Rooted in the knowledge base of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the Western world, the Centre aims to become a European benchmark in translating interdisciplinary and cutting edge research on ethics, responsibility and sustainability into management education programs and initiatives, thus providing a positive impact on business communities and society.
The centre has been established in partnership with the University of Bologna, and is specifically concerned with the design, implementation and deployment of ERS-related initiatives – Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability – for BBS students, alumni, business network and society.
Employs 10 full-time Assistant Professors from different research fields (i.e., management, economics, engineering, law, physics, geography, geology, health) all related to ethics, responsibility and sustainability principles. These researchers are part of BBS’s faculty and contribute significantly to the development of ERS initiatives of the School.
The Centre:
Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (ERS) are core principles in everything the Centre does that cross-fertilise all actions related to teaching, research, community engagement and outreach, and in all our operations and the management education we offer. We aim to help our students incorporate ERS values into their management mindset and practice.
BBS ERS strategy revolves around three main pillars:
place in Europe for the university's commitment to sustainable development*
programmes specifically designed around sustainability, social innovation and enviromental responsability
years of experience in sustainability education
programmes integrated a course on Business Ethics and Sustainability
of students are exposed to ERS issues during their studies
*The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, ed. 2020.
The Centre has established the Observatory on Business Sustainability and it currently assesses 4,000 Italian companies against 67 sustainability metrics. Every month, the Observatory releases a report that describes the state of sustainable business across different industrial sectors. The data collected through the Observatory contribute towards advancing academic research on sustainability, circular economy and industrial transition; the data also support the dissemination of ERS principles across the BBS business community and society at large.
Talks and testimonials of BBS guests, who constantly inspire the Community through experiences and stories about Innovation and Sustainability.
Italian and international institutions support the Centre in translating interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research on ethics, social responsibility and sustainability providing a positive impact on business communities and society.
Professors and researchers of the University of Bologna in partnership with Bologna Business School represent the backbone of the BBS Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change and are the main contributors of teaching activities and applied research.
Director of BBS Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change and Professor of Management Engineering at the Department of Management, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Research Fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Departemet of Specialist, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Research Fellow at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Research Fellow at the Department of Business Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Adjunct Professor at the Departement of Legal Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Associate Professor of Management Engineering at the Department of Management of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Scientific Director of the Full-time Business Management Master and Full Professor of Marketing and Management at the Department of Management of , Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Assistant Professor in Organization and Human Resource Management at the Departement of Management of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and Bologna Business School.
Executive Director of Executive Master in Sustainability and Business Innovation.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Executive Director of Executive Master in Sustainability Transition Management and Industry Leader of Global MBA in Green Energy and Sustainable Businesses.
Research Fellow at the Department of Business Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Assistant Professor at the Department of History Cultures Civilizations, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
LEARNING
Learning refers to core educational activities of BBS.
DISSEMINATION
BBS is committed to promoting and disseminating the principles of ethics, responsibility and sustainability among its students, business partners and wider society.
IMPACT
A set of initiatives and projects that BBS carries out to impact its major stakeholders, and attest that ethics, responsibility and sustainability are being implemented within BBS daily operations.
Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Management Engineering at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Business Performance of the Cranfield School of Management. He carries out research on topics of circular economy, sustainable industrial transition and measures of business performance. He is currently engaged in a European project aimed at decarbonising high-carbon European industrial sectors. He teaches Management Control Systems at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna.
She graduated cum Laude in Energy Engineering in 2013 and obtained a PhD in Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Sciences (DIMSAI) at the University of Bologna in 2018. She carries out research on topics of energy systems and sustainability, smart energy networks, storage systems and renewable energies. She is currently involved in a European project aimed at decarbonizing gas turbines based systems thanks to the green hydrogen production and employment.
Biotechnologist, she worked in several research institutions and she is part of the Mediterranean Center for Disease Control. Her research is mainly addressed to the study of the pathogenic mechanisms of infectious diseases and the application of a One Health approach for pathogen surveillance programs, impacting veterinary and Public health, zoonosis, emerging and re-emerging animal and human diseases.
Davide obtained a bachelor degree in Earth Sciences (2010) and a master degree in Engineering Geology and Land Management (2012) at the University of Bologna (Italy). After a two-years consulting experience in Italy, he pursued and obtained a PhD in remote sensing and rock mechanics at the Simon Fraser University (British Columbia). During his PhD and the following post-doctoral research career, he collaborated in various national and international research projects focused on the stability of stability and evolution of large landslides.
Eleonora Foschi is an environmental engineer with expertise in the field of circular and bio-economy. She got a PhD at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on System innovation and life cycle thinking in plastics value chain. During the post-doc at the Department of Management, she advanced the research on business models for the circular economy. She is involved in many EU projects and collaborates with a multitude of national and international public and private institutions.
He graduated with honours from the University of Bologna (2009) and holds an LL.M. in International Commercial Law from King’s College London (2009). He gained his Ph.D. in Company Law and Financial Markets Regulation from the University of Bologna (2014), during which he spent a research semester at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences Library (2012).
He was Academic Visitor to the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford with an MCR Fellowship from Jesus College (2016-2017), a Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa, Israel (2018) and a lecturer at the European Master’s in Law and Economics (2015-2018).
Riccardo’s research has been published in the foremost Italian and European law journals. His main areas of interests include directors’ duties, European company law, the regulation of financial advice and sustainable corporate governance.
He is admitted to the Italian Bar and worked for a top-tier law firm.
Jelena Loncarski received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering (DEI), University of Bologna, in 2014. In April 2014, she joined the Department of Engineering Sciences, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where she is now visiting researcher. She is currently a researcher with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna.
Her research focuses on the topics of Business Performance Measurement, Sustainable Industrial Transition and Circular Economy. She teaches Business Management at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna.
Professor of Economics and Business at the Department of Management, University of Bologna He obtained a PhD in Economics-Marketing at London Business School in 1993. He is Director of the Master in Business Management, Director of the Department of Management, Bologna branch. His research includes branding, distribution network management and strategic international marketing; he is a consultant in business administration and marketing in different industries. He has been Commissioner of Parmalat SPA and he is a Board Member at Datalogic Spa.
General Secretary of Impronta Etica, she has been dealing with social responsibility since 1996, at a national and international levels, taking part in several networks. Initially, a consultant on the themes of Accountability, with a particular focus on stakeholders involvement and SA8000, she then moved to work on social policies for Coop and she is currently Sustainability Officer for Unipol.
He holds a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Naples “Federico II” and a Ph.D. in Meteorology awarded by the University of Reading, UK. He was a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology with a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship from 2015 to 2017, an associate research scholar at Princeton University and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory from 2017 to 2019 and a research scientist at Stanford University from 2019 to 2021. His research interests lie in understanding the impact of climate change and variability on the hydroclimate and extreme events.
CEO of Camfridge Ltd which aims to become the world-wide leader in high efficient gas-free refrigeration technology based on magnetic properties of solid state materials. Alessandro Pastore developed his professional carrier internationally having lived and worked in Italy, France, Brazil, Argentina, Germany and UK. Before co-founding Camfridge in 2005 he had been holding the position of Vice President at Siemens Communications for 7 years. He started his professional career at the Telecom Italia Research Lab formerly known as CSELT. Alessandro got a PhD in Automatic Control from Politecnico di Torino and an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs, Paris.
Researcher and practitioner in the field of sustainability assessment, Life Cycle Assessment, environmental risk assessment and remediation. She completed her PhD in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at DICAM, University of Bologna in 2017. She has been a Climate Kic Pioneer in 2015. She is currently Research Fellow Professor at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna, involved into several research projects, such as EIT Climate Kic Flagship “Re-Industrialise “and Sustainability Measurement and Management Laboratory “SuMM Lab”. She is faculty member for Part Time MBA, Hybrid MBA in Sustainability Transition Management and tutor in Executive Master in Sustainability and Business Innovation.
RTD-A in Geography at the Department of History, Cultures, Civilizations of the Alma Mater – University of Bologna and Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Global Development, University of Manchester. Ph.D in Human Geography (2014) at the Universities of Fribourg and Verona, he held post-doctoral fellowships at the CNRS in Paris (2015), at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen (2016), at the University of Manchester (2017) and at the University of Bologna (2018-2020).
