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15 December 2016

LUISS MBA AdVenture: when entrepreneurship meets the teamwork

MBA AdVenture is a very innovative project designed to challenge the students to put into practice knowledge learned during the academic year. It is a laboratory aimed to push its participants to apply their skills and know how in a real company producing tangible and implementable results. Alessandro Blanchi, Svetlana Ivanova, Britney Minto and Valerio Caprasecca are the team members that have been working with EggUp, an Italian startup company with the mission to change the way in which employers find suitable professionals and match them with their existing teams. “We carefully studied the company and its business model in order to find points of strength and weakness that had to be worked on . – they say – After careful consideration and detailed analysis of all the material collected, we decided to propose a new business model. “In order to accomplish this task, we planned several Skype meetings as our group was composed of team members that were located in different countries. We had to manage long distances and various time zones: for example, Britney was in Philadelphia, US while Valerio was in Melbourne, Australia”. The challenges that the team faced didn’t concern merely the organizational profile, but affected even the decisions which had to be made: “The project challenged us to think outside the box, to design a smarter and more modern solution for EggUp and to be competitive in its market. In order to make the idea even more valuable, we supported the entire project with theoretical and academic insights acquired during our studies at LUISS Business School and from each of our own previous work experiences”. “The AdVenture experience represented an exceptional added value within the LUISS MBA program. It gave us the possibility to see and evaluate all the aspects of a company. We truly had a unique opportunity of knowing the vision of a startup, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the needs of the markets and of potential investors. It is an experience unlike no other”. Working in a team has been really helpful for developing the team members future careers: “It allowed all of us to utilize our strengths, sharpen our weaknesses, trusting and depending on our team members. Being a team player is a valuable asset that will be needed in all of our career from human resources, marketing, business development, to innovation. We are now equipped to make the transition from classmates to colleagues”. “We would describe the program in 3 words: • Challenging: coping with the overall stress due to the multiple time differences, various schedules of team members, and managing the different ideas concerning potential strategies to implement; • Resourceful: in terms of putting into practice academics in order to form a solution that meets the needs and interests of the company; • Creative: requires brainstorming to produce unique solutions that can be practically implemented”

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15 December 2016

SUBLIMINA Opening, the exhibition curated by students of the LUISS Master of Art

SUBLIMINA is a contemporary art exhibition which will open on December 14 2016. From the planning stage to the final set up, the exhibition was organized and managed by the “Colletivo curatoriale” of the sixth edition of the Master of Art of LUISS Creative Business Center. It will stay open to the public until January 10 2017 at Museo delle Mura in Via di Porta San Sebastiano, 18, Rome. The exhibition offers an insight on the concept of border: moving from the geopolitical meaning and current times, the students of “Colletivo curatoriale” have examined the philosophical and antropological aspects of such concept. The fifteen chosen pieces of international artists express this idea of border and which is stated visually through video and sound installations, photos, paintings and sculptures. The Museo delle Mura in Porta San Sebastiano, is one of the biggest and best preserved areas of the Aurelian Walls built in the III century A.D, border of the city of Rome, being therefore, the ideal place to host this exhibition. SUBLIMINA will also host the works of three finalists of the Premio Internazionale Generazione Contemporanea. Especially during the Finissage of the exhibition, planned for January 10 2107, when the winner will be announced. Follow SUBLIMINA also on Instagram and on Facebook with the hashtag #sublimina. SUBLIMINA December 15 2016 – January 10 2017 Museo delle Mura Aureliane,Via di Porta San Sebastiano, 18, Roma Curated by Collettivo Curatoriale LUISS Master of Art INAUGURATION December 14 – 6 :00 pm The artists: Liu Bolin, Silvia Camporesi, Loris Cecchini, Luca di Luzio, Kaarina Kaikkonen, H.H. LIM, Eva Marisaldi, Marzia Migliora, Fiamma Montezemolo, Ariel Orozco, Alessandro Piangiamore, Pietro Ruffo, The Cool Couple, Glenn Weyant, Marco Maria Zanin. Collettivo Curatoriale is formed by: Caterina Appignani, Ruggero Barberi, Bin Taher Abdelfattah Jamal Mohamed, Stefania Calandriello, Marina Casale, Marianna De Vita, Martina Fantini,Sara Francescangeli, Agata Gazzillo, Viola Giannerini, Giuseppina Giummarra, Maria Sara Intoccia, Anna Carla Mastroianni, Leonardo Morfini, Piermarco Parracciani, Paola Edvige Piras, Barbara Reggio, Francesca Ruggiero, Olivia Salmistrari, Flavia Sorato, Simona Strippoli, Rebecca Terzano, Chiara Tondi. 29/11/2016

24 November 2016

Leader For Talent (#L4T): Meeting with Giuseppe Recchi Executive Chairman of Telecom Italia

Leader for Talent (#L4T) is a series of meetings with speakers and testimonies from the corporate world. The meetings are strongly oriented to management best practices occurring in the companies in order to offer a very operational methodology. L4T is designed to enhance the meeting with business leaders of the main organizations, offering our students the experience of a debate that can enrich them in terms of professional and soft skills. Giuseppe Recchi has been Executive Chairman of Telecom Italia since April 2014. He was Chairman of the Board of Eni SpA from 2011 to May 2014. He is a member of the Board of UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA and European Institute of Oncology. He is also a member of the GSMA (Association of mobile operators worldwide), the Advisory Board of Confindustria, member of the Board of the Italian Corporate Governance Committee, the Italian Institute of Technology and Assonime (Italian Joint Stock Companies). In 1989 he started his career as an entrepreneur at Recchi SpA, a general contractor active in 25 Countries in the construction of high‐tech public infrastructure. In 1999 he joined General Electric, where he spent 12 years holding several managerial positions both in Europe and in USA, among which Managing Director for Industrial M&A and Business Development of GE EMEA. Until May 2011 he was President & CEO of GE South Europe. He graduated in Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He has been visiting Professor in Corporate Finance at Turin University. The event is reserved to Students of LUISS Business School Masters. Watch live streaming 21/11/2016

21 November 2016

Leader For Talent (#L4T): Meeting with Paolo Bruschi Deputy General Manager Poste Italiane

Leader for Talent (#L4T) is a series of meetings with speakers and testimonies from the corporate world. The meetings are strongly oriented to management best practices occurring in the companies in order to offer a very operational methodology. L4T is designed to enhance the meeting with business leaders of the main organizations, offering our students the experience of a debate that can enrich them in terms of professional and soft skills. Paolo Bruschi is Deputy General Manager and Head of Human Resources, External Relations and Services Poste Italiane. Manager and advisor for a long time, with heterodox experience for many companies and Italian Institutions (including Emilia Romagna Region, Fininvest, Omnitel, Enel, Autostrade per l'Italia), he founded in 1995 Segest Spa, a public relations and communications company, who led for 20 years. In the '80s he was among the innovative figures of associations, international cooperation and human rights, personal and professional passion that brought him to meet some great people of history as Nelson Mandela. For the same passion, he undertook many knowledge trips and many professional appointments (2012-2014, Director of the Institute for Italo-Vietnamese Relations). The event is reserved to Students of LUISS Business School Masters. 21/11/2016

16 November 2016

The Recipe for Success by Walter Ruffinoni

On November 8 2016, LUISS Business School hosted Walter Ruffinoni, CEO at NTT DATA Italy, for the «#L4T - Leader for Talent» event reserved for the Students of Specialized Masters. Here are the insights written by Katrina Ustyuzhanina, student of the Master in Tourism Management who attended the event. Leader for Talent is a great opportunity for LUISS Business School students to meet the most successful professionals from the corporate world. During an hour of listening to the Leader's speech, students can enrich themselves with the most useful operational methodology information used in the World's leading companies and get precious advices for their career paths. This time students had a chance to meet an outstanding professional - Walter Ruffinoni. Walter Ruffinoni is a CEO at NTT DATA Italy. He joined the company in 2010, bringing to the role more than 20 years of experience in the Technology and Consulting Industry along with an Executive Management Leadership. His main mission as a CEO is to make NTT DATA Italy the leading company in digital innovation and in particular cybersecurity, undoubtly he has been extremely successful in brining this mission into action. Mr. Walter Ruffinoni shared with the students his vision of the leader in the future and gave some suggestions about building a successful career plan according to his personal professional experience. Mr.Walter Ruffinoni mentioned that we are living in the time of digital revolution, where the changes are happening with an unusual speed and are transforming not only the way we interact with each other, but also the business society. Our generation will be facing the biggest opportunities in the business world, but in order to find your place in it you will have to be educated and to be an advanced user of new technologies. Every step forward that technology is making is also creating an exponential disruption , however it means that there are no more boundaries that were preventing people in the past to make their dreams come true, today you have a chance to become a corporate citizen , to be a start uper,enterpreneur or to have any career you wish. There are 10 basic rules that Mr. Ruffinoni suggested the students to follow when they will start their career path: First rule is to choose the right company to work for. In order to do that you have to understand the vision a company has, the values it is endorsing, along with the culture and the people that are envolved in it. The company you will choose has to be a right fit for your personal characteristics, because at the end of the day you invest so much of your personal time in it, that it will really make an incredible difference if you are sharing the vision and feel the purpose of making all the effort. Second rule is to periodically check your own progress. Take a couple of hours to ask yourself ''Am I learning? Am I acquiring new skills that are taking me to the goal I would like to pursue?''. Make sure if the answer to these questions is ''No'', you have to do something about it. Third rule is to always ask feedback from the people youwork with, from your boss and your leader. It will help you to distinguish your strengths and your weaknesses. Certainly your weaknesses are something you have to work on , but do not forget to know your strengths, you have to build on those, because they are going to be an accelerator to your career. Fourth rule is to never stay in your comfort zone. You have to always push yourself beyond your limits. Once you feel confident and comfortable in what you are doing in your work – it is time to move on. It has to become your philosophy and the rythm of your internal clock. Fifth rule is to put passion in everything you do. Passion is an amazing engine that potentially can make anything possible. Try your best not to be shy but to use the maximum of your energy and passion in the job you do. Sixth rule is to not be afraid of making mistakes. Never be afraid of failing, because by trying you will either win or you will learn. It is important to put all of your effort in a task rather than doing nothing, even if you are not sure whether you will succeed. Seventh rule is to not put a lot of attention on your salary or earnings at the beginning of your career. In the first 5-6 years your goal is to lay the grounds and build the leader you want to become, therefore your salary or earnings in this period of time will not be a critical factor. However, in order to do that you need to pick a job that you like, where you can learn a lot of things, improve your skills and put yourself out of a comfort zone. Eighth rule will apply when you will become a leader. Remember that a Leader is different from a Boss,a leader is generous, welcoming, suggesting and proposing. You will have to set a vision, that is inclusive and sustainable, because you have to give a purpose for the people working with you, for you and around you. Your strategy has to take the right focus, to be simple and understandable for everyone. Nineth rule is to be a brave leader and to always be yourself. If somebody is putting you in a particular place, there must a reason why it is you and not another person. Some people tend to change their personal characteristics depending on the position they were given in a company, never do this kind of mistake – always stay true to yourself. Tenth rule is to always think of talking to the people's mind and heart, emotions play an incredibly important role in being a leader. Apply story telling every time you can and listen to the people. Communication is the key, it makes people feel a part of the big picture which will definitely stimulate their perfomance. Mr.Walter Ruffinoni is an expert in technology and executive management field, LUISS students could not miss an opportunity to ask him questions, Mr. Walter Ruffinoni gave full answers to all of them. Here are the list of Questions and Answers: How did a small start-up in Calabria, one of the Italian regions most affected from the digital gap, succeedin becoming a center of excellence in Cyber Security Research? There are three main ingredients for that. First a purpose, going back to the 2000, it was 3 people’s dream to build a working positing and an opportunity to hire employees, which will prevent people from leaving Calabria, because there is no work. Second is passion, by becoming a visible leader in technology we are able to attract many young people to work with artificial intelligence, cyber security and so on. Third is the innovation ecosystem, we started collaborating with a local university, which is preparing trained specialists with the skills we are looking for. We also think about Cosenza employees’ future, if one day our operation there will stop, they will have a good technology experience and will be able to find a job anywhere else. Currently we have grown from 50 people to 200 people within 3 years. Now we are coming to do the same in Naples. Which are the actual risks led by the digital revolution in terms of cyber security? Which viable solutions do you see in a long term perspective and in particular which strategy is NTT pursuing? Cyber security is very complex, investing in a cyber security seems strange, because if everything is going well you will be wondering why are we investing in it, but once it goes wrong it can be very dangerous. The more digital world is developing, the more data is growing and today data gives organizations a competitive advantage. These days the companies have to protect a complex environment. My vision is that the cyber opportunity will be perceived as a threat in doing business in a future world; you need to protect an amazing number of elements that are going to become a potential source of attack for your company. However, there is another way to go, our strategy is to put cyber security in the 1st place, our company was even thinking to reframe its identity to a security company. There is a lot of awareness that needs to be carried out in the society, corporations, institutions and the private life. We need to educate our children to the right use of a social media, data and how to have more privacy sharing. The Europe Code Week has just ended. What do you think about coding courses introduction into fancy school programs? How teaching paradigms are evolving with the digital revolution? There will be an empowerment of next generation learning capacity or we risk digital dementia to  gain the upper hand? We strongly believe that we need to get more people exposed to technology, especially women. It is not easy to find a presence of women in STEM universities. We have a day dedicated to kids, which is called ''kids in the company''. We try to let them start coding from scratch, for children it serves as a game instrument, but it gives them a basic understanding. Our purpose is to make sure that every year more boys and girls attend this course. One thing we are lacking is people coming out from the technology faculties. In our case we try to fill the gap. Do you think the company with Japanese origin and its peculiar mindset has had an influence on the corporate pursued strategies? In my career I was working for a company acquired by USA, it had a ''straight to the point''. We had to plan the budget for this quarter and to always increase the bar, we worked as if there was no next quarter rather than this one, and it was kind of a ''hire or fire'' strategy. If the change in numbers was not as it was written in the plan, for the first time you were safe, next time you were out. On the opposite, Japanese culture is very different. In Japanese company they asked me to do a long-term plan. The first and second year while we reaching the planned number in our budget I didn’t get the request to raise the bar. There is more attention to sustainability, it is not about making the numbers bigger, but creating the grounds to keep achieving the same numbers and get the company to grow. We are an Italian company owned by a Japanese company. From our starting point they gave us enough time to transform the company and to build the right grounds. Which is the role played by women in the digital revolution and the more effective ways to attract female talents? I strongly believe that women have a great opportunity in a digital world. We are taking this topic seriously in our company, we set up a target of having 50% of hiring women employees, 50% of the management promotions need to be women too, probably the target won’t be achieved within 2 years, but it is important to keep working on it and to make structural changes in a company. We have to give the same opportunities to women in the technology world. Which do you think are the pros and cons of public services digitization? Which is the likelihood of human jobs being cut ? The technology revolution will not stop, we either have to embrace it and try to get the best out of it or we will lose. For sure a lot of jobs will change, if you go to the cities like Tokyo and Shanghai you can see more and more robots alongside citizens. There are already machines diagnosing cancer, artificial intelligence lawyers and artificial intelligence journalists in USA. Digitalization will hit the banking sector in Italy, today there is no need to go to the banks like we did 10-15 years ago, we can do it online, a lot of branches will be closing, there will be a real estate revolution and a lot of people will be relocated. The digital revolution is here; in 10 years almost a half of current jobs will not exist anymore and there will be new jobs which will require a new set of skills. We need lead the revolution and seize the opportunities coming from it. Taking into account the Genesys voice platform implemented for Fastweb and the central role played by customer satisfaction, could you tell us its relevance in the whole global NTT strategy and which actions have been undertaken? Customer satisfaction is the most important aspect of every single company. Look at any emerging companies like Amazon, Airbnb, Uber etc. if there is one thing impressing me is the user experience. In the future companies will have to make sure they can satisfy customers; if the company does not have the right customer experience it will be a matter of few years till they close down their business. Which resources and distinctive capabilities should a company hold to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in the IT service and solution field? Picking the right technology and the right trend, for us it is absolutely the key. Of course you need to have the right people around you, you need people who are willing to experience new things and to bring passion to the company. It is also very important to have the right focus on innovation. How is the European market of digital technologies similar or different from an Asian market? One of the main differences is of course the data using. Another incredible thing is that the quality focus is different. The western mentality is to do good enough, but for the Japanese the quality is a number one issue. Finally, the dedication and the sense of belonging. When I was working in the American Cyber company I asked my colleagues for how long they’ve been working in the company and I got the answers ''3, 2, 4, 5 years''. When I entered the NTT Data, the first time I asked few people the same question and after the fifth person told me ''since university'' - I stopped asking. In Japan the company you choose to work for is for life. The sense of belonging, the way you are treated by the company is totally different. As Italians we should take Italian creativity and flexibility and combine it with Japanese dedication, long-term execution and teamwork, then you will get the most you can possibly imagine. It is worth mentioning that it is interesting to realize how simple and genuine a successful and great people are. How easily they share there own experience and give you a life changing advices . These were 2 fantastic hours where all the LUISS students who attended this meeting learnt a lot of useful information and certainly are going to apply it in real life. Our main goal is not only to become a leader, but to create leaders around us and be the change we want to see in this world. (Article by Katrina Ustyuzhanina, student of the Master in Tourism Management) Gallery 08/11/2016 16/11/2016

16 November 2016

GROW – Generating Real Opportunities for Women

LUISS Business School is launching the project GROW – Generating Real Opportunities for Women with the aim to promote, support and improve personal and professional development of LUISS Business School’s female students with a focus on the access to the working world and to the enhancement of their career, so as to reach the highest levels within companies, institutions, universities and other organizations. GROW pursues this aim through the creation and organization of networking and mentoring activities as well as training and talent development. The milestones will be set on November 11 2016 during the first official meeting lead by LUISS University’s General Manager Giovanni Lo Storto, by LUISS University’s Rector Paola Severino and by the Dean of LUISS Business School Paolo Boccardelli. The planned activities are addressed to all the female students enrolled in Masters and specialized courses (I and II level, including MBAs and Executive Education Programmes) GROW activities are led by a Steering Committe composed by the partners and by the executive managers of LUISS Business School in order to define the strategic objectives and the guide lines to pursue in the current year ; the Advisory Board is composed by key speakers coming from different professional fields, representatives of sectors and offices in line with the planned objectives and activities and who will be periodically involved in the initiatives developed during the year. The following will be involved in this important and innovative project: Luisa Todini; President Poste Italiane and member of BOD LUISS Lella Golfo; President of Fondazione Marisa Bellisario Sandra Mori; President Valore D Giorgio Milesi; Vice President Developed Markets South Medical Devices EMEA J&J Stefania Brancaccio; Vice President Coelmo Maurizia Villa; Managing Director Korn/Ferry International Marta Dassù; Senior Director European Affairs The Aspen Institute Marco Icardi; CEE Vice Regional President and CEO SAS Italia Ilaria dalla Riva, HR Director MPS Simonetta Iarlori; COO Cassa Depositi and Prestiti Aurelio Regina; Partner Egon Zendher Francesca Di Carlo; Head of Human Resources and Organization ENEL Valeria Sandei; CEO Almawave, Marketing Strategic Director AlmavivA Enrico Cereda; General Manager IBM Italia Loredana Gulino; General Manager anti- counterfeiting – MISE-UIBM Emanuele Mangiacotti; Head of Recruiting, Training and Human Capital Development – Wind Telecomunicazioni Emiliano Cappuccitti; ‎HR Director Coca Cola HBC Italia Gabriella Valentinotti, Head of Global Training&Development and Internal Communication at Benetton Group Ida Sirolli; Head of Education and New Capabilities at TIM Francesca Patellani; Human Capital & Diversity and Geographic Services Lead of Accenture Gallery 08/11/2016 08/11/2016

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14 November 2016

Leader For Talent (#L4T): Meeting with Fabio Corsico Top Manager Gruppo Caltagirone

Leader for Talent (#L4T) is a series of meetings with speakers and testimonies from the corporate world. The meetings are strongly oriented to management best practices occurring in the companies in order to offer a very operational methodology. L4T is designed to enhance the meeting with business leaders of the main organizations, offering our students the experience of a debate that can enrich them in terms of professional and soft skills. Fabio Corsico: Board member of Cementir Holding, "Il Gazzettino", Terna and NTV; Credit Suisse AG and Biverbanca Senior Advisor for Italy. Since 2008, he is Board member of CRT Foundation and Vice Chairman of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita and Equiter. Founder and member of the Aspen Junior Fellows, the Council for United States and Italy, the Board of Zero Magazine and Rivista Formiche. The event is reserved to Students of LUISS Business School Masters. 14/11/2016

07 November 2016

Why choose Italy? LUISS Creative Business Center gives its contribution to MIA - new International Audiovisual Market

The LUISS Creative Business Center gives its creative contribution to the MIA – New International Market for the Audio-visuals The students of the Master Writing School for Cinema & Television have conceived and developed the screenplay and directed MIA TV 2016’s promo reel which aims at showcasing the Italian television industry. The video was presented during the event The Italian Journey. Il video: (VIDEO CREDITS: AURORA FILM; BIBI FILM TV; CATTLEYA; CLEMART; COSMO PRODUZIONI; CROSSO PRODUCTION; ENDEMOL SHINE ITALY; LUX VIDE; PALOMAR; PUBLISPEI; VELAFILM; WILDSIDE) MIA is the first Italian Market converging all the segments of the audio-visual industry. MIA is a brand of Anica (National Association of Cinema and Audiovisual Industries) and APT (Association of Television Producers). MIA Directive Committee’s members, whose constant cooperation is vital for the creation and development of the market, represent ANICA, APT, Cartoon it, Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Italian Film Commissions Association, 100Autori and UNEFA (Union of Film and Audiovisual Exporters). Therefore, MIA sees the cooperation of the entire Italian Cinema, Media & Entertainment industry, becoming a market from the industry to the industry. LUISS Creative Business Center thanks MIA, Fondazione per il Cinema di Roma and APT – Associazione Produttori Televisivi – for the incredible opportunity that was granted to its students. Special thanks also go to our students that, coordinated by the passion and creativity of Francesca Tauriello -Head of MIA TV 2016-, have successfully brought to a conclusion, with incredible commitment, an extremely interesting project that simultaneously engages the public and shines a bright light on the world of creative industries. 07/11/2016

04 November 2016

Leader For Talent (#L4T): Meeting with Walter Ruffinoni CEO NTT DATA

Leader for Talent (#L4T) is a series of meetings with speakers and testimonies from the corporate world. The meetings are strongly oriented to management best practices occurring in the companies in order to offer a very operational methodology. L4T is designed to enhance the meeting with business leaders of the main organizations, offering our students the experience of a debate that can enrich them in terms of professional and soft skills. Walter Ruffinoni 51 years old is graduated Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan and later obtained a Master in Business Administration at SDA Bocconi. He is CEO at NTT DATA Italy. He joined the company in 2010, bringing to the role more than 20 years of experience in the Technology and Consulting Industry along with an Executive Management Leadership. As a CEO, Walter, oversees Corporate direction and strategy and he mainly focuses on Strategy and Innovation with a great attention to Customer Satisfaction. As a strong advocate of the role played by the digital transformation in shaping the business dynamics, from 2013 his as a CEO is to make NTT DATA Italy the leading company in digital innovation and in particular cybersecurity. The event is reserved to Students of LUISS Business School Masters. 04/11/2016

04 November 2016

International Students, Welcome to LUISS Business School

On Friday, October 30, LUISS Business School welcomed its international students who have just started their studies in specialised master’s and MBA programmes. The Welcome Day gave the international students an opportunity to introduce their culture by presenting symbols and cultural objects to other foreign and also Italian students, who in turn explained the fundamental parts of the local culture to them. Moreover, with a precious help of the local students we introduced multiple Italian gestures that could help our international students in their daily life in Italy. In active Q&A sessions in groups our international students talked with local peers about social life in Rome and Italy, and got to know more about interesting national destinations, leisure time, restaurants, etc. In the end of this very informal meeting all the participants shared their “cultural” one-year goals. We hope that all our international students will feel themselves at home while living in Italy! In bocca al lupo! Good luck! Gallery " width="300" height="150" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> 03/11/2016

03 November 2016

Apple CFO Luca Maestri awarded Alumnus LUISS 2016

The LUISS Board of Directors, as proposed by the university’s alumni association Associazione Laureati LUISS, has chosen Apple Senior Vice President and CFO Luca Maestri as Alumnus LUISS 2016. Roman, age 53, Economics class of 1987, the top manager of the Cupertino-based tech company has been chosen by the university’s executive committee from a pool of high profile candidates proposed by the university’s alumni association, Associazione Laureati LUISS (ALL). The LUISS graduate will be recognized on November 4, 2016 in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the alumni association. The event is reserved to all LUISS alumni and their guests upon registration. READ MORE 3/11/2016

28 October 2016

Call for Papers - 1st IESE-LUISS Business School Conference on Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship

Call for papers for the "1st IESE-LUISS Business School Conference on Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. Hybrid organizations: walking at the edge between economic performance and social & environmental impact", April 18-19, 2017 - Rome, Italy. This call for papers aims at generating a conference exploring how organizational hybridity is created and sustained, with particular reference to social enterprises. Highlights Exceptional Speakers: Johanna Mair, Anne Claire Pache, Guido Palazzo, Tommaso Ramus and Ute Stephan Special Issue: we have proposed to the Journal of Business Ethics to create a Thematic Symposium linked to the conference. Extensive Discussion of your Work: Each paper will be allocated a large slot for presentation and Q&A. In each parallel session a discussant -asked to read the papers in advance- will give feedback Developing Scholarship: The conference hosts a Ph.D. and Early Career Symposium. Submission: Submit (deadline December 1st, 2016) via http://www.iese.edu/luiss-conference Download the Call for Papers

21 October 2016

Induction Week for the New Students of the Specialised Master’s Programmes

LUISS Business School welcomes its new students of the Specialised Master’s Programmes (2016/2017) with an Induction Week, five days of workshops on global megatrends and scenarios, as well as on useful study methods. The Induction Week will take place on October 24–28. Our seminars will cover the key topics for professional growth, from developing an effective brand identity to using digital tools, and explain the basic skills needed for the studies: how to analyse and solve a case study. Within the Induction Week the students will get to know the main people that they will be interacting with during their studies in the LUISS Business School: Programme Coordinators, staff of Career Service, Corporate Relations and Marketing Office. The week will end with a special Welcome Party, an event exclusively dedicated to our students. The party will take place on October 28 in the Auditorium Multimediale Hall of an Italian popular radio station RDS. When posting photos on the Induction Week on Instagram we invite the participants to use the hashtag #LUISSMasters and the tag @LUISSBusiness to have their pictures shared on the official channels of the business school. AGENDA 21/10/2016

04 October 2016

Paola Severino nominated LUISS Rector

The Board of Directors nominated Paola Severino as rector of the LUISS university The LUISS Board of Directors, led by President Emma Marcegaglia, nominated Professor Paola Severino to succeed Professor Massimo Egidi as rector of the LUISS university until April 2018. During the Board of Directors session, Professor Severino nominated Andrea Prencipe, Professor of Economics and Innovation Management from the Department of Business and Economics, new vice rector of the university. Read more 04/10/2016

03 October 2016

The LUISS MBA Alumnus Alessandro Belli is the Head of Tourism Real Estate at CDP Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Investimenti SGR

Starting from September 2016, our LUISS MBA Alumnus Alessandro Belli is the Head of Tourism Real Estate at CDP Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Investimenti SGR. CDP is a joint-stock company under public control, promoting Italian economy and, in particular, its industrial sector through state-guaranteed postal savings products and the issuance of bonds. Alessandro’s main task within the organisation is managing the its start-up business unit of tourism investments. With a degree in Civil Engineering he got the Master in Business Administration in 2001. Alessandro is an Adjunct Professor in real estate finance at LUISS Business School, Faculty Member of the Master in Real Estate programme, RICS Member. He is also board member and co-founder of the LUISS Business School Alumni Association. After initial technical roles in engineering companies, he joined Grandi Stazioni SpA in 2001, dealing with investment evaluation and finance. In 2005, he worked for Cushman & Wakefield as Senior Consultant, then for Torre SGR (Fortress group) as Acquisition Manager. In 2007, he joined Pirelli RE SpA as Head of Acquisitions Tourism and later as Director of Highstreet Management Services BV (Amsterdam), in 2009 he became Head of Management team of Fabrica SGR, and later Head of Investments. In Fabrica he finalised investments for €1.55B (€430M in real estate asset acquisitions and €1,120M in asset contributions), managing the start-up of funds for institutional investors (pension funds). He was also involved in structuring a commercial partnership with CBRE Global Investors and in developing new products. In 2015, he worked as Group Head of Real Estate in Mittel Group, an Italian listed company operating in private equity and real estate. He was CEO of MII srl, holding of the group’s real estate investments, and Member of the Board of Castello Sgr (Mittel shareholder 22%). 29/09/2016

28 September 2016

The Power of Sport: LUISS Business School Alumni will meet the representatives of the Special Olympics

The meeting’s agenda concentrates on the experience of Special Olympics, the value of sport, and the connection between sport and education. On October 3, 2016, the Association of the LUISS Business School Alumni is honoured to give a warm welcome to Timothy Shriver, President of Special Olympics, which is the world’s greatest sports organisation uniting athletes of all ages with intellectual disabilities. The meeting will take place in the heart of Rome, in the suggestive Stadium of Domitian. The international organisation, founded in 1968, unites approximately 4.4 million athletes in 170 countries. With the support of more than a million coaches and volunteers, the Special Olympics offers its athletes an opportunity to play 32 sports disciplines participating in more than 81,000 competitions a year. Every day and all around the world, the organisation speaks for the human spirit, emphasising the power of change and the joy of doing sports. With its contribution to sports, health, training and education of different communities, the Special Olympics tackles inactivity, injustice, intolerance and social isolation, encouraging and supporting the people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of the activities of the organisation is to create a more hospitable and inclusive society. The event will be opened by Maurizio Romiti, President of Special Olympics Italy, and Leonardo Iacovelli, Managing Director of BLSA Qatar. Their welcoming speech will concentrate on the activities and strategy of the Special Olympics in Italy, giving an extra emphasis on the development of sports activities between athletes of different countries. The meeting will take place at the amazing archaeological site, the Stadium of Domitian, which is the first example of a specifically built sports venue in the antique Rome. The stadium was erected by the Emperor Domitianus in the end of the 1st century A.D. in order to import the Greek athletic games tradition to Rome. Francesco Rullani, Head of ERS Hub at LUISS University, based on his professional experience, will talk about the role of sport and education in youth development, and Edoardo Magnotta, Head of Alumni Network Development at LUISS Business School will shed light to the commitment of the alumni community in that respect. In fact, the alumni community of LUISS Business School is planning to support the spirit of the Special Olympics, empowering in particular the connection between sport and education, as well as establishing a cooperation with the organisation: the alumni will participate in the sports events creating mixed teams with special athletes. An example of this is the MBA Sport Games event, that took place on September 22nd-23rd at the “Giulio Onesti” Olympic Center in Rome, where the school’s alumni welcomed some special athletes in their team. Timothy Shriver on his part will give the participants a speech on the experience of the Special Olympics in the world, as well as on the example of sports as a fundamental instrument in spreading values, such as integration and development, contributing to improve the life of special athletes and their families. The event will take place on October 3rd at 5.30 p.m. at Via di Tor Sanguigna 3, Rome (near Piazza Navona). The Event 28/09/2016