More than others, the hospitality sector has suffered the most immediate repercussions of the pandemic. The measures for transmission containment that were prompted by the government and the fear of travelling that has spread internationally have stopped any event, conference, convention, sports league, and have drastically driving down tourism for both business and leisure. How do hospitality leaders improvise resilience in practice while facing the shock caused by Covid-19?
Maria Savona explains her paper on how different models assessing climate change integrate aspects of structural change that are crucial to understand the complexity of how the economy affects the environment.
Over the last five years, the increase in usability and popularity of text and image analytics (aka, text and image mining) methods has grown exponentially. In fact, recent business literature has dedicated several step-by-step guides in marketing, management, retailing and business in general, that should help researchers to use unstructured data for business insight. Francisco Villarroel Ordenes explain why it is important understanding the key objectives and methods to implement text and image mining.
“Structured management practices include for example, quality checks and reducing defect rates, hiring and firing based on performance, and tracking and achieving targets of production. Firms who follow these practices have higher profitability, higher innovation rates and lower rates of exit”. An interview with Megha Patnaik
An interview with Pierluigi Murro about the role of credit relationships in the great trade collapse
Sara Biagini’s project to solve the optimal portfolio choice problem of an investor
“The last two decades have witnessed substantial progress in the measurement of productivity. However, our understanding of the deep determinants of productivity growth is still limited”. Fabiano Schivardi’s research about the european productivity growth divergence
“The essence of leadership: personally assuming the moral duty to do something, to act, to take part in the process of building the future. Acknowledging one’s own responsibility to give future generations hope for something better.” The message that Sergio Marchionne has left to the LUISS community
In his latest editorial for LUISS Open’s “A view from Brussels”, Daniel Gros analyses the effects of non-performing loans on the broader Italian credit and banking sector, with a specific reference to France and Germany, arguing that NPLs do not hamper the possibilities of economic growth
Access to funding means greater success opportunities for startups. The “crowd” can be generous, as well as helpful in promoting new ideas on marketing and product development, according to a study on 60 European startups by professors Di Pietro (LUISS), Prencipe (LUISS) and Majchrzak (University of Southern California)
UK, and in particular London, is seen as an exemplar of best practice when it comes to managing major projects. Professor Andrew Davies shows us how megaprojects (project costing more than US$1bn) such as the London 2012 Olympics and Crossrail were successfully delivered.
According to a widespread belief, banks buying bonds of their own government can have a positive impact on the market, especially in order to stabilize a crisis. Daniel Gros argues, on the contrary, that this is not the case
LUISS University will be holding a workshop on sustainable development goals and integrated thinking with several national and foreign partners at Columbia University in New York. An event that will be addressing an issue of great global significance, with a focus on the business world
The authors of the book “Sustainable Luxury Brands” explain why luxury is not incompatible, as too often believed, with sustainability
A research by LUISS Business School reveals what young people are looking for in their employers: values, performance and growth
Ancarani, Buonuomo and Costabile identify the so-called “Italian marketing management”: its features are at the same time exceptional strengths
Ancarani, Buonuomo and Costabile identify the so-called “Italian marketing management”: its features are at the same time exceptional strengths
Voglia di cambiamento e innovazione organizzativa e tecnologica. La storia di un’azienda che con coraggio ha accettato la sfida della digitalizzazione raccontata da Andrea Prencipe e Luca Giustiniano
When the most important Italian tennis event comes on, spotlights will turn on again at the Foro Italico of Rome. The X.ite Research Center at LUISS has measured the scope of the IBIs “reputational” and economic effects.
Simona Romani, Silvia Grappi and Richard Bagozzi study how being the object of envy can structure consumer satisfaction
An international team of researchers analyzes the opinions of a sampling of 816 Italian consumers regarding large scandals in the food market. Psychological mechanisms that place blame on the brand and related stereotypes are surprising
An extract from Paolo Peverini’s book “Social Guerriglia. Semiotica della comunicazione non convenzionale” (“Social Guerrilla. Semiotics of Unconventional Communication”, coming out in a new March 2017 edition for LUISS University Press
In this article, Michele Costabile outlines a number of trends in academic research and charts future prospects for development regarding the “third mission” of Universities
What are the causes of brand hate? What are consumers willing to do to show this “feeling”? This paper identifies the negative emotions associated with brand hate and a number of preventive actions to avoid it
Luca Giustiniano’s contribution to the book “Gestione delle Imprese Internazionali” analyses the great potential of human capital from the standpoint of business management. A key resource in an increasingly international, competitive market
International employee mobility management has become a key element in the global marketplace. Mirella Pellegrini, Nunzio Casalino and Vanessa Krause propose a series of strategies for organizing the reintegration within the company
In a study conducted with an international research team, Luca Giustiniano shows how improvisation works as a productive element in a controlled work environment like an emergency room