EFMD | EMBA - MDSBA

7:30 PM [CET]
Welcome and brief introductions

At BBS, Francesca is in charge of Quality Services and Accreditations. She joined the Bologna Business School in 2020, and since then, her primary focus has been on quality processes and EQUIS accreditation.
Before arriving at BBS, Francesca worked for more than ten years at Politecnico di Milano School of Management. She was responsible for the School’s accreditations, faculty management, and international student office.
At the educational level, she has a post lauream professional master in Internationalisation of SMEs at Profingest and an MSc in Political Science at the University of Bologna.

Najada Muhaxhiri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology, Religions and Oriental Civilisations and a Master’s Degree in Global Cultures, both from the University of Bologna. During her academic training, she spent ten months in Belgium as an exchange student at the University of Ghent, specialising in the Sociology of Globalisation. She then worked as a Tutor at the Medical Center of the University of Bologna.
Najada has worked at Bologna Business School since February 2022, serving first as a Tutor and then as a Programme Manager in the Professional Masters Business Unit. Since April 2023, Najada has been a Quality Services and Accreditations Project Manager.

Maurizio Sobrero (Ph.D. MIT) is a Professor of Business and Management Engineering at the University of Bologna and Associate Dean for Accreditations and QS at Bologna Business School. Between 2012 and 2015 he helped found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow as a Distinguished Faculty Fellow for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has collaborated with numerous government institutions in Italy and abroad in the development of policies for research and innovation. He has taught in South America, Africa, China and several European countries, carried out consultancy and advisory services for various companies and institutions in Italy and abroad and he has worked as an Independent Director in various companies.

7:45 PM [CET]
Dinner in private room for the Peer Review Team (PRT) alone to set the visit agenda

9:00 AM [CET]
Heads of academic subject areas relevant to programmes
Faculty profiles: qualifications; relevant research and scholarship; workload allocation and teaching loads; evaluation and development of faculty including faculty pedagogic capabilities

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Maurizio Gabbrielli is Full Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. At Bologna Bologna School he is the Associate Dean for AI and Digital Soul and the Director of the Professional Master in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Management and also Director of the Executive Master in Artificial Intelligence for Business.
He is member of the FOCUS research team at INRIA and Scientific Head of the “Foundations of AI” unit of the ALMA-AI interdepartmental center. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of Pisa. He has then been employed at CWI (Amsterdam), at the University of Pisa and the University of Udine. He is the author of more than 100 publications in programming languages and artificial intelligence and has been Director of the European EIT Digital Doctoral School from 2015 to 2017.
He has also been: president of the Italian Association for Logic Programming (GULP); member of the advisory board of TPLP; member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Logic Programming; chair of the Steering Committee of the ACM conference PPDP; member of the board of the European association for Programming Languages and Systems. Maurizio is partner of italianaSoftware, a company producing microservices and Cloud computing technology.

Paola Giuri is Full Professor of Management at Bologna University, and currently Vice President of the School of Economics and Management at Rimini Campus. At Bologna Business School she serves as Associate Dean for Professional Masters. Her research focuses on the economics and management of innovation, entrepreneurship, university-industry technology transfer, economic and strategic uses of patents, social innovation and organisational change. She coordinated and had responsibilities for several international research projects funded by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank.
She has published articles in several journals, including Research Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, R&D Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, Industry and Innovation. She collaborates with several companies and institutions. Among these, she is a member of the Board of Regents of the Bank of Italy in Emilia Romagna.
She is also part of territorial committees selecting entrepreneurial ideas. She was a recipient of the 2010 Richard R. Nelson Prize Award and the Best Paper Award at, Druid Summer Conference 2007. Paola Giuri got her Ph.D. in Economics and Management of Innovation at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. In her career, she was a visiting Study Fellow for two years at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex.

Gabriele Morandin is Full Professor of Organisational Behavior at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna, where he is also Director of the Bachelor in Business Administration. He is Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Co-Director of the Professional Master in HRO at Bologna Business School, where he also teaches several courses for executive programmes. His research is focused on sustainable relationships both at work and off work and his publications appeared among others in Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Computers in Human Behavior.
Gabriele is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vocational Behavior and gained awards both for research (Outstanding Reviewer 2010, Academy of Management Meeting, MOC Division; Best Paper Award 2012 – XIII Italian Conference on Organisation Studies; Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing 2018, Journal of Vocational Behavior; Best Reviewer 2019, European Management Review) and teaching (100% Overall Students Satisfaction, for the Organisation and HRM bachelor course in 2012, 2016, 2020). He received the Ph.D. in Management in 2005 at the University of Bologna and he has been Visiting Scholar and Research Assistant from 2004 to 2006 at the University of Michigan, USA.

9:45 AM [CET]
Peer Review Team assessment of Executive MBA materials and student work
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

11:15 AM [CET]
Dean/Director and senior management team
Institutional mission and strategy; national context for the programmes; programme fit with mission; market positioning of the programmes and marketing; international and practitioner perspectives; other resources allocated to the programmes under review; for re-accreditation visits, progress towards the Areas of Required Improvement/Development Objectives

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Emanuele Bajo (Ph.D. in Finance at Catholic University of Milan) is Full Professor of Finance at the University of Bologna and Associate Dean for International Development at Bologna Business School where he is also the Director of the Master in Finance and Fintech.
In the past, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, San Diego State University, Visiting Researcher at Boston College and Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland.
His research interests and major publications are mainly related to IPO, Household Finance and Corporate Risk Management. He has published numerous articles in prestigious finance journals (among others, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance) and two books. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of Economics and Business.
In the past, he also worked in business consulting and he is the founder of the website Borse.it, one of the first financial websites in Italy.

Massimo Bergami is Full Professor of Organisational Behavior and the Dean of Bologna Business School, where he is also the Programme Director of the Ferrari Corporate EMBA. His research interests focus on social identity in organisation and organisational participation.
He is member of the Board of Directors at EFMD and the Founding Chair of the EMBA Consortium for Global Business Innovation.
He has accumulated significant international experiences at the University of Michigan, University of Florida, New York University and Bocconi University. He also is a Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and at MIRBIS (Moscow, Russia). He has been awarded the title of Knight Commander of the Italian Republic.
Massimo has extensive experience as non-executive director in public companies and as a top management consultant. He served as advisor of the Italian Government between 1996 and 2014.
He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Bologna.
Massimo is married to Ludovica, a creative researcher from Naples; they are the lucky parents of Giovanni Romano, a bright and lovely 8-year-old. Friends, jazz, food, wine, motors, and traveling color his life.

Prof. Romano Prodi

Chair of the Supervisory Board | Former President of the European Commission | Former Prime Minister of Italy | Professor of Industrial Economics

Romano Prodi was born in Scandiano (Reggio Emilia, Italy) in 1939. He has two children, Giorgio and Antonio. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University in Milan and the London School of Economics, his academic career began at the Department of Economics and at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna, where he worked as Assistant Professor (1963), Associate Professor (1966) and finally Full Professor (1971-1999) of Industrial Organisation and Industrial Policy.
In 1974 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard University and at the Stanford Research Institute. He helped establish the “Italian School of Industrial Policy”, and acted for several years as the editor of its quarterly journal, L’Industria, Rivista di Economia e Politica Industriale.
In 1981 he founded Nomisma, the largest Italian institute of economic studies, whose scientific committee he chaired until 1995. From November 1978 to March 1979, Romano Prodi was Minister of Industry. From November 1982 to October 1989, he was chairman and CEO of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), which was the largest Italian public holding. Recalled to head the Institute in 1993, he oversaw the privatisation of a number of industrial, banking and service companies. In February 1995 he founded the “Olive Tree” centre-left coalition, which designated him as its candidate for premiership. The coalition won the 1996 election and, in May 1996, he was appointed Prime Minister. He remained in office until October 1998. The bold measures introduced by his Cabinet enabled Italy to meet the Maastricht criteria for joining the Euro zone.
From 1999 to 2005 he was President of the European Commission. During his presidency, the Euro was successfully introduced, the Union was enlarged to admit 10 new countries from Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, and the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed. In 2006 Romano Prodi was elected leader of the centre-left coalition in Italy and, after winning the 2006 elections, he became Prime Minister until May 8, 2008. Since then he has been President of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation, and he held the post of Chairman of the United Nations-African Union High-level Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa from July 2008 to 2010. From February 2009 to December 2013, he was Professor at-large at Brown University (USA). From 2010 to November 2015 he was a Professor at CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) in Shanghai, and he is now Member of the Board of the same School. From October 2012 to January 2014 he was Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel. From March 2021 he is President of the Italy-ASEAN Association. During his academic and institutional career, Romano Prodi has been awarded a number of accolades and he also holds various honorary degrees.

Franco Valentini is Co-Managing Director of Bologna Business School and is responsible for operational management, coordination of educational programme delivery, and commercial activities. Franco has solid engineering and business management skills at the international level thanks to 27 years of experience in industrial automation and renewable energy, developed at Sadel S.r.l. and Enertronica Santerno S.p.a., where he was also General Manager for 3 years. Franco graduated from the University of Bologna in Electronic Engineering, holds an Executive MBA from Bologna Business School (2018), and is an ICF/ACTP coach. Always involved in volunteer activities, he is passionate about youth training, trekking, and networking.

12:15 PM [CET]
Buffet lunch
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

1:00 PM [CET]
Programme Director and management team of the Executive MBA
Programme objectives & target markets; curriculum rationale and design; learning, teaching and assessment strategy; delivery and assessment methods; student selection; faculty management re programme delivery; practical learning experience; international learning experience; infrastructure and resource support; programme marketing; graduate employment; stakeholder feedback; for re-accreditation visits, progress towards the Areas of Required Improvement/Development Objectives

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Alessio Cavallini is the Executive Director of the Executive MBA Programme at Bologna Business School. He also serves as the Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group, where he provides strategic support to management and investors in the Insurance and Technology sectors, specialising in strategic development, digital transformation, and extraordinary transactions within the Technology & Digital Unit at the Milan office.
In the early years of his career, he worked at Accenture Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis, focusing on technology innovation. Alessio holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Andrea Lipparini (Ph.D.) is Full Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Bologna. He is Associate Dean for MBAs at Bologna Business School, where he directs the Executive Master in Business Administration. He has been visiting scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and visiting researcher at the Tuck School in Dartmouth (US). He won the title of ‘Best Professor’ for the Master Degree in Management at the University of Bologna (2018), ‘Best Professor’ for the Corporate MBA at Ferrari (2021), and the ‘Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching’ at BBS.
He has published books and articles in several languages on the topics of strategy, high-performance teams, and business-to-business networks. He has been a member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ducati Motor, as well as co-founder of Ducati Consulting. He has been a member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of Air Dolomiti (Lufthansa Group) and of the Board of Directors of Human Company. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning and Economia & Management.
Andrea is also a member of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. He works with major organisations to develop the leadership skills and distinctive competencies of their managers.

Riccardo Silvi is Full Professor of Management Accounting at the School of Economics, Management and Statistics – Forlì campus and member of the Department of Management Studies at the University of Bologna. He is Core Faculty at the Bologna Business School where is Academic Director of the Executive MBA English Edition. At these schools, he teaches Performance Measurement Systems, Financial Analysis, Cost Management, and Business Performance Analytics. His research interests focus on Management Accounting (design of management control systems, performance measurement systems, strategic accounting), Analytical Business Performance Management, Digital Accounting and Transformation, Cost Accounting and Strategic Cost and Value Management. Riccardo is a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen and an affiliated researcher at CEPRA – Center for performance Research & Analytics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor in several international institutions including the Georg-August University in Gottingen, Babson College, University of Sydney and at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management of Sydney. He was Co-Director with Prof. Peter Hines of the Lean Management Accounting research programme at the Lean Enterprise Research Center of the Cardiff Business School. Riccardo’s work has been published in numerous academic journals and books including. He has assisted many leading Italian companies in strategic cost and value management programmes and in the implementation of strategic control systems to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their organisation activities.

Francesca Zuffi is Head of MBAs Business Unit at Bologna Business School.
She started her career at Bologna Business School in 2010 as a Programme Manager of several MBA programmes; in 2015 she became the Head of Executive MBA, and since 2019, she has been responsible for the entire Business Unit.
Francesca oversees the strategic and organisational coordination of the area, plans sales targets, carries out market analyses, forecasts, and budgets, and manages a team with which she designs, develops, and implements excellence in training courses aimed at executives, managers and entrepreneurs.
Since beginning her educational career, she has been oriented towards the world of training and people management, first with a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna, then specialising with a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management at Bologna Business School.
Throughout her career, Francesca has strengthened the competence, passion and reliability which characterise her, turning them into valuable professional strengths.

2:30 PM [CET]
Break

2:45 PM [CET]
Group 1 - Faculty staff teaching on Executive MBA who deliver a particular course/module in the programme
Qualifications and experience; relevant scholarly activity; pedagogical approaches; student support

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Filippo Boccali is Research Fellow at Department of Management at the University of Bologna. He is engaged in a project on the assessment of the financial impact of innovative industrial additive manufacturing production technologies. He has a Ph.D. at Università Politecnica delle Marche in the Department of Management. He teaches in several Professional Master’s and Executive programmes at Bologna Business School, his research focuses on cost management, performance management systems, business performance analytics, cost accounting and management control.
He has always been active as a consultant and a researcher on the issues of structuring cost accounting systems and business performance analytics, i.e. the use of mathematical or statistical methods to control the performance of the company.
As regards these topics, he has national and international publications, in particular in the magazine “Management Control” and in the International Journal of Production Economics.

Daniela Bolzani is Associate Professor in Economics and Business Management, at the University of Bologna where she got a Ph.D. in Business Management (2013) dealing with issues relating to cultural diversity and business internationalisation in high-tech companies. She has worked both as a member of the research team and as scientific referent within several European projects in the field of entrepreneurship, migrant integration and transversal skills.
She was a Junior Researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan as well. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder and at HEC Paris. Before starting her Ph.D., Daniela worked as a professional for about five years in the field of financial audit and international development in Europe and Africa.

Lorenzo Massa consults, speaks, researches, and teaches in the fields of strategy, innovation, and sustainability. He is the Managing Director of the Business Design Lab and Professor for Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability at Aalborg University Business School.
Lorenzo is Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Innovation and Adjunct Professor for executive education at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the International Academy of Sport Science and Technology (AISTS), Frankfurt School of Finance and Management as well as Bologna Business School.
His research has been published in publications such as the Academy of Management Annals, the Journal of Management, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Business and Management, among others. He is the author, together with Florian Lüdeke-Freund (ESCP, Berlin) and Henning Breuer (HMKW, Berlin) of Sustainable Business Model Design: 45 Patterns.
Lorenzo sits on the advisory board of different for-profit and non-profit organisations and is a trusted strategy, innovation, and sustainability advisor to executives in companies across many industries.
Lorenzo holds graduate Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology (B. Eng.) and the University of Genoa (M.Sc. Eng.) and a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Management from IESE Business School in Barcelona. As an engineer, he worked as a technologist in the design of blast furnaces and continuous casting processes.

Chiara Orsingher is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Bologna. She earned her Ph.D. in Management at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. She has been part of the Faculty of BBS since its foundation. Her research interests include service management, customer experience, customer satisfaction and complaining behavior, referral-reward programmes, and meta-analysis. Chiara has been awarded the best 2019 paper of the Journal of Service Research and has been a finalist in the 2014 edition of the award.
Her work has received twice the Highly Commended Paper Award from the Journal of Service Management. She is part of the International Network of Service Research as an important contributor to the field of service research and has been invited to several conferences as a Thought Leader in Services. She has published articles in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Academy of Management Perspectives, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Service Management, among others. Chiara advises several private and public companies on issues related to the development and management of the service offer, customer experience management, service failure and complaint handling management.

Umberto Tossini is the Chief People, Culture & Organisation Officer of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. With a solid basic education in key areas of human resource management, he was able to guide the cultural transformation process of the historic car manufacturer, effectively contributing to its complete turnaround.
Umberto has promoted a holistic approach to strategy, managing to integrate business aspects with innovation in the field of skills, people’s motivation and economic and environmental sustainability; this approach has allowed the company to obtain prestigious awards, starting with the Best Employer of Choice award in 2013, up to confirmation in 2019 for the sixth consecutive year, of the Top Employer certification.
Born in Avellino in 1967, he graduated in classical studies and later graduated in Law from the Luiss University in Rome. He has held positions of increasing responsibility, first at Fiat Auto, then at Vodafone.
In June 2017 he was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

2:45 PM [CET]
Group 2 - Faculty staff teaching on Executive MBA who deliver a particular course/module in the programme
Qualifications and experience; relevant scholarly activity; pedagogical approaches; student support

Aula della Caccia (first floor)

Roberta Gabrielli is Head of Marketing and Business Processes in Nomisma, with experience in strategy and marketing consultancy. At Bologna Business School, she is Executive Director at Executive Master in Sales & Marketing and Adjunct Professor.
She has many years of experience in qualitative and quantitative marketing research. In recent years she has worked in the field of strategic planning for the designing of business and marketing plans. She has worked with key international companies as: Amplifon, Crif, Medtronic, Monsanto, Leica Biosystem, Novartis, Ultradent Italia, Unicredit; but also, with important national companies as: Acantho, Alpi Wood, Camst, Ghelfi Ondulati, La Trentina, Pirelli, Terme di Aqui and Chianciano, Unisalute, Videoworks. In the past, she worked in the position of Consultant at Target Research and Consulting (2010-2014) and then Independent consultant (2014-2019).
She holds an Executive MBA at Bologna Business School (2015-2017) and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration (2010).

Massimiliano Ghini is an Emotional intelligence expert. Human Resources Management’s Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna and Organisational Behavior Professor at Bologna Business School, where he also directs the ‘Leadership in Action’ Open Programme. Management Consultant and Founder of TEAMX – Intelligence for team performance.
He is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organisations (CREIO). Master’s Degree with honours in International Business, he graduated in Political Sciences and Economics. Since 2000, he has dealt with emotional intelligence in leadership, change processes and teamwork. He loves neuroscience and the brain-based approach to business. In 2006, he has been a candidate for the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award for “his innovative research and tools related to Emotional Intelligence”. He managed the Six Seconds’ Center for Innovative Management in Menlo Park, California where he served for five years as a Board Member.
Massimiliano is the author of Intelligenza Emotiva in Azione, and co-author of the book Inside Change, the SEI Emotional Intelligence Assessment and the Vital Signs Tools to Measure the Drivers of Performance. In 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023 he won the “Best Teacher” Award for Executive Masters at Bologna Business School. Some organisations he has worked with: Amazon, Azimut, Basf, Eli Lilly, Ferrari, Google, Marchesini Group, Pﬁzer, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Schneider Electric, Trevi Group.

Matteo Mura (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Management Control Systems at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna and the Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change of the Bologna Business School. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Performance of the Cranfield School of Management and serves as a Teaching Associate at the Warwick Business School. His research focuses on the design and implementation of corporate sustainability performance measurement and management systems, circular economy, and sustainability transition management.
He collaborates with research centers in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Brazil, and has coordinated research projects funded by the EU Commission, the Italian Ministry for the Environment, and major Italian companies. He has published 37 articles in peer-reviewed journals, six book chapters, and has been a speaker at over 60 international conferences, including three invited speeches at the European Commission.
For his research, he has received several international awards including the 2019 Tom Hustad Outstanding Paper Award of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. In 2021 he co-founded B-Plas sbrl, an academy spin-off of the University of Bologna which focuses on the production of bio-plastics from sewage sludge.

Alec Ross is an American author, entrepreneur and technology policy expert: he was Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the duration of her term as Secretary of State and he served as the Convener for the Technology & Media Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
After leaving the Department of State in 2013 he joined the School of International and Public Affairs, King’s College London as a Visiting Professor, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs as a Distinguished Senior Fellow.
Alec is a recipient of the U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award, the Oxford University Internet & Society Award and the TriBeCa Film Festival Book of the Year Award. He was also named one of Foreign Policy magazine Top 100 Global Thinkers. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Industries of the Future”, translated into twenty-four languages, and named the Book of 2016 at TriBeCa Festival.
He is a Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm and sits on the board of directors or advisors for companies in the fields of technology, finance, education, human capital and cybersecurity.

Franco Visani (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Financial and Management Accounting.
At Bologna Business School, he is Associate Dean for Open Programs, Director of the Hybrid MBA and Director of three Open Programmes: Administration, Finance and Control; Finance for non-Finace Managers and Corporate and Individual Performance Measurement. He also teaches in several Professional Masters and Executive programmes and he was voted three times as the best teacher of the school. He has always been active first as a consultant, then as a researcher on the issues of structuring advanced management control systems and business performance analytics, i.e. the use of mathematical or statistical methods to control the performance of the company. In these fields, he has been part of several research projects both in Italy and at the international level. He has published several books and over 50 national and international publications, in particular in highly prestigious international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation and Ecological Economics. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the “Management Control” magazine and a reviewer of several international journals.

4:00 PM [CET]
Peer Review Team further assessment of Executive MBA and preliminary assessment of Master in Data Science and Business Analytics materials and student work
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

5:00 PM [CET]
Group 1 - Students on Executive MBA XX
Student experience

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Marco Bagato is Operation Director and member of Italian steering committee in Sperlari, historical company leader in the Italian confectionary market.
Characterised by passionate leadership based on openness, respect for people and roles, Marco leads the teams of four Plants, Quality, Engineering, R&D, Purchasing and International Private Label business.
Professionally, he raised his experience in FMCG family-business and multinational companies in Food, Chemical and Mechanical sectors, always improving companies competitiveness.
Starting as Engineer in automotive industries – CGT and Magneti Marelli, he moved to maintenance in a food industry – Levoni. The attraction of multinational companies brought him to the production departments in a chemical company – McBride.
The love for Italian food, brought him back to an Italian food company – Unichips as Plant manager and then to the actual company, firstly as Plant manager, then as Manufacturing Director and to the current role.
Travel lover, Marco had been involved in several European projects that allowed him to enlarge his knowledge.
He has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.

Elia Bianco gained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering at Parma University in 2007 and 2009. During his studies, he spent 8 months in Politecnique of Industrial Engineering Valencia (ES). In 2023 he concluded his Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.
From 2018 to 2021 he worked as a Europe Sales & Strategic Marketing Director at Landi Renzo Group (LRG) in Reggio Emilia. Since 2021 he has been Group Sales & Marketing Director in Vimi Fasteners Group, a leading producer of high-engineered fastening solutions for a wide range of applications in Automotive, Supercars, Industrial, Motorsport and Energy with 300 employees in 3 production plants. The company is listed in the stock exchange. With a direct report to Group CEO, Elia is responsible for the overall result for Net Sales and Margin for the whole Vimi Fasteners Group including 3 companies (Vimi Fasteners spa, Filostamp and MF) managing a team of 20 people.
He speaks fluently Spanish and English. He played football and joined a team since when he was 6 years old playing on the young team of Reggiana and Bologna, travelling around the World meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. He is a Car and motorcycle passionate, free-time book reader.

Elisa Cattaneo is a C-level executive working in Human Capital department for more than 15 years.
Since December 2022 she has been the Chief People Officer at Sacco System, a biotech centre of international excellence in the food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries.
Her purpose is leading Sacco System employee experience, aligning business targets and people requirements.
She drives the organisational design, keeping a good balance between employee engagement and labour cost optimisation. She guarantees efficiency and productivity through an effective Unions relationship.
She previously worked for the design market as HR Director; Alessi and Ideal Standard International were her main experiences.
Elisa graduated in Arts al Literature in 2001 and she gained her first HR Master in 2003.
She loves my family and spend her spare time with them, she likes hiking and trekking through the Alps. She loves nature and camping.

Marco Della Porta is an experienced professional in Operations, specialised in industrial project management.
Throughout his career, Marco has cultivated a diverse skill set, focusing on industrial engineering and project management. In his current role as Market Engineering Manager, at Kerakoll SPA, a global leader in the production of construction materials, he oversees strategic projects, which play a critical role in expanding Operations. He has been instrumental in driving industrial development in high-growth emerging markets such as India and Poland, managing highly complex projects that include cutting-edge industrial facilities and the establishment of new production sites.
The ability to think holistically, his deep knowledge of industrial technologies and proficiency in managing multifunctional teams are key factors in Marco’s professional journey.
Marco holds his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Modena e Reggio E. University and an Executive MBA from Bologna Business School.
Curiosity is a defining trait not limited to his professional life. In his personal pursuits, Marco indulges his love for travel and exploring diverse cultures. He is passionately dedicated to the cause of sustainable architecture and bioconstruction.

Renzo Patelli, 48 years old, is in charge of Alce Nero Spa Sales – the leading company in organic chill, frozen and grocery food, with a turnover of 80 milions euro.
He manages and deals with the main Italian Retailers and International Wholesalers through our direct and indirect sales. His team is made of 50 people split into two internal offices: Italy and Export departments.

He is interested in new products, innovation trends and new concepts of food.
In terms of goals, he achieved the sales targets set during the last 15 years and he built all the sales web that they are currently working with.
He has been working for Alce Nero since setting up the business in the early 2000s and he has contributed to building the brand value and awareness within the markets.
He started as Key Account for Specialised Shops, and after some years he moved to Retailers Key Account Manager and ten years ago, he got appointed as Sales Director for all divisions.
He attended the Executive MBA in Bologna Business School until last March and before this, he got his Degree in Business Administration at Bologna University.
He is into hiking and sightseeing, he loves nature and sports in general, and he has practiced football for many years.

Laura Sacchetti is a Sales Manager in Tosoh Bioscience, a company that works in the Diagnostics markets (Immunochemistry, HPLC based diabetes and thalassemia screening and Molecular Biology).
Laura is responsible for the North-east Italy business in terms of revenue and growth. Her main activities consist of guiding the sales offer process and managing agents and distributors in order to ensure the promotion and sale of the products in the portfolio.
She previously worked for Abbott, a medical device manufacturer company, in a technical sales role and she also had an experience as Territory Manager in Molnlycke, a medical device company.
She believes that great results are achieved with teamwork: in 2021 she received the Italian award from Molnlycke for her contribution to the growth of the Italian sales team.
In her academic path, Laura studied Electronic Engineering with a biomedical specialisation.
She likes spending weekends and free time with her family and friends. She likes animals, and she has a cat.

5:00 PM [CET]
Group 2 - Students on Executive MBA XX
Student experience

Aula della Caccia (first floor)

Gian Luca Antinori has been working in Maserati for 17 years. He acquired a long experience in Project Management responsibility of long time to market technological products, concerning several million-euro budgets and many people of different nationality and competences. Currently, he is the Vehicle Technical Manager of Maserati MC20. Gian Luca is responsible for managing the execution phase of this new car, leading his technical team to guarantee project deliverables in terms of performance, timing, cost and quality.
Prior to this role, he held different positions in the Product Development Organisation, as vehicle responsible for several Maserati and Alfa Romeo projects such as Quattroporte, Ghibli, GranTurismo, GranCabrio, Stelvio and Giulia.
He is an organised and proactive person. His skills are leadership, communication, problem-solving, work for an objective attitude and teamwork. Gian Luca loves supporting his team members, but also receiving their feedback that allows him to improve himself.
He has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Parma and an Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.
He lives in Parma with his wife Barbara and his son Alessandro.
He loves travelling and sports, specifically running, biking and swimming. He is a marathoner.

Guendalina Bosco is a manager with many years of human resources management, business organisation and leadership experience.
Currently, she serves as VP of HR Hydraulics EMEA for Helios Technologies, a U.S. Company listed on the NYSE, a global leader in highly engineered motion control and electronic controls technology for diverse end markets, and as Director of Human Resources and General Services at Faster S.r.l, a leader company for manufacturing and selling quick couplings. Guendalina handles a wide range of responsibilities, including organising, managing and developing human resources.
Prior to assuming her current position, she spent five years as HR Organisational Development Manager, with significant contributions to the evolution and the organisation of the Company.
Guendalina earned her Master’s Degree in Management, Finance and International Business and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Bergamo. She also holds an Executive MBA from the Bologna Business School.
In addition to her work, Guendalina has a passion for art, especially drawing, painting and theatre.

Mitzi Dall’Aste Brandolini currently works as a Merger & Acquisition Specialist. With over 15 years of experience in corporate and group reorganisation, she operates with the exclusive mandate from KONE S.p.A., negotiating and completing acquisitions and integrations on behalf of all group Companies in Italy.
She deals with all legal, finance, accounting and tax aspect related to the acquiring companies, reporting directly to the CEO and CFO and interacting with staff from KONE.
Mitzi has completed every growth mission assigned. The Group has successfully concluded more than 40 acquisitions since 2017 amounting to a value of around 70 million euros.
She has always been involved in corporate finance and prior to joining KONE, she was Head of Tax Department and of Finance Department of OTIS S.p.A.
She also spent a full year as an Assistant and Expert in Tax Law at the University of Bologna, where she was an Economics Student. After a first-class honours Degree, she became a qualified Chartered Accountant. Then, following her passion for entrepreneurship, she earned an Executive MBA this year in March from Bologna Business School.
She spends all her spare time writing and reading or outside, travelling, motorbiking and cycling.

Barbara Cenerelli has a Degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literature (German, English French), and she has attended the Executive MBA Programme at Bologna Business School which allowed her to mature a transversal managerial awareness, well-calibrated in the current market and in more general life scenarios.
Barbara is currently working as a Sales Manager for Van Leeuwen Italia Spa, a world leader in steel pipe distribution and related applications.
She manages the business of Key Customers, coordinates the sales team in the Bologna plant and is a CRM key user. Since 2003 she has been passionate about the steel sector, while her previous and first professional experience was in fashion accessories: she was Area Manager for Furla Spa, following business in North European Countries; for Barbara, it has been an important experience either for human relationships or for the product & context. She enjoyed very much the multicultural frame she was daily involved with, excited to understand the different habits, trends and needs of every single country and be successful in creating added value for customers and the company.
She loves her family, especially her son. She loves diving, sailing, sea life and visiting the beauty of the world.

Marco Andrea Ferri is a Manager with various experiences in multinational manufacturing industrial plants.
He has gained skills and managed teams in several business areas, from sales to training to customer service. He has worked in various countries and in different business units and has been responsible for both leading established structures and creating and managing completely new organisations.
He is currently in charge of managing the company’s Corporate Academy after creating it from scratch in 2020.
Marco Andrea graduated in Management Engineering, and he continually tries to improve and expand his skills. Accordingly, he recently completed an Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.
Marco Andrea has been a football referee since he was 15 years old and refereed in a national league. He is a voracious reader; he plays piano, guitar and bass, and he is a sports enthusiast. Finally, he loves traveling and experiencing different cultures.

Lodovico Menozzi is currently covering the role of Business Development Manager within the Digital Enterprise business unit at Siemens SpA.
The Digital Enterprise team has the scope to enable Digital Transformation in Production facilities, leveraging Siemens advanced technologies such as Industrial IoT, Digital Twin and Industrial Metaverse.
Prior to joining Siemens, he spent most of his career at NI (formerly National Instruments), a US-based hi-tech multinational company, covering different roles, from Engineering to Sales up to International Business Development.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Physics, several certifications in software and technology and recently he completed the Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.
On a personal note, Lodovico is a passionate tennis player and mountain hiker.

Giovanni Tamburini is 52 years old, born and resident in Bologna, Italy.
Currently, he works in the Yageo Group, with HQ in Taiwan, a world leader in especially passive electronic components (5 billion turnover and 50k employees). He is CEO of Kemet Electronics Italia Srl (49 million turnover and 350 employees), but above all, he is Vice President HR EMEA (5k employees in 19 countries, 36 companies and various brands: Kemet, Ferroxcube, Yageo, Egston, Vihtrom, etc).
Mainly he deals with all core HR activities, as well as M&A (a prevalent area in the last 2 years), business integration, restructuring and development.
Previously he held HR Director roles in the transport sector (BRT Corriere Espresso) and in the industrial and petroleum construction and plant engineering sector (Busi Group and Bentini International).
For over 12 years he has been part of Confindustria and Federmeccanica in various roles. He is VP of AIDP Emilia Romagna (National Association of Personnel Management).
He has a legal background. Later, he attended a course in Strategic HR at Bocconi and Management at Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed an Executive MBA at Bologna Business School in March 2023. He likes to consider himself an atypical HR, he is very close to the business.
Giovanni likes to be in-depth and informed about what is happening in the world. He has been a Scout Educator (AGESCI) for many years. He loves and practices endurance sports (swimming, cycling, running, climbing, etc.)

5:45 PM [CET]
Alumni/graduates from both programmes
Student experience; programme value added; job profiles; support for and from alumni

Aula della Caccia (first floor)

5:45 PM [CET]
External connections for both programmes
Employers of programme graduates, providers of internships or placements, regular visiting speakers/lecturer

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

7:30 PM [CET]
Dinner in private room for the Peer Review Team alone for discussion and preliminary evaluation of Executive MBA

9:00 AM [CET]
Programme Director and Management Team of Master in Data Science and Business Analytics
Programme objectives & target markets; curriculum rationale and design; delivery and assessment methods; student selection; faculty management re programme delivery; practical learning experience; international learning experience; infrastructure and resource support; programme marketing; graduate employment; stakeholder feedback

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Michele Coco is Head of Professional Masters at Bologna Business School. He organises, coordinates and supervises activities in the Professional Masters Business Unit. His experience in BBS began in 2015, initially as Programme Manager of several undergraduate programmes, and then he became Head of the Full-time Masters. After a one-year interlude as Head of Faculty Office and HR Manager, since 2021 he is again in charge of overseeing the Professional Masters Business Unit.
Michele obtained a Master’s Degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Bologna, and during his studies he spent a semester as an exchange student at the Université Catholique in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In 2021, he attended the MBA in a part-time formula at Bologna Business School.
He has been involved in education since his early university years, with some collaborations as a tutor for master’s degrees (2012-2013) and Italy-US international exchange projects (2009).
Michele loves music and has been collecting 60s and 70s vinyl records for several years and occasionally he plays them in public as a DJ.

Chiara Nicolau has a Bachelor’s Degree in European Languages and Cultures and a Master’s Degree in Languages for Communication in International Enterprises and Organisations both obtained at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. After the Degree, she did the Unioncamere Internship at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Argentina in the field of the internationalisation of businesses and institutions.
Chiara has been working at the University of Modena as an international programmes Coordinator and in the organization of courses and events for national and international students. Then she founded her own startup dealing with the promotion of Italian Institutions abroad, the development of international agreements and the recruitment of international students. At Bologna Business School she supports the business units with the promotion of masters assisting students with enrolment and with services and opportunities even not concerning academic matters.

Claudio Sartori is a Machine Learning and Informatics Full Professor at the University of Bologna. At Bologna Business School, he is the Scientific Director of the Master in Data Science and Business Analytics and Consultant for activities in the Data Science area. He holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering (Italian title obtained in 1981). He is Visiting Professor at Technical University Federigo Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile. Claudio was also Responsible for the Observatory on Technological Innovation for the EULA-GTEC Erasmus + Project, whose goal is the design and launching of an Observatory or Antenna that allow perceiving training problems among managers (to improve training offers) and identifying SMEs demands, which are not clearly revealed (to improve demand identification). The Observatory also contribute to the employability of graduates creating links with the SMEs labour market. Claudio conducts Joint Research Cooperation with the Department of Informatics, Technical University Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile and Universitè de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.

Andrea Zani is Head of Career Services at Bologna Business School. Andrea is a professional with solid experience in education management within world-class academic institutions.
He previously worked at the Career Service of SDA Bocconi School of Management and at the ISPI School of ISPI – Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale in Milan, Italy. Alumnus of the School of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna, he spent one academic year at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
In the education business, flawless operation management is key to a good customer experience: this the reason why he loves planning and executing to perfection career development activities, recruiting processes, and cultural events. Supporting students in fulfilling their career goals is a driving passion for Andrea and his close-knit team. He learned to manage relationships with students, faculty, and employers worldwide, and he can quickly adapt to different cultures and mindsets.

10:30 AM [CET]
Peer Review Team assessment of Master in Data Science and Business Analytics materials and student work
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

11:45 AM [CET]
Group 1 - Faculty staff teaching on Master in Data Science and Business Analytics who deliver a particular course/module in the programme
Qualifications and experience; relevant scholarly activity; pedagogical approaches; student support

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Furio Camillo is Associate Professor of Business Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna. Lecturer in various courses of the School of Economics, Statistics and Management, including Business Intelligence and Analytical Techniques for CRM and Marketing Research. He is the Director of the Master in Investigation de Mercado y Data Mining at the Buenos Aires University of Bologna.
His recent research interests are linked to studies for the implementation of semi-industrial analytical systems using the latest innovations of Computer Science as end platforms. He worked on data mining methods for the reduction of subjective choices in defining the driving parameters of a customer profiling project, discriminating models estimated with kernel space (for customer profiling and credit scoring) and a selection approach linked to the theory of information complexity.

Gabriele D’Angelo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna. He obtained the Degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005, both from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2020, he got the Italian National Habilitation as Associate Professor of Computer Science (01/B1) and Computer Engineering (09/H1). He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Université Paris Diderot, Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes (Paris, France) and at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore). His research interests include parallel and distributed simulation, cybersecurity, distributed systems, and online games. He is the author of several publications on these topics. Since 2011, he is in the editorial board (area editor) of the Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT) journal published by Elsevier. In the years he has taught many graduate and undergraduate courses on computer and network security, cybersecurity, computer networks, simulation, algorithms, and data structures.

Paola Manes is Full Professor of Private Law at the University of Bologna. Lawyer, Bologna Court. LLM King’s College London. She has been Visiting Professor at Brunel University London.
She has been a member of the board of directors of Unipol Group, Unipolbanca S.p.a., Prontoassistance S.p.a. and is an independent director and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Unipolrec S.p.a Alternate Auditor of Unicredit S.p.a Member of the Supervisory Body of Philips Innovation S.p.a.
She has been one of the arbitration experts of the International Chamber of Commerce in London and has been invited as a guest lecturer at several European universities such as King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oslo, HTW University Berlin, IE University Madrid. She has participated with the University of Bologna in the Allen and Overy “World Universities Comparative Law Project”.
She is author of several articles on important national and international journals (EBLR) and of monographs on commercial law, comparative law, family law, trust law, corporate law, and European insurance law. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Contratto e Impresa, Contratto e Impresa Europa and is a referee of the journal Famiglia e diritto.

Gianluca Moro (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Data Mining at the University of Bologna, and carries out teaching and research activities in the areas of machine learning, data mining, text analytics & deep learning for natural language processing. His scientific contributions focus also on supervised and semi-supervised methods for dealing with domains lacking or with insufficient labeled data, the main drawback that prevents the applicability to real-life problems of the most powerful supervised machine learning solutions as well. In particular, he contributed to approaches for transfer learning from source domains of pre-labeled data to semantically different target domains with unlabelled data. He worked for several European, national and industrial research projects, heading also research units and supervising Ph.D. students, in particular recently GenData on data-driven genomic computing, Toreador for advanced business analytics, LAILA for legal text analytics, RINGRID, DORII and Autonomic Security regarding grid computing and data-centric sensor networks. He organised and chaired several editions of international conferences, such as ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Database Information Systems and P2P Computing, etc. He co-authored seventy scientific publications in international conferences, workshops, books, and journals, co-edited five books and has served in more than fifty programme committees among international conferences, workshops and as journal referee.

11:45 AM [CET]
Group 2 - Faculty staff teaching on Master in Data Science and Business Analytics who deliver a particular course/module in the programme
Qualifications and experience; relevant scholarly activity; pedagogical approaches; student support

Aula della Caccia (first floor)

Umut Konus is Associate Professor and Researcher of Marketing Analytics & Digital Business, and Programme Director of Bachelor Programmes in Business Analytics at University of Amsterdam. At Bologna Business School, Umut is Visiting Professor for Professional Masters and Global MBA. He lives and works in the Netherlands where he holds tenure as Associate Professor at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. Umut completed his Ph.D. at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in 2010 and his dissertation titled “Essays on Multichannel Customer Behavior” received the award of best Ph.D. thesis in e-Marketing, e-commerce and cross channel awarded with the Golden Cube by the French Direct Marketing Association in October 2010.
He currently delivers courses on Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Analytics and Marketing & Customer Models/Analytics. His research has been published in numerous journals such as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing and Int. Journal of Electronic Commerce. His current research focuses on omnichannel marketing, customer-journey & experience modeling, customer choice, retention, churn and life-time value models, with particular focus on online and mobile platforms by using structured-unstructured large data sets including transactional, clickstream, online-session and textual (reviews and social media posts) data. Before his academic career, he worked as an Practitioner/Executive for marketing research agencies MORI and GfK.

Azzurra Meoli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna, where she earned a Ph.D. in Management in March 2018. Her research focuses on explaining the process by which individuals decide to start an entrepreneurial career. In particular, she investigates the entrepreneurial behavior among graduates. She has been Visiting Scholar for a year at the Whitman School of Business, Syracuse University. Her works are presented at the BCERC, AOM, DRUID and published in the relevant journal as Journal of Business Venturing and Research Policy. In addition to academic research and teaching, Azzurra is professionally involved in the academic spin-off VeNice.

Edoardo Vincenzo Mollona is Adjunct Professor of Business Economics at the Department of Computer Science – Science and Engineering (DISI) of the University of Bologna. He graduated from the University Luigi Bocconi and was awarded his Ph.D. in Decision Science/Strategic Management at London Business School. He teaches Business Strategy and Computational Analysis of Strategic Scenarios. His research interests include strategic change in companies, analysis of strategic and socio-political scenarios and the long-term sustainability of business strategy.

Sara Zanni is Junior Assistant Professor at Department of Management at University of Bologna and member of the Bologna Business School Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change. Experience as practitioner in the field of sustainability measurement at company’s and industrial ecosystems’ level, evaluation the life cycle of products and processes, environmental risk assessment and decontamination of environmental matrices. She completed her Ph.D. in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna in 2017 on testing and validating innovative biotechnologies for environmental remediation. She was Climate Kic Pioneer in 2015. She is currently Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, University of Bologna, involved in several research projects at national and international level, such as “Flagship Reindustrialise”, financed by EU Commission through the EIT Climate-KIC, and the Observatory “Sustainability Measurement and Management Laboratory (SuMM Lab)”. She has published several scientific articles on international peer reviewed journals and participated in many international conferences. She holds courses and seminars on Business Sustainability, sustainability measurement and Life Cycle Assessment at undergraduate and executive level at the University of Bologna, Bologna Business School and other research entities at national and international level.

1:00 PM [CET]
Buffet lunch
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

1:45 PM [CET]
Group 1 - Students on Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII
Student experience

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

1:45 PM [CET]
Group 2 - Students on Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII
Student experience

Aula della Caccia (first floor)

Gabriel Lucian Ghiunghius has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance from Tor Vergata University of Rome.
During the university years, in 2016, he started a business in the construction industry. In 2018 he worked for six months at Youtility S.r.L. where he had the opportunity to face for the first time an office work environment. After this experience, in the same year, he started to work until 2020 as a waiter at Champagne Pub.
In the academic year 2022/23 he attended the Master in Data Science and Business Analytics at Bologna Business School.
In December he will start his internship as a Business Analyst at Intesa San Paolo in Milan: in the Planning and Control Field, he is in charge of activities like providing trimestral reports from subsidiaries, keeping monitor market trends and relationships with customers.
He is passionate about finance, and he is a member of Starting Finance Club, an organisation which promotes financial acknowledge in Italy through meetings and events.

Pietro Godowicz, 23 years old, was born in Ferrara but raised in Genova from an Italian mother and a Polish father. He pursued a Scientific High School Diploma in 2018 and after that, he got his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance from the Università degli Studi di Genova.
After his graduation he wanted to discover the world of Data Science and, accordingly, he did two online certificate courses, the first one in Data Analysis for Management delivered by the LSE and the second one in Business Analytics from Harvard Business School.
Since he gained interest in this topic, he chose to deepen his knowledge by enrolling in the Master’s Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics at Bologna Business School by also being awarded a merit scholarship. Currently, he is doing an internship that will last till the beginning of January, at Deloitte Risk Advisory, and he looks forward to continuing working there after this period because it is a great position to put together what he has learned in all the different steps of his study path.
Pietro’s hobbies are mainly music and sports, he enjoys playing the piano and producing music and he likes to practice many sports, especially basketball.

Srinivas Jagarlapoodi is a highly skilled and experienced Data Scientist and Business Analyst passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world problems. He attended the Master of Data Science and Business Analytics in the a.y. 2022/23 at Bologna Business School and currently he is a Data Science Intern at Panini S.p.a. in Modena, Italy.
His interest in data science began during his Ph.D. in Biomolecular and Pharmaceutical Sciences, where he used data science techniques to analyse complex biological systems.
Dr. Jagarlapoodi was drawn to the Master of Data Science and Business Analytics programme at Bologna Business School because of its strong focus on technical skills and business acumen. He is eager to learn from world-renowned faculty and gain the skills necessary to become a leader in the data science field.
At Panini S.p.a., he is working on a variety of projects related to data science and machine learning. He is also gaining valuable experience working with a team of data scientists and engineers to solve real-world problems.
As a Data Scientist in the tech or consulting industry, he is passionate about using data to solve real-world problems and make a positive impact on the world.

Daniela Malavita is a Finance graduate. She attended the Master Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics of Bologna Business School in the a.y. 2022/23.
She is currently working as an Analyst for Deloitte Risk Advisory, specifically in the “Digital Controls – Insurance” department. She started her new work journey in September 2023, but she is already actively participating in digital transformation and automatisation of actuarial, employee monitoring and risk assessment-related projects.
She worked as an insurance and financial consultant for two years prior enrolling in the Master Programme, and she passed the qualifying exams with full marks. During this experience, she acquired valuable knowledge related to wealth management and the insurance system and its regulatory framework. During her Bachelor studies, she worked for an accountancy firm, where she learned the basics of reporting and invoicing. She also took part in an internship programme with a UN member organisation in Japan at the Italian Embassy, where she had the opportunity to learn how Italian enterprises work overseas and to interact with organisations such as the JiCA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and the IOM (International Organisation for Migration).

Enrique Marenco is a Nicaraguan young professional residing in Italy and professionally based in Austria. He is currently doing his internship period to conclude the Master’s in Data Science and Business Analytics at Bologna Business School. During his tenure here, Enrique was honoured with a merit scholarship and was elected to represent his colleagues as the Class Representative for the programme.

Currently, he is working in the Finance and Operations Area as an Intern at Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in Austria and has recently been offered a full-time position as a Consultant. Prior to his move to Italy, he served as the Administrative Director of an educational institution, leading its digital transformation in administrative processes. His academic background is in Finance and Management. When he is not talking about the latest AI breakthrough, Enrique is deeply interested in philosophy, astronomy, and music.

Anastasia Zorina has gained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the American University of Rome with honours in the major. She is attending the Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics at Bologna Business School.
Her previous work experience includes merchandise sales and administration as well as in tourist-oriented social media management. Currently, she is working as a Data Analyst Intern at Creactives, a Verona-based artificial intelligence company specialising in implementing AI and other techniques for supply chain digitisation and data procurement. Her responsibilities include data categorisation and extraction, managing missing data and duplicates, and supporting the company’s ongoing projects.
Anastasia enjoys cooking, travelling and listening to music.

2:30 PM [CET]
Peer Review Team further assessment of Master in Data Science and Business Analytics materials and student work
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

3:30 PM [CET]
Group 1 - Information & library resources; technology for pedagogy
Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Martina Carissimi studied Languages for Intercultural and Business Communication at the University of Siena. During her studies, she spent six months in Germany, attending the Heinrich Heine Universität in Düsseldorf. She later earned her Master’s Degree in Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners at the University of Bologna.
Martina works at Bologna Business School as a Tutor in the Professional Masters area.

Edoardo Casella is a digital business consultant with experience in CRM and Marketing. His current role at Bologna Business School is leading a project of Business Digitalisation centered on the Salesforce CRM. The challenge has been to improve and always renew a system to track the customer lifecycle across all the touchpoints with the School, from a cold lead to a passionate alumnus, finding valuable insights for the business leveraging data and building a modern digital environment to support operations.
He developed his core competencies in a couple of entrepreneurial activities, both characterised by a digital business model based on e-commerce in the fashion and sporting goods industry. During these experiences, it was vital for the companies to bootstrap internal knowledge as much as possible; that’s why he has a transversal set of skills from Marketing to Data and Digital company systems. He’s interested in startups and the growth hacking methodology.
A strongly oriented practical approach has always characterised his career that started right after college. He always preferred learning by doing instead of the classic job straight out of university. He managed to earn his Master’s Degree in Business Administration cum laude at the University of Bologna while working fully on his personal projects.
In his free time, he’s an experienced and tireless sailboats skipper and a passionate basketball player.

Michele Ferrari is responsible for the operational management of the school. He is in charge of managing general services, logistics, services to Faculty members, students, and employees.
Furthermore, he is in charge of the new Campus project, dealing with the assignment of the works, verifying the correct execution, ensuring the administrative process related to the tenders.
Michele has acquired solid experience in the field of personal services with a high experiential value in 20 years in the luxury hotel sector, holding senior management roles in Italy and abroad up to Managing Director of a chain of 21 hotels.
His professional areas of interest are related to the interaction between hardware and software within the Customer experience. Furthermore, he is passionate about the implications of the principles of pro-action in creating the value chain and the consequent central role of the customer in the dual producer-consumer function.
Michele graduated from the University of Bologna in Economics and obtained a specialisation in Economics of Services for Tourism.
Subsequently, he obtained the Executive Master in Business Administration from the Bologna Business School.
Michele is a Travel enthusiast and cultural discoverer.

Sara Stano obtained her Master’s Degree in Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners from the University of Bologna in 2021. The results obtained during her academic career led her to obtain the America Giovani Award for academic talent and a scholarship from the Italy USA Foundation to attend the Master “Leadership for International Relations and Made in Italy”. She has national civil service experience in the United Kingdom, where she carried out information and support activities on welfare for the local Italian community and the promotion of Italian culture.
Since 2022 Sara has been working at Bologna Business School as a Programme Manager in the MBAs area. Specifically, she is responsible for communication with participants and teachers, assists in distance and in-presence teaching, collaborates with members of the team and she’s responsible for the coordination of International Week.

3:30 PM [CET]
Group 2 - Financial resources, generalised student support & services
Aula della Caccia (first floor)

Barbara Biondi has a Bachelor’s Degree in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation obtained at the University of Bologna. During her academic path, she spent six months as an exchange student at the University of Hull, UK. Recently, she obtained an MBA at Bologna Business School (part-time formula). Barbara has been working at Bologna Business School since 2014. After three years as Programme Manager of the Global MBA, she became Head of Global MBA for three years and a half. Currently, Barbara is the Head of International Development of the School. She works with the Associate Dean for International Development and is in charge of the agreements with foreign business schools and the recruitment of international students. She assists international Faculty in administrative procedures and supports all business units to respect and implement international processes.

Federica Giannattasio is graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she then earned a master’s degree in Political Science of International Relations from the University of International Studies in Rome. With work experience as an analyst for a major IT consulting company, she then approached the world of Information Technology, adding technical skills to her humanistic background. She joined the BBS Team in 2023 as a Programme Manager in the Professional Master’ area.

Ilaria Manghi is Co-Managing Director for Management Systems, Finance and HR. She ss also Project Leader of the Digital Transformation of the School.
She is Responsible for defining strategic lines for business development – as well as their implementation – and for the optimisation of business processes, as well as their formalisation also at management systems side.
She has a role of coordination and support in relations between the School, the University, institutions and stakeholders in compliance with the School’s procedures.
Since April 2018, she is a member of the Assembly of Founders and of the Supervisory Board.
Since joining Bologna Business School in 2008, she has been working as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer before eventually holding her current positions.
Ilaria has solid skills in P&L and Financial Management, Operations Project and Facility Management, and People Management.
She has strong analysis, planning and synthesis skills.
Passionate for People with an innate attitude to manage innovative projects and change in cross-functional team.
She has acquired experience thanks to 8 years of experience as Controller in the luxury goods industry, first in Ferrari and then in Ferretti Group (world leader luxury yacths).
Ilaria graduated from the University of Bologna in Management Engineering and obtained a Corporate Executive MBA at Bologna Business School.
She is passionate about sports and travel.

Valentina Muzzi, after graduating in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Bologna, moved to Madrid to specialise in Spanish Literature, at the Universidad Complutense.
After 4 years of experience as a teacher, she returned to Bologna in 2014 to open her own company in the language training sector for individuals and companies. For the past 7 years, she has been mainly involved in the communication and customer journey of students, as well as in the creation and planning of tailor-made language paths. She is passionate about art, literature, and sports.
Since 2022, she has joined the Bologna Business School Team in the MBAs area.

4:30 PM [CET]
Site visit

5:00 PM [CET]
Further discussion with the Programme Directors (If required by the PRT)
Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Andrea Lipparini (Ph.D.) is Full Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Bologna. He is the Associate Dean for MBAs at Bologna Business School, where he directs the Executive Master in Business Administration. He has been visiting scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and visiting researcher at the Tuck School in Dartmouth (US). He won the title of ‘Best Professor’ for the Master Degree in Management at the University of Bologna (2018), ‘Best Professor’ for the Corporate MBA at Ferrari (2021), and the ‘Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching’ at BBS. He has published books and articles in several languages on the topics of strategy, high-performance teams, and business-to-business networks. He has been a member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ducati Motor, as well as co-founder of Ducati Consulting. He has been a member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of Air Dolomiti (Lufthansa Group) and of the Board of Directors of Human Company. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning and Economia & Management. Andrea is also a member of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. He works with major organisations to develop the leadership skills and distinctive competencies of their managers.

Claudio Sartori is a Machine Learning and Informatics Full Professor at the University of Bologna. At Bologna Business School, he is the Scientific Director of the Master in Data Science and Business Analytics and Consultant for activities in the Data Science area. He holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering (Italian title obtained in 1981). He is Visiting Professor at Technical University Federigo Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile. Claudio was also Responsible for the Observatory on Technological Innovation for the EULA-GTEC Erasmus + Project, whose goal is the design and launching of an Observatory or Antenna that allow perceiving training problems among managers (to improve training offers) and identifying SMEs demands, which are not clearly revealed (to improve demand identification). The Observatory also contribute to the employability of graduates creating links with the SMEs labour market. Claudio conducts Joint Research Cooperation with the Department of Informatics, Technical University Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile and Universitè de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.

7:30 PM [CET]
Dinner in private room for the Peer Review Team alone for discussion and evaluation of Master in Data Science and Business Analytics

9:00 AM [CET]
Staff responsible across all programmes for Quality Assurance
Quality processes and systems covering teaching quality, assessment consistency, programme reviews

Aula del Progetto (first floor)

At BBS, Francesca is in charge of Quality Services and Accreditations. She joined the Bologna Business School in 2020, and since then, her primary focus has been on quality processes and EQUIS accreditation.
Before arriving at BBS, Francesca worked for more than ten years at Politecnico di Milano School of Management. She was responsible for the School’s accreditations, faculty management, and international student office.
At the educational level, she has a post lauream professional master in Internationalisation of SMEs at Profingest and an MSc in Political Science at the University of Bologna.

Najada Muhaxhiri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology, Religions and Oriental Civilisations and a Master’s Degree in Global Cultures, both from the University of Bologna. During her academic training, she spent ten months in Belgium as an exchange student at the University of Ghent, specialising in the Sociology of Globalisation. She then worked as a Tutor at the Medical Center of the University of Bologna.
Najada has worked at Bologna Business School since February 2022, serving first as a Tutor and then as a Programme Manager in the Professional Masters Business Unit. Since April 2023, Najada has been a Quality Services and Accreditations Project Manager.

Maurizio Sobrero (Ph.D. MIT) is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Bologna and Associate Dean for Accreditations and QS at Bologna Business School. He has collaborated with numerous government institutions in Italy and abroad in the development of policies for research and innovation. He has taught in South America, Africa, China and several European countries, carried out consultancy and advisory services for various companies and institutions in Italy and abroad and he has worked as an Independent Director in various companies.

10:00 AM [CET]
Final discussions and preparation of feedback
Sala delle Virtù (first floor)

12:00 PM [CET]
Oral feedback to the Institution by the Peer Review Team
Aula del Progetto (first floor)

Massimo Bergami is Full Professor of Organisational Behavior and the Dean of Bologna Business School, where he is also the Programme Director of the Ferrari Corporate EMBA. His research interests focus on social identity in organisation and organisational participation.
He is member of the Board of Directors at EFMD and the Founding Chair of the EMBA Consortium for Global Business Innovation.
He has accumulated significant international experiences at the University of Michigan, University of Florida, New York University and Bocconi University. He also is a Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and at MIRBIS (Moscow, Russia). He has been awarded the title of Knight Commander of the Italian Republic.
Massimo has extensive experience as non-executive director in public companies and as a top management consultant. He served as advisor of the Italian Government between 1996 and 2014.
He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Bologna.
Massimo is married to Ludovica, a creative researcher from Naples; they are the lucky parents of Giovanni Romano, a bright and lovely 8-year-old. Friends, jazz, food, wine, motors, and traveling color his life.

Michele Coco is Head of Professional Masters at Bologna Business School. He organises, coordinates and supervises activities in the Professional Masters Business Unit. His experience in BBS began in 2015, initially as Programme Manager of several undergraduate programmes, and then he became Head of the Full-time Masters. After a one-year interlude as Head of Faculty Office and HR Manager, since 2021 he is again in charge of overseeing the Professional Masters Business Unit.
Michele obtained a Master’s Degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Bologna, and during his studies he spent a semester as an exchange student at the Université Catholique in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In 2021, he attended the MBA in a part-time formula at Bologna Business School.
He has been involved in education since his early university years, with some collaborations as a tutor for master’s degrees (2012-2013) and Italy-US international exchange projects (2009).
Michele loves music and has been collecting 60s and 70s vinyl records for several years and occasionally he plays them in public as a DJ.

Francesca Guzzinati is in charge of Quality Services and Accreditations at Bologna Business School. She joined the Bologna Business School in 2020, and since then, her primary focus has been on quality processes and EQUIS accreditation.
Before arriving at BBS, Francesca worked for more than ten years at Politecnico di Milano School of Management. She was responsible for the School’s accreditations, faculty management, and international student office.
At the educational level, she has a post lauream professional Master in Internationalisation of SMEs at Profingest and an MSc in Political Science at the University of Bologna.

Andrea Lipparini (Ph.D.) is Full Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Bologna. He is the Associate Dean for MBAs at Bologna Business School, where he directs the Executive Master in Business Administration. He has been visiting scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and visiting researcher at the Tuck School in Dartmouth (US). He won the title of ‘Best Professor’ for the Master Degree in Management at the University of Bologna (2018), ‘Best Professor’ for the Corporate MBA at Ferrari (2021), and the ‘Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching’ at BBS. He has published books and articles in several languages on the topics of strategy, high-performance teams, and business-to-business networks. He has been a member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ducati Motor, as well as co-founder of Ducati Consulting. He has been a member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of Air Dolomiti (Lufthansa Group) and of the Board of Directors of Human Company. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning and Economia & Management. Andrea is also a member of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. He works with major organisations to develop the leadership skills and distinctive competencies of their managers.

Claudio Sartori is a Machine Learning and Informatics Full Professor at the University of Bologna. At Bologna Business School, he is the Scientific Director of the Master in Data Science and Business Analytics and Consultant for activities in the Data Science area. He holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering (Italian title obtained in 1981). He is Visiting Professor at Technical University Federigo Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile. Claudio was also Responsible for the Observatory on Technological Innovation for the EULA-GTEC Erasmus + Project, whose goal is the design and launching of an Observatory or Antenna that allow perceiving training problems among managers (to improve training offers) and identifying SMEs demands, which are not clearly revealed (to improve demand identification). The Observatory also contribute to the employability of graduates creating links with the SMEs labour market. Claudio conducts Joint Research Cooperation with the Department of Informatics, Technical University Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile and Universitè de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.

Maurizio Sobrero (Ph.D. MIT) is a Professor of Business and Management Engineering at the University of Bologna and Associate Dean for Accreditations and QS at Bologna Business School. Between 2012 and 2015 he helped found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow as a Distinguished Faculty Fellow for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has collaborated with numerous government institutions in Italy and abroad in the development of policies for research and innovation. He has taught in South America, Africa, China and several European countries, carried out consultancy and advisory services for various companies and institutions in Italy and abroad and he has worked as an Independent Director in various companies.

Francesca Zuffi is Head of MBAs Business Unit at Bologna Business School.
She started her career at BBS in 2010 as a Programme Manager of several MBA programmes; in 2015 she became the Head of Executive MBA, and since 2019, she has been responsible for the entire Business Unit.
Francesca oversees the strategic and organisational coordination of the area, plans sales targets, carries out market analyses, forecasts, and budgets, and manages a team with which she designs, develops, and implements excellence in training courses aimed at executives, managers and entrepreneurs.
Since beginning her educational career, she has been oriented towards the world of training and people management, first with a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna, then specialising with a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management at Bologna Business School.
Throughout her career, Francesca has strengthened the competence, passion and reliability which characterise her, turning them into valuable professional strengths.

EFMD Programme Accreditation Executive MBA & Master in Data Science & Business Analytics | Peer Review Visit
November 27 - 30, 2023

PRV SCHEDULE

BASE ROOM

VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOUR

Executive MBA XX - Closing Master

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - Students 2022/23

Executive MBA XX - Team Building 2022

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Class 2023/24

Executive MBA XXI - Cave lesson

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Team Building 2023

Executive MBA XX - Class 2022/23

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - Kick Off 2022

Executive MBA XXI - International Week 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Kick Off 2023

Executive MBA XXI - Company Visit in Datalogic 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Students 2023/24

Executive MBA XXI - Team Building 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - TXT Hackathon

PRV
schedule

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

EFMD Programme Accreditation Executive MBA & Master in Data Science & Business Analytics | Peer Review Visit November 27 - 30, 2023

PRV SCHEDULE

BASE ROOM

VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOUR

Executive MBA XX - Closing Master

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - Students 2022/23

Executive MBA XX - Team Building 2022

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Class 2023/24

Executive MBA XXI - Cave lesson

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Team Building 2023

Executive MBA XX - Class 2022/23

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - Kick Off 2022

Executive MBA XXI - International Week 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Kick Off 2023

Executive MBA XXI - Company Visit in Datalogic 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics IX - Students 2023/24

Executive MBA XXI - Team Building 2023

Master in Data Science and Business Analytics VIII - TXT Hackathon

PRV schedule

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ms. Francesca Guzzinati

Ms. Najada Muhaxhiri

Prof. Maurizio Sobrero

Prof. Maurizio Gabbrielli

Prof. Paola Giuri

Prof. Gabriele Morandin

Prof. Emanuele Bajo

Prof. Massimo Bergami

Prof. Romano Prodi

Mr. Franco Valentini

Mr. Alessio Cavallini

Prof. Andrea Lipparini

Prof. Riccardo Silvi

Ms. Francesca Zuffi

Prof. Filippo Boccali

Prof. Daniela Bolzani

Prof. Lorenzo Massa

Prof. Chiara Orsingher

Mr. Umberto Tossini

Prof. Roberta Gabrielli

Prof. Massimiliano Ghini

Prof. Matteo Mura

Prof. Alec Ross

Prof. Franco Visani

Mr. Marco Bagato

Mr. Elia Bianco

Ms. Elisa Cattaneo

Mr. Marco Della Porta

Mr. Renzo Patelli

Ms. Laura Sacchetti

Mr. Gian Luca Antinori

Ms. Guendalina Bosco

Ms. Mitzi Dall’Aste Brandolini

Ms. Barbara Cenerelli

Mr. Marco Andrea Ferri

Mr. Lodovico Menozzi

Mr. Giovanni Tamburini

Ms. Nirvana Bertolin

Ms. Simona Bonini

Mr. Alessandro Evangelista

Mr. Francesco Frieri

Mr. Aish Kumar Jesrani

Ms. Stefania Barzanti

Mr. Pier Francesco Melucci

Mr. Gianmarco Messori

Ms. Margherita Montanari

Mr. Matteo Poli

Ms. Sidorela Topi

Ms. Elena Zeni

Ms. Elena Alberti

Mr. Federico Baffetti

Mr. Claudio Barbagallo

Mr. Ugo Canonico

Ms. Monica Castoldi

Mr. Stefano Da Col

Mr. Alessandro De Pestel

Mr. Filippo Finocchiaro

EFMD Programme Accreditation Executive MBA & Master in Data Science & Business Analytics | Peer Review Visit
November 27 - 30, 2023

PRV
schedule