Simone
Ferriani


Simone Ferriani
ITALY Full Professor of Management University of Bologna Adjunct Faculty
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Simone is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Bologna and at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University and a lifetime member of Clare-Hall College, University of Cambridge (UK). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Simone has held visiting positions at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Stern School of Business (New York University), and at the Sociology Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

COURSES

INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL SESSIONS – The strategic and operational elements that distinguish new enterprise creation: the articulation of the business concept, the business model, defining the organizational structure, research and the collection of financial resources, and the development of a business plan. The goal is to expose participants to an orientation of entrepreneurship ways to develop personal skills and to provide them with the conceptual and practical steps to launch a start-up or create a business from within a corporate context, a spin-off/corporate venturing, through a combination of lectures, group work, sharing of practices, discussion of case studies and testimonials from successful entrepreneurs. The course is intended to support participants in the preparation of project work.