A Bocconian Think-Tank in Shanghai
Understanding current, rapidly-evolving scenarios is crucial for business, and it is such need which SDA Bocconi School of Management has addressed by developing a cycle of special seminars addressed to international managers starting on January 25 in Shanghai. The basic idae is to understand ongoing changes at the business as well as the macroeconomic level. The International Think-Tank initiative is aimed at Chinese and international managers operating in China's entrepreneurial and financial hub. It will at look at industries like finance and luxury, and delve into human resource management and corporate strategy.
"This initiative develops one of the cardinal point of the School's mission, i.e. supporting the internationalizaition of our companies and institutions," Alberto Grando, Dean of SDA Bocconi, explains. "We also think that Shanghai, where Bocconi is already present and attracts a significant pool of interested and receptive international executives, is ta valid platform from where experimenting with new ways of disseminating high-level managerial culture."
The seminars start on Monday, January 25 with a seminar on the international economic outlook held by Guido Tabellini, Rector of Bocconi and Professor of Economics. In March there will be a two seminars: on March 1, Stefano Gatti, Director of the Bocconi Degree in Economics and Finance; and on March 22 Massimiliano Bruni, Professor of Strategy and Director of the SDA Bocconi Master in Fine Food & Beverage, will talk about how to achieve success in luxury markets.
On May 10, James Hayton, who teaches at the Bocconi Department of Management, will discuss the optimization of human resources. In June, a seminar on the opening of China to the global world will be held by Francesco Sisci, Beijing correspondent of La Stampa and coordinator of the exchange program between the Central Party School and Italy, and Jin Bei, President of the Institute of Industrial Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In September, financial markets will be discussed in the company of Alberto Bisin, Professor of Economics at New York University and Bocconi IGIER fellow, and Fulvio Ortu, Professor of Financial Mathematics and Dean of International Affairs. On November 4, the concluding event, a seminar with Antonio Catalani, who teaches in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Division of SDA Bocconi School of Management.
This is the first initiative that Bocconi develops in China unaided by a local partner. In 2002, Bocconi created a team devoted to developing relations and programs with the East Asian power. In 2004, it opened a desk in Shanghai. Bocconi has 12 partner schools in China for its exchange and cooperation programs, and it offers the Double Degree in International Management with Shanghai's Fudan University. Fudan is also SDA Bocconi's partner in the Global executive MBA and in the Fashion & Prestige Management program aimed at managers working in China.