Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in
Italian
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as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a
private university
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in
Milan
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, Italy. The university is consistently ranked as the top
business school
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in Italy and among the best in the world.
The university provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law,
business administration
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Overview
The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
,
management
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,
political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
,
public administration
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,
information science,
data science
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, and
computer science
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. Bocconi is a founding member of
CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education
CEMS – The Global Alliance in Management Education or CEMS (formerly the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies) is a cooperation of leading business schools and universities with multinational companies and NGOs. ...
, and the university through its graduate
business school
A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, s ...
,
SDA Bocconi School of Management
SDA Bocconi School of Management (SDA standing for Scuola di Direzione Aziendale) was founded in 1971 and is the graduate business school of Bocconi University in Milan and Rome, Italy. SDA Bocconi is Triple accreditation, triple accredited by t ...
, has received
triple accreditation
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from the
AACSB
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,
EQUIS
The EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) is a business school accreditation managed by Brussels based EFMD. It provides accreditation for higher education institutions of management and business administration and is run by the European Fou ...
, and the
AMBA where it offers
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...
,
Executive MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...
,
DBA,
professional development
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,
executive education
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, and
professional certification
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programs.
History

Bocconi University was founded in 1902 by
Ferdinando Bocconi and was named after his son, who died in the
Battle of Adwa
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during the
First Italo-Ethiopian War
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. The university was originally affiliated with the
Polytechnic University of Milan
The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...
engineering school and incorporated a teaching model that was based on what was in use at the École Supérieure of
Antwerp
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.
Campus

The campus was originally located in Via Statuto near the
Pinacoteca di Brera
The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of ...
, where its first building was inaugurated in 1902. The campus is now located beside Parco Ravizza, between Via Sarfatti and Viale Bligny and consists of several buildings within walking distance to
Porta Ticinese
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, the
Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
The Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio is a church in Milan in northern Italy, which is in the Basilicas Park city park. It was for many years an important stop for pilgrims on their journey to Rome or to the Holy Land, because it was said to contain th ...
:
*The
Sarfatti Building is the oldest building on campus. It was designed in 1936 by the Italian architect
Giuseppe Pagano
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. It contains classrooms, an aula magna, a restaurant, and most of the administrative offices. Its entrance features two lion statues which are the subject of several
university myths.
*The ''pensionato'' building, which faces Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was inaugurated in 1956 by architect Giovanni Muzio and hosts some grand halls, some of the
canteen
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* Canteen (bottle), a water container
* Cafeteria, a type of food service location within an institution in which there is little or no waiting staff table service
* A complete set of cutlery comprising knives, forks, ...
and dormitory facilities (350 bedrooms on 5 floors), and some faculty offices. The different floors have an irregular form and bear the shape of a symmetric "L" letter, which stands for Laude.
*The
SDA Bocconi building, which is also in Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was opened in 1985 and featured two blocks with a distinct set of dark metal panels. The building was extended in 2001, especially to host EGEA, the university bookstore. The campus
football pitch
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is placed between the ''pensionato'' and the
SDA Bocconi building.
*The modern ''Velodromo'' building was projected by
Ignazio Gardella
Ignazio Gardella (30 March 1905 in Milan, Lombardy – 16 March 1999) was an Italian architect and designer.
Biography
Born into a family of architects, the first of whom was his namesake (1803–1867). Gardella graduated in engineering from th ...
and opened in 2001. It is called so due to its form resembling an
ellipsoid
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An ellipsoid is a quadric surface; that is, a Surface (mathemat ...
velodrome
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. Each of its four floors has about ten classrooms with a capacity of 150. The ''Velodromo'' uses a
geothermal exchange heat pump as its
air conditioning
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system, which provides
energy conservation
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. A
marble
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statue of Ferdinando Bocconi overlooks the foyer of the ground floor.
*Close by, in Piazza Sraffa, are the
Library
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building (also built by Giovanni Muzio in 1962), the campus
chapel
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''"San Ferdinando"'', and some smaller buildings such as those with the offices of the Language Center and other
extracurricular
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activities.
*In 2007, a new building was inaugurated in Via Guglielmo Roentgen known as Grafton Building from the name of the Irish practice Grafton Architects which designed the innovative building. The Grafton Building won the "World building of the year" at the
World Architecture Festival
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2008 held in Barcelona. The new building houses the offices of the entire Faculty, with its Departments and Research Centers in Viale Bligny. Its underground levels include, in addition to the new Aula Magna, seminar rooms, a spacious foyer, an exhibition area and parking. It is situated next to the ''Velodromo''. The 2020
Pritzker Architecture Prize
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was awarded to its designers,
Yvonne Farrell
Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Mila ...
and
Shelley McNamara
Shelley McNamara (born 1952) is an Irish architect and academic. She attended University College Dublin and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Architecture. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to promine ...
of Grafton Architects.
Several other administrative and research offices of Bocconi's institutes are scattered across the area, especially around Parco Ravizza and Viale Isonzo.
Dormitories
Bocconi University provides off-campus students with approximately 1800 places in dorms. Residences for students are ''Bocconi Residence'', ''Javotte Residence'', ''Dubini Residence'', ''Spadolini Residence'', ''Arcobaleno Residence'', the more modern ''Isonzo Residence'', ''Bligny Residence'', and the latest ''Castiglioni Residence'' (inaugurated in 2018) and the former ''Kramer Residence'' (Now closed).
Academics
Undergraduate programs

The university offers four three-year undergraduate courses in
Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
which share a common basis in the first three semesters and then distinguish themselves from one another by focusing on either
Finance
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(CLEF),
Social sciences
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(CLES) or
Business administration
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Overview
The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
(CLEAM); the fourth course is entirely taught in English (BIEF) and is targeted at both international students and students pursuing an international career. Students in this course have the choice to major in
Economics
Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
,
Management
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or
Finance
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during their course of studies.
A fifth separate three-year undergraduate course in Economics focuses on the economics and management of Arts, Culture and Communication (CLEACC).
Another three-year undergraduate course is the Bachelor's in International Politics and Government (BIG), the first degree in the field of
political science
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and
international relations
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offered by the university.
Also the university offers a
Bachelor of Arts
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in partnership with
HEC Paris
HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...
. Announced in October 2023, it is focused on Data, Society & Organizations, it combines
data science
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s and
social science
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s. Students spend the first three semesters in
Italy
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and the last three in France on the
Jouy-en-Josas
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Jouy- ...
campus.
Bocconi also offers the World Bachelor in Business program, a four-year undergraduate degree developed in partnership with the
University of Southern California
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and the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991, it was the territory's third institution to be granted university status, and the firs ...
, allowing students to study across three continents and earn degrees from all three institutions.
The university also offers a five-year course in Law, which incorporates the Italian equivalents of the
Bachelor of Laws
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and the
Master of Laws
A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: ' or ') is a postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in another subject.
In many jurisdi ...
.
The bachelor's degrees in finance (BIEF) has been recognized by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (
CFA Institute
The CFA Institute is a global, not-for-profit professional organization that provides investment professionals with finance education. The institute aims to promote standards in ethics, education, and professional excellence in the global investme ...
). The partnership is granted to programs which cover at least 70% of the content necessary to take the CFA Program Exam level III, the highest level.
In a joint venture with the
Central European University
Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...
of
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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, Bocconi also offers a four-year ''Dual Degree in International Business'', the first two years of which are spent in Budapest and the latter in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
.
Graduate programs
The Bocconi Graduate School mainly offers master programs taught in English, with some also in Italian:
*International Management;
*CEMS MIM Program
*China MIM Program
*Management (English and Italian);
*ESSEC – Bocconi Double Degree
*Marketing Management (English and Italian);
*Accounting, Financial Management and Control (English and Italian);
*Finance (English and Italian);
*Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment;
*Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication;
*Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations
*Economics and Social Sciences;
*Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology;
*Data Science and Business Analytics;
*Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance
*LSE – Bocconi Double Degree;
*Sciences Po – Bocconi Double Degree;
*Law and Business Administration (Only in Italian).
Bocconi has established many partnerships for its Master of Science programs: the Master of Science in Finance was among the first six programs in the world to establish a partnership with the CFA institute and the first in continental Europe, while the Masters of Science in Management and International Management enable a select number of students to take part in the
CEMS Master of International Management, of which Bocconi is a founding member, along with
HEC,
ESADE
Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is an international private educational institution based in Barcelona, Spain. Esade runs two schools of the university, ESADE Business School, Esade Business School and ESADE Law Sch ...
and
University of Cologne
The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...
.
School of Law
Bocconi University School of Law was established in 2006, consolidating the tradition of legal studies at Bocconi under the aegis of the "A. Sraffa" Institute for Comparative Law. The School of Law currently offers a combined LL.B. and LL.M. in Law, runs the Specialization School for Legal professions in cooperation with the
University of Pavia
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, and hosts a Summer Academy in cooperation with the
University of Trento
The University of Trento (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Trento'') is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research, and international relations accord ...
, as well as with the
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies () is a special-statute, highly selective public research university located in Pisa, Italy. Together with the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, it is part of the Pisa University ...
.
PhD School
The Bocconi PhD School offers the following 4-year
PhD
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programs:
*PhD in Economics and Finance;
*PhD in Business Administration and Management;
*PhD in Statistics and Computer Science;
*PhD in Public Policy and Administration;
*PhD in Legal Studies (3-year program);
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi () is the
graduate business school
A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, s ...
of the university. The business school offers
MBA
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programs, executive education,
professional certification
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s, and a Doctor of Business Administration (
DBA). Founded in 1971, SDA Bocconi is fully accredited by the AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA. The school is also the publisher of ''E&M'' (Economia & Management), an Italian business and management review. The SDA also offers further
Master of Science
A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medici ...
programs in
Corporate Finance
Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...
and Banking, Real Estate Management, Fine Food and Beverage management, Fashion Management, Design Management, Sports Law and Sport Management, and a Master in Stage and Show Management.
Research and endowment
In 2006, research was mainly funded by Bocconi itself (around €1.5 million), the
European Union
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(around €1.4 million) and the
Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (around €300 thousand), in addition to other external sources (around €11 million). In 2011, the
European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...
(ERC) assigned around €5 million to five projects in the area "social science and humanities" led by five Bocconi professors.
Bocconi is a member of the
Offshoring Research Network
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, an international network researching the offshoring of business processes and services.
Departments
*Accounting
*Economics
*Finance
*Management and Technology
*Marketing
*Decision Sciences
*Legal Studies
*Policy Analysis and Public Management
*Computing sciences
Permanent Research Centers
*''ASK'' – Centre for Research on Management and Economics of Arts and Culture Institutions (Study centre on the economics and management of the arts and culture)
*''PAOLO BAFFI CENTRE'' – Paolo Baffi Centre on International Markets, Money and Regulation
*''CAREFIN'' – Centre for Applied Research in Finance
*''CERGAS'' – Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (Institutional structures; management of public and private companies providing healthcare and social services)
*''CERMES'' – Centre for Research on Marketing & Services (Marketing and competitive analysis; commercial consumption and distribution; trade fairs)
*''CERTeT'' – Center for Research on Regional Economics, Transport and Tourism (Urban, regional and transport structures of territorial economics; evaluation of EU policies on territorial development)
*''CREDI'' – "Ariberto Mignoli" Centre for European Research on
Business Law
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and History
*''CReSV'' – Center for Research on Sustainability and Value
*''CRIOS'' – Center for Research on Innovation, Organization and Strategy
*''
DONDENA CENTRE'' – Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Interdisciplinary research on social cohesion, demography, life course dynamics and public policy)
*''IEFE'' – Centre for Research on Energy and
Environmental Economics
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and Policy (Energy economics and policies; environmental policies and management; economics and management of public utility companies – energy and environmental)
*''IGIER'' –
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research The Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) is an economic research center of Bocconi University. It was launched in 1990 by Francesco Giavazzi, Mario Monti, and Richard Portes as a joint project of Bocconi University
Bocco ...
. Part of the Institute of Economics, it operates jointly with two international bodies, the US-based
NBER, National Bureau of Economic Research, and the UK-based
CEPR, Centre for Economic Policy Research (Economics and economic policy)
*''ECONPUBBLICA'' – Centre for Research on the Public Sector (Taxation system; organisation of the social state; privatisation; income distribution; fiscal federalism)
International rankings
Student life
Student publications
The university hosts student-run publications:
*Tra i Leoni: a campus magazine run by the eponymous society.
*Bocconi School of Law Student-Edited Papers: the Law School's official student publication. The journal's editorial board are selected by way of an annual write-on competition, and go on to select and provide feedback on submitted papers, as well as organizing the annual call for papers.
*IS@B News: a campus magazine run by the International Student Association (IS@B).
*Be OBjective Magazine: a bimonthly pdf magazine founded by students from the ACME course. The magazine focuses on art, culture, media and entertainment.
Superstitions
In the atrium of the oldest building of the university, there are three sets of doors. The central doors, which are larger than the others, have two lions on either side of them. There is a superstition within the university that students who pass in between the two lions via the central doors risk not being able to graduate. This derives from the adage "Chi passa tra i Leoni non si laurea alla Bocconi."
If seen from the top, the three main buildings of Bocconi seem to spell "30L" (30 ''cum laude''), the maximum achievable grade in any exam. The building in Via Roentgen is the "3", the velodrome is the "0" and the main building is a cross of two "L"s.
Notable people
Alumni
*
Alberto Alemanno, professor of law at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
(NYU)
*
Alberto Alesina
Alberto Francesco Alesina (29 April 1957 – 23 May 2020) was an Italian economist who was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 2003 until his death in 2020. He was known principally as an economist of po ...
,
Harvard University
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professor
*
Franco Amatori
Franco Amatori is professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
With a scholarship of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, Amatori spent three semesters in the individual studies program of Harvard Business School
Harvar ...
, Bocconi University professor of Economics History, past president of the
European Business History Association
*
Jörg Asmussen, member of the executive board of the
European Central Bank
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*
Oriana Bandiera
Oriana Bandiera, FBA (born 26 August 1971) is an Italian development economist and academic, who is currently the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on development, labour, and ...
, professor of economics at the
London School of Economics
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*
Tito Boeri
Tito Michele Boeri (born 3 August 1958) is an Italian economist, currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan and acts as Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. , professor of
Labour economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the Market (economics), markets for wage labour. Labour (human activity), Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding ...
at Bocconi University, columnist for ''
La Repubblica
(; English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and l ...
'' and former president of
INPS (National Institute for Social Security in Italy)
*
Luigi Corradi, engineer and CEO of
Trenitalia
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*
Francesca Cornelli
Francesca Cornelli (born September 19, 1962) is an economist who is Dean for Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
She is known for her research in corporate governance, private equity, privatization, bankruptcy, initial publi ...
, Dean of
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
's
Kellogg School of Management
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History
Early ...
, previously professor of finance and deputy dean at
London Business School
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*Jelena Djokovic, tennis player and
Novak Djokovic
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's wife
*
Luigi Einaudi
Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the 1946 Italian institutional ...
,
President of the Italian Republic
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(1948–1955) and governor of
Bank of Italy
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*
Francesco Giavazzi
Francesco Giavazzi (born 11 August 1949 in Bergamo) is an Italian economist. He is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and a regular visiting professor at MIT.
Biography
Giavazzi graduated in electrical engineering from the Politecnico d ...
, economist and Bocconi University professor
*
Vittorio Grilli,
Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
(2012–13) and previously a professor at
Yale University
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*
Fiorella Kostoris, professor of economics at the
Sapienza University of Rome
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*
Luca de Meo
Luca de Meo (born 13 June 1967) is an Italian automotive executive who is the former CEO of Renault Group. On June 15, 2025, it was announced that he will leave Renault to take over the leadership of the Kering group.
Early life and education
B ...
, CEO of
Renault
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; former president of
SEAT
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The ...
*
Antonio Merlo,
Rice University
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Rice University comp ...
professor and dean
*
Mario Monti
Mario Monti (; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a Technocratic government (Italy), technocratic government in the wake of the European sov ...
, former
Italian Prime Minister (2011–13)
*
Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948) is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the Eu ...
, former
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
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(2013–14)
*
Vittorio Colao, CEO of
Vodafone Group
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,
Italian Minister for Technological Innovation in the
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
of
Prime Minister
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Mario Draghi
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*
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, OMRI (; 23 July 1940 – 18 December 2010) was an Italian banker and economist who served as Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008. He previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the Euro ...
, economist and former
Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
(2006–08)
*
Corrado Passera
Corrado Passera (born on 30 December 1954 in Como, Italy) is an Italian manager and banker, who has served as Minister of Economic Development and Infrastructure and Transport in the Mario Monti Cabinet.
Biography
Corrado Passera was born i ...
, former
Italian Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Infrastructure and Transport (2011–13)
*
Barbara Pollastrini, former
Italian Minister for Equal Opportunities in the
Prodi II Cabinet
The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008, a total of 722 days, or 1 year, 11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic, it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislatur ...
(2006)
*
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini (; born March 29, 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economic consultant, economist, speaker and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University.
Roubini earned a BA in p ...
, NYU
Stern School of Business
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professor
*
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Fabrizio Saccomanni (22 November 1942 – 8 August 2019) was an Italian economist, civil servant and the director general of the Bank of Italy. He served as minister of economy and finance between April 2013 and February 2014. From 13 April 2018 ...
,
Minister of Economy and Finance of the Italian government and former General Manager of the
Bank of Italy
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*
Paolo Scaroni
Paolo Scaroni (born 28 November 1946) is an Italian businessman and banker, currently the chairman of Enel and A.C. Milan. Between 2002 and 2014 he has been chief executive officer of Italian energy companies Enel and Eni.
Education
In 1969, S ...
, CEO of
Eni
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Eni or ENI may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
* Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia, the Argentine intelligence academy
* Groupe des écoles nationales d’ingénieurs (Groupe ENI), a French engi ...
; chair of
AC Milan
(), commonly referred to as Milan or AC Milan () mainly outside of Italy, is an Italian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tie ...
*
Renato Soru
Renato Soru (born 6 August 1957) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. ''Forbes'' listed Soru as one of the world's richest people, with a net worth of over $4 bi ...
, billionaire entrepreneur and manager, founder of the internet service company
Tiscali
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*
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales (; born 8 February 1963) is an Italian academic who is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His book '' Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists'' (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism" ...
,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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professor
*
Patrizia Toia, Italian politician and member of the
European Parliament
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*
Marco Patuano
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Education
Patuano studied Corporate Finance and graduated from Bocconi University, in Milan, Italy, in 1990. He then proceeded his studies with numerous p ...
, CEO of
TIM Group
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It is ...
*
Federico Marchetti
Federico Marchetti (; born 7 February 1983) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Maltese Premier League club Marsaxlokk.
Marchetti began his professional club career with Torino in 2002, and was subsequently loane ...
, CEO and founder of
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group
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Yoox was originally founded by Federico Marchetti in Milan in 2000, and Net-a-Porte ...
*
Marco Cappato
Marco Cappato (; born 25 May 1971) is an Italian activist and politician. Cappato was an Italian Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009. He represented the Bonino List within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parlia ...
, Italian politician and member of the European Parliament
*
Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi, economist
*
Alessandro Pansa, former CEO of
Leonardo
*
Claudio Costamagna, chairman of
Advanced Accelerator Applications
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The group operates in all three segments of nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT and therapy) to diagnose and treat ser ...
*
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages.
Biograph ...
, professor of sociology at
Johns Hopkins University
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*
Domenico Lombardi, president of The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, and a Senior Fellow at the
Brookings Institution
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*
Eduardo Missoni, secretary general of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement
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*
Andrea Enria
Andrea Enria (born 3 July 1961) an Italian economist who served as Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as the chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) between 2011 and 2019.
Early life and educ ...
, chair of the
ECB Supervisory Board
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(2019–present), and previously chair of the
European Banking Authority
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(2011–19)
*
Mario Biondi
Mario Biondi (born Mario Ranno, 28 January 1971) is an Italian singer.
Early life
Mario Biondi was born in Catania, Italy, to local Sicilian parents. He is the son of popular song singer Giuseppe Ranno, known by the pseudonym Stefano Biondi ...
, novelist, travel writer, poet
*
Paolo Brera
Paolo Alberto Brera (16 September 1949 – 21 February 2019) was an Italian economist, academic, journalist, multilingual translator and novelist.
Biography
Brera was born in Milan, the third son of journalist and writer Gianni Brera and teache ...
, journalist, author, and former assistant professor of political economy at Bocconi University
*
Teresa de Lauretis
Teresa de Lauretis (; born 1938, Bologna) is an Italian author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, ...
, writer and professor at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
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*
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 8 March 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
Biography
He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia province of Modena and, after getting a degree in Classical Arts at ...
, journalist, television host, historical novelist
*
Mario Arcelli, economist, Minister for the Budget in the Italian government
*
Fabio De'Longhi
Fabio De'Longhi (born 1967) is an Italian businessman and former CEO and general manager of De'Longhi.
Early life
He was born in 1967, and is the son of Giuseppe De'Longhi. He studied economics at Bocconi University.
Career
He became CEO of D ...
, CEO of
De'Longhi
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History and trading
The company was founded by the De'Longhi family in 1902 as a small industrial parts manufacturing workshop. The ...
*
Francesco Milleri
Francesco Milleri (born in 1959) is an Italian businessman who has been the CEO of EssilorLuxottica since June 2022. He is also the father of Italian-American DJ and record producer Matteo Milleri.
Early life
Francesco Milleri was born in 1959. ...
, CEO of
Luxottica
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*
Salvatore Aranzulla, blogger and entrepreneur
*
Dubravka Negre,
Minister of Mining and Energy of Serbia since 2022
*
Sergio Noja Noseda
Sergio Noja Noseda (7 July 193131 January 2008) was an Italian professor of Arabic language and literature and Sharia.
Life
Noja Noseda was born in Pola, the son of Ugo Noja and Rina Noja Amati (also known as Amabile), descending from an anc ...
, professor of Islamic law, Arabic Language and Literature. Author of multiple books on Islamic culture
*
Alessandro Profumo, banker
*
Marco Tronchetti Provera
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...
, manager
*
Massimo Renon
Massimo Renon (born July 6, 1970) is an Italian businessman. He has been the CEO of the Benetton Group since April 2020.
Biography
Renon studied at the Bologna University where he graduated in political science and business management.
Renon s ...
, CEO of the
Benetton Group
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since 2020
*
Luigi Roth, CEO of Breda Railway Construction (1993–2001)
*
Leopoldo Sabbatini, first dean of Bocconi University, vice president of the Milan Chamber of Commerce
*
Nina Senicar, Serbian model
*
Guido Tabellini
Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist, rector of Bocconi University from November 2008 until July 2012.
Tabellini received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He firs ...
, former rector of Bocconi University (2008–12) and columnist for ''
Il Sole 24 Ore
(; English: "The Sun 24 Hours") is the Italian financial newspaper of record, owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation. is the leading financial daily in Italy.
History and profile
was first published on 9 November 1965 as ...
''
*
Sara Tommasi, pornographic actress
*
Benedetto Della Vedova, politician
*
Roberto Vedovotto, CEO of
Kering
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The timber-tradin ...
Eyewear since 2014
Other
*
Andrea Agnelli
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, businessman and chairman of
Juventus FC
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*
Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of
Apulia
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*
Pierre Casiraghi
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, seventh in line to the throne of Monaco, son of
Caroline, Princess of Hanover
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, and nephew of
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
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Born at the Prince's Palace of Monaco, Albert is the second child and only son of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. He attend ...
*
Giovanni Cobolli Gigli, former chairman of Juventus F.C.
*
Chiara Ferragni
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Since 2021, Ferragni has been engulfed in controversy as the protagonist of the Pandorogate, Pandorogate fraud scandal in which she is alleged to hav ...
, fashion blogger, has not obtained degree
*
Steven Goldstein, race car driver
*
Beatrice Borromeo
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, noblewoman of the House of Borromeo, journalist and ex-model
*Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
*
Vittorio Gallinari
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He was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano. During his pl ...
, basketball player
*
Clarence Seedorf
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, Dutch football player
*
Carla Sozzani, gallerist known for creating the 10 Corso Como complex
Alumnus of the Year
The award for ''Alumnus of the Year'' was given for the first time in 2011 to
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Fabrizio Saccomanni (22 November 1942 – 8 August 2019) was an Italian economist, civil servant and the director general of the Bank of Italy. He served as minister of economy and finance between April 2013 and February 2014. From 13 April 2018 ...
, former general director of
Bank of Italy
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, replacing the awards for ''Bocconian of the Year'' (given since 1988) and ''Master of Masters'' (given since 2007). The award is given to a Bocconi alumnus from any of the five schools (Undergraduate School, School of Law, Graduate School, PhD School and SDA Bocconi School of Management) who has distinguished himself following the Bocconian values of professionality, entrepreneurship, integrity, responsibility and openness.
The award is given by the Bocconi Alumni Association (BAA) and recipients have included:
Jörg Asmussen,
Emma Bonino
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,
Urbano Cairo
Urbano Cairo (born 21 May 1957) is an Italian businessman and media proprietor.
Biography
Cairo was born in Milan. His parents were originally from Masio, within the province of Alessandria. He is the first of four children born from the union ...
,
Giovanni Castellucci,
Vittorio Colao,
Claudio Costamagna,
Andrea Enria
Andrea Enria (born 3 July 1961) an Italian economist who served as Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as the chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) between 2011 and 2019.
Early life and educ ...
,
Corrado Passera
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Biography
Corrado Passera was born i ...
,
Alessandro Profumo,
Nouriel Roubini
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Roubini earned a BA in p ...
,
Paolo Scaroni
Paolo Scaroni (born 28 November 1946) is an Italian businessman and banker, currently the chairman of Enel and A.C. Milan. Between 2002 and 2014 he has been chief executive officer of Italian energy companies Enel and Eni.
Education
In 1969, S ...
,
Carlo Scognamiglio
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,
Renato Soru
Renato Soru (born 6 August 1957) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. ''Forbes'' listed Soru as one of the world's richest people, with a net worth of over $4 bi ...
,
Lucio Stanca,
Luca de Meo
Luca de Meo (born 13 June 1967) is an Italian automotive executive who is the former CEO of Renault Group. On June 15, 2025, it was announced that he will leave Renault to take over the leadership of the Kering group.
Early life and education
B ...
, Francesca Bellettini, Roberto Mazzotta, Stefano Sassi,
Giuseppe Sala Giuseppe Sala may refer to:
* Giuseppe Sala (music publisher) (c.1643-1727), Italian music publisher
* Giuseppe Sala (politician) (born 1958), Italian politician
* Giuseppe Antonio Sala (1762–1839), Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic chur ...
,
Federico Marchetti
Federico Marchetti (; born 7 February 1983) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Maltese Premier League club Marsaxlokk.
Marchetti began his professional club career with Torino in 2002, and was subsequently loane ...
, Giovanni Ciserani, Diego Piacentini, Laura Cioli, Alberto Cribiore, Gaetano Micciché,
Paolo Cuccia
Paolo Cuccia is an Italian businessman.
Cuccia served as president of Gambero Rosso, president of Artribune S.r.l., member of the board of Astaldi and member of the board of Techedge.
Education
* Liceo Classico Massimo Padri Gesuiti in Rome ...
, Enrico Cucchiani,
Vittorio Grilli, Marco Drago, Emma Marcegaglia, Isabella Ventura,
Marco Tronchetti Provera
Marco Tronchetti Provera (; born 1948) is an Italian businessman. He formerly served as chief executive officer of the Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli & Co. S.p.A. from 1992 to 2022, where he continues to serve as executive vice chairman.
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, Giovanni Giudici, Jody Vender,
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, OMRI (; 23 July 1940 – 18 December 2010) was an Italian banker and economist who served as Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008. He previously served as a member of the Executive Board of the Euro ...
, Giordano Zucchi.
See also
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University of Milan
The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State niversity), is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Eu ...
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Polytechnic University of Milan
The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...
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Business schools in Italy
Universities and colleges established in 1902
Economics schools
1902 establishments in Italy