Are you interested in how market frictions can affect firm scope choices? Here's forthcoming management science paper I have with Niloofar Abolfathi & Simone Santamaria on how this played out with mobile number portability in mobile telephone markets: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128…

What if government officials, like start-up entrepreneurs, started behaving like scientists? In this blog post, I share how @SaudiCustoms uses a scientific approach to improve its customer experience in a more structured and disciplined way: knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-bl… via INSEAD

New CEPR Paper DP15972 A Scientific Approach to Innovation Management: Evidence from Four Field Experiments Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Danilo Messinese Università Bocconi, Elena Novelli @cassbusiness, Emilio Paolucci Politecnico di Torino, CSpina INSEAD ow.ly/aljO50EbXPb

One of the things that has really fascinated humankind is the ability to predict the #future. But how can we do so? By applying the scientific approach. Alfonso Gambardella explains why entrepreneurs should act like scientists. #bocconipodcast unibocconi.eu/podcast/?utm_s…

Here's an interesting perspective for the Lean community to consider. Maybe A3, PDCA, etc. are not problem solving methods, but practice methods for mindset and skill development. The point is not the methods, but the scientific response habits that practicing them develops.

#FrancescoGiavazzi: friend since their PhD years together at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both students of #Nobel Franco Modigliani, he becomes Economic Adviser to Mario Draghi's government #NextGenerationEU #RecoveryPlan viasarfatti25.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?id…

Congrats Elena Novelli & CSpina for winning the Strategic Management Society Annual Best Conference Paper Award 2021 for a UK field experiment showing that SME that make decisions like scientists perform better and raise employment smsvirtualtoronto2021.us2.pathable.com/organizations/…

Pleased to see this paper forthcoming at Academy of Management Review with Thomas Zellweger: lnkd.in/gRcM-zwZ lnkd.in/g2d_QXQh

Mon Nov 8 1200PM EST/5PM CET, strategicmanagement.net/home/engagemen… on FRAMING STRATEGIC DECISIONS IN THE "ALGO" WORLD w/ Andrea Pignataro of iongroup.com. Andrea is an amazing business leader w/ strong academic taste. Really worth hearing, register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17392 Microfoundations of Low-Frequency High-Impact Decisions Arnaldo Camuffo Università Bocconi, Alfonso Gambardella Università Bocconi, Fabio Maccheroni Università Bocconi, Massimo Marinacci Università Bocconi, Andrea Pignataro Università Bocconi ow.ly/xaWu50JB4i0 #CEPR_OE

Thanks Strategic Management Society! Goal is also to show how a theory-based view can be used in practice and teaching -- thanks to my coauthors Arnaldo Camuffo, fabio maccheroni, massimo marinacci, andrea pignataro

Digitalization changes the nature of firms, radically transforming strategic decision-making and strategic management, Arnaldo Camuffo and Alfonso Gambardella explain here viasarfatti25.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?id…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17664 Using Theories to Make Strategic Decisions Arnaldo Camuffo Università Bocconi, Alfonso Gambardella Università Bocconi, Andrea Pignataro ION ow.ly/Ihje50LIjuH #CEPR_OE

New paper in JOM by steve blank and Jonathan Eckhardt nicely reviewing The Lean Startup. Highlights theory preceding experimentation as critical but also as current area of weakness. See theory-based view. Teppo Felin Alfonso Gambardella journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Yes! What is the value of developing a theory to guide experimentation? With Rajshree Agarwal, FrancescaBacco, @AndreaCoali, Alfonso Gambardella, Haji msangi, Steven Sonka, Anna Temu, Betty Waized and Audra Wormald we explore this with an RCT in Tanzania papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Arnaldo Camuffo Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella Alfonso Gambardella & Andrea Pignataro Università Bocconi "Theory Driven Strategic Management Decisions" CEPR WP repec.cepr.org/repec/cpr/cepr… #VeniceSummerInstitute2023 #BigData #ManagementPractices workshop CESifo Predictive People Analytics

Register for ourPDW on 5Aug, 1pm STR - Strategic Management Division to discuss about #decisionmaking and new #games to use in your teaching and research. With Rajshree Agarwal Dan Levinthal Ramana Nanda Violina Rindova Erin Scott Scott Stern Todd Zenger Arnaldo Camuffo Alfonso Gambardella @andreacoali

Save the date for this year’s AOM TIM Division Distinguished Scholar’s Luncheon on Sun Aug 6 at 12pm. The TIM Distinguished Scholar Award honours a career of scholarly achievements. Congratulations Alfonso Gambardella !

Congrats to Francesca Bacco from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief), Andrea Coali @andreacoali from Università Bocconi, and Audra Wormald Audra Wormald from UNC-Chapel Hill UNC Kenan-Flagler for winning the #AOM2023 #STR Glueck Best Paper Award!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Knowledge Bocconi - Lean Management Pays Off, But You Have to Wait - Management knowledge.unibocconi.eu/notizia.php?id…