Dare to Care in Montreal

In early August, Bocconi researchers attended the Academy of Management Meeting en masse. Around 35 faculty members presented papers. The Carlo Masini Award was given by the Bocconi Department of Management to the best paper of the conference concerning the management of public organizations and non-profits

In August, as the activity in the Milan campus died down, a large delegation of the Bocconi faculty attended the annual Academy of Management Meeting in Montréal. Around 35 Bocconi professors and affiliates presented papers, while other faculty members attended the seminars, workshops and panels of the conference, along with the other 8,650 participants. This year's conference theme was Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research.

Founded in 1936, the Academy of Management is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world and today gathers 19,370 members from 105 nations. The meeting this year emphasized the attention corporations and their managers should pay to all their stakeholders and discussed how management researchers need to consider whether their research and knowledge actually contributes to the well-being of society at large.

Parallel to the conference, as part of the international job market, 4 Bocconi PhDs were interviewed for by other universities for academic posts in management. Bocconi itself interviewed around 20 candidates for assistant professor positions in the Department of Management.

The Bocconi professors and affiliates whose papers were presented at the meeting were: Manuela Brusoni, Stefano Brusoni, Eugenia Cacciatori, Arnaldo Camuffo, Francesco Castellaneta, Fabrizio Castellucci, Magdalena Cholakova, Raffaele Conti, Guido Corbetta, Elena Dalpiaz, Giada Di Stefano, Alfonso Gambardella, Andrea Lanza, Myriam Mariani, Alessandro Minichilli, Mario Minoja, Nicola Misani, Elena Novelli, Andrea Ordanini, Giovanna Padula, Fabrizio Perretti, Francesco Perrini, Davide Ravasi, Carlo Salvato, Barbara Slavich, Giuseppe Soda, Giovanni Valentini, Veronica Vecchi, Gianmario Verona, Clodia Vurro, Alessandro Zattoni, Maurizio Zollo and Fabio Zona.

On August 8, the Bocconi Department of Management and the Research Division of SDA Bocconi School of Management organized a well-attended reception. On the same day, the Carlo Masini Award, promoted and funded by the Bocconi Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management, was given to the best and most innovative paper presented to the Public and Non-Profit Management Division of the meeting. Instituted in memory of Carlo Masini, the Bocconi doyen of business administration, the prize was handed by an international committee which included Bocconi professor Elio Borgonovi.