tobacco consumption in France and the UK has been released. The report was originally commissioned by British American Tobacco. The Report looks at three years of post-implementation data (which is a longer time series than any other published analyses of the impact of Plain Packaging on tobacco consumption in France and the UK to date). Analyses provide no evidence to support the effectiveness of Plain Packaging as a policy to reduce cigarette consumption and there is evidence, showing that Plain Packaging has had a counterproductive effect in France, resulting in an increase in cigarette consumption rather than a decrease. DOWNLOAD REPORT 7/19/2021

04 May 2021

Luiss Business School joins The Future of Management Education (FOME) Alliance, the global network of leading business schools

Luiss Business School, the higher education management school of Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome (Italy), becomes a new member of the Future of Management Education (FOME) Alliance. This network brings together faculty, senior management, Edtech project managers, learning designers, and media experts from each school to co-create the very best online learning experiences. Entering into the FOME Alliance, Luiss Business School joins ten partners: BI (Norway); ESMT (Germany); EDHEC (France); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong); IE (Spain); Imperial College Business School (UK); Ivey Business School (Canada); Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (United States); SMU (Singapore); The University of Melbourne (Australia) and insendi, the London-based leading online education company, as technological partner. As a new FOME member, Luiss Business School will provide existing members with new opportunities, including resources, expertise and leadership, which will assist in the development of advanced online practices. Great attention will be paid to the field of digital transformation, and the opportunities that will arise from this, to encourage an attitude of change. The Luiss Business School will further contribute with resources, expertise and leadership to assist with the development of best online practices of innovative technological tools and pedagogical models. "We are deeply proud of this achievement which is both a goal and a recognition of the value of the educational offer of the School at the same time – says Paolo Boccardelli, Dean of the Luiss Business School. –and we have already started working together with our counterparts from the ten nations represented in the Board of the Alliance. We see digital transformation as a mindset, the main path to follow to implement our mission. In this scenario digitalization conquers the role of a key dimension, thus enabling the innovation of the teaching methods adopted, to strengthen the learning experience of our students. The Luiss Business School ethos is strongly committed to contribute to the FOME vision and mission due to their strong alignment with our School’s philosophy. Being the only Italian Business School in this network invests us with a great responsibility”. 05/04/2021

Digital Transformation network

03 September 2020

Luiss Business School achieves AMBA accreditation

Luiss Business School has officially received accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA), one of the world’s leading authorities on post-graduate business education, demonstrating its continuing commitment to excellence in management education. Upon receiving AMBA accreditation, all current MBA students and MBA alumni of Luiss Business School are invited to join AMBA’s global member community of more than 50,000 students and alumni in more than 150 countries on a free basis, for networking, thought leadership, career development, and a variety of benefits. Luiss Business School is located in Rome, Italy. The School delivers postgraduate and executive education including degree (MBA and one-year specialist Masters), non-degree, open and customised programmes as well as producing academic and applied research. Accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) represents the highest standard of achievement in post-graduate business education. Its rigorous assessment criteria ensure that only the highest-calibre programmes which demonstrate the best standards in teaching, curriculum, and student interaction achieve Association of MBAs accreditation. Members of AMBA’s visiting accreditation panel, representing senior management at AMBA-accredited Business Schools globally, commended the senior leadership team, in particular the collegiate atmosphere they created at the School. The panel thought this demonstrated the boutique and human-oriented culture of the School. The panel also noted the School’s rapid response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This included delivering both existing and new programmes online, as well taking other operational activities online swiftly. The School was also commended for its strong connections with companies operating in Italy and beyond. Paolo Boccardelli, Dean of Luiss Business School, said: "Joining the 300 Business Schools that have received the AMBA accreditation globally is a source of great satisfaction for us. Our MBA and our School have proved that they can meet the high-quality standards required for this accreditation and it is a confirm of the right direction of the work done in these years. The rapid response to the Covid-19 pandemic was also appreciated, to which we promptly responded with the delivery of new programmes in digital formula and the creation of new training courses". AMBA accreditation is international in scope and reach, and AMBA works under the belief that accredited programmes should be of the highest standard and reflect changing trends and innovation in post-graduate management education. Its accreditation process reflects this commitment to fostering innovation, and demanding Business Schools to perform at the highest level continually. Andrew Main Wilson, Chief Executive of the Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association (BGA), said, "It is a pleasure to welcome Luiss Business School to AMBA’s network of world leading Business Schools. This School operates with the highest quality and has continued to do so, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, showing great innovation and adaptability. I look forward to working with Luiss Business School in the future".

09 January 2020

Luiss Business School acquires Amsterdam Fashion Academy: the School expands its presence abroad

Amsterdam will become the Hub for School’s international activities and an attraction point for young people in Northern Europe. Thanks to this operation, Luiss Business School accelerates its growth and get stronger in the higher education for fashion and luxury sectors, traditional Made in Italy excellence. Luiss Business School acquires Amsterdam Fashion Academy: for the first time in its history, the School grows abroad and through an acquisition, strengthening its positioning as a dynamic and international excellent Italian institution. Thanks to this operation, Luiss Business School speeds up in higher education of fashion and luxury sectors, traditional Made in Italy spearhead. The Amsterdam Fashion Academy (AFA) is a higher education boutique founded in The Netherlands in 2013 and it is currently the only Dutch institution giving a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Fashion and Luxury sectors. With approximately 200 students, the 73% of them coming from 20 different Countries all around the World, AFA is high-ranked, posing great attention to academic quality and to the ratio between Students and Teachers, currently equal to 6, representing a unprecedented case in the higher education landscape, both before and after graduation. “The acquisition of Amsterdam Fashion Academy represents a historic milestone for Luiss Business School and for our University, as well as for our education system in general”, Luiss’ President Vincenzo Boccia commented. “Thanks to this operation, Luiss reaffirms itself as an extremely dynamic reality, on a strong expansion path and with a particular attention to education challenges at an international level”, Boccia added. The acquisition will allow Luiss Business School to develop a particularly attractive educational offer, with double or joint programmes located in Amsterdam and Rome, in addition to the creation of a solid axis in fashion and luxury sectors between Milan and Amsterdam hubs. “Thanks to this operation, few weeks after the strengthening on national territory with the opening of Dolomites Hub, located in Veneto region, Luiss Business School will develop a concrete international hub, in which to focus on educational activities dedicated to Northern Europe young graduates, in all those sectors representing the Made In Italy excellence: fashion and luxury first, but creative industry and family business are included, where Italy and Luiss Business School are referring points”, added Luigi Abete, Luiss Business School President. Moreover, the choice of Amsterdam will allow Luiss Business School to further develop its network with global and European multinational companies’ headquarters settled in The Netherlands capital, a trend willing to grow up thanks to current geopolitical European developments. Establishing a direct presence at the heart of Europe will allow Luiss Business School to develop an excellent hub for the international recruitment of the Students for the whole School, thus exploiting synergies of costs and academic. Over the next two years, AFA offer portfolio is foreseen to be revised and integrated: the kick-off of 15 courses - Master and Executive – is expected in 2020 – 2021. Gemma & Partners assisted Luiss Business School in the acquisition with a team led by Partners Dr. Antonio Italiano for financial and tax profiles, Prof. Andrea Gemma together with senior associate Elisabetta Mattozzi and associate Leone Momigliano for legal and regulatory profiles. 01/09/2020

Amsterdam Fashion Academy