The final paper /thesis is the concluding step in your experience in the Bachelor/ Master of Science Program. You are expected to demonstrate your intellectual and personal maturity and your ability to apply the concepts that you have studied during your years at Bocconi. The final paper and in particular the thesis require effort and commitment. Adequate time and serious planning must be dedicated to it. Any final paper* /thesis should start with a preliminary investigation of the possible research topic. This topic should be novel, interesting, and feasible.
* The interactive Guide for Producing the Final Paper is the starting point for BSc students who want to start thinking about how to structure their paper or who are getting ready to write it. Designed as a module-based course that covers the fundamental stages for 'building' a final paper, the interactive Guide is available starting from the second year of the program, in the yoU@B Student Diary in Graduation> How To: Useful Info for Graduation. For correct bibliographic citation in the paper, the The Guide for producing the Final Paper should be accompanied by the Guide for Bibliographic Citation and Writing the Bibliography.
This page is the starting point for identifying the research topic. You will find a complete list of the research areas that are covered by the instructors of this Department, who are the possible supervisors that you should contact in order to develop your project.
- Identify your research topic
- Choose your supervisor/advisor Professor
Detailed information regarding the administrative procedure is available on the Guide to the University:
To draft a project to submit to possibile supervisors in the Department for a MSc. thesis:
- Guidelines for a MSc. thesis in the MNT Department
- Template for a MSc. thesis project in the MNT Department
For further support you can contact - during their office hours:
- Thesis in Organization: Prof. Paola Bielli (paola.bielli@unibocconi.it) - Prof. Marina Puricelli (marina.puricelli@unibocconi.it)
- Thesis in Strategy : Prof. Irene Dagnino (irene.dagnino@unibocconi.it) for final papers - prof. Fabio Quarato for MSc. theses (fabio.quarato@unibocconi.it)
- Thesis in Innovation and Technology : Prof. Silvia Zamboni (silvia.zamboni@sdabocconi.it)
You can check the following guides designed by the Library to create your research strategy and find relevant resources and tools: Management and Technology, Bibliographic Research Skills, Writing your dissertation
A
Topics: Decision Making Processes, ICT for Collaboration and Learning, Organizational Behavior and ICT, Organizational Decision Making
Topics: Automotive Services, Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, Corporate Governance, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Economic Analysis for Decisions, Energy and Materials, Family Business, Manufacturing, Ownership Structure, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Strategic Finance
Topics: Careers, Collaborative working, Employee networks & social capital, Employment arrangements, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Human Resources Management
Topics: Automotive Services, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Energy and Materials, Food and Beverage, International Business Strategy, Internet and Digital Services, Scenario Analysis, SMEs & Districts, Telecommunications
Topics: Art and Culture, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Internet and Digital Services, Media and Communications, Platform Ecosystems, Strategic Management of Technology, TV & Movies, Videogames
B
Topics: Careers, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Human Resources Management, Organizational Systems
Topics: Automotive Services, Internet and Digital Services, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies
Topics: Careers, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Managerial Education and Training, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Change
Topics: Careers, Employee networks & social capital, Employment arrangements, Gender Gap in Organizations, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Negotiation, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and ICT
Topics: ICT, Media and Communications, Networks, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Telecommunications, TV & Movies
Topics: Automotive Services, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Product Development Strategies, Technologies for Production/Logistics Processes, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: Agriculture, ERP & Other Application Areas, ICT, ICT and Business Processes, ICT-Based Innovation, ICT Diffusion & Implementation, ICT Financial Management, ICT for Internationalization Processes, ICT, SMEs & Business Networks, IS Outsourcing and Offshoring, Manufacturing, Project Management in IS, Telecommunications
Topics: Employee networks & social capital, Geography of production and labor, Human Capital, Intellectual capital, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Networks, Social Network Analysis, Territorial Development Management (SMEs, Clusters, Networks, etc)
Topics: Careers, Collaborative working, Cultural and Institutional Analysis of Organizations, Employee networks & social capital, Entrepreneurial Organization, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Leadership, Managerial Education and Training, Networks, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Change, SMEs Organization, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Social Network Analysis
C
Topics: Automotive Services, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Organizational Systems, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Product Development Strategies, SMEs & Districts, System Dynamics, Union Relations and Work Organization
Topics: Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Managerial Education and Training
Topics: Art and Culture, Automotive Services, Cultural and Institutional Analysis of Organizations, Food and Beverage, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Leadership, Networks, Organizational Change, Sports, Videogames
Topics: Business Strategy, Design, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Product Development Strategies
Topics: Entrepreneurial Organization, Entrepreneurship, Fashion and Luxury, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
Topics: eBusiness and eCommerce, Economics and Management of Innovation, Fashion and Luxury, Internet and Digital Services, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies
Topics: Business Plan, Corporate Governance, Family Business, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Strategic Finance
Topics: Business Strategy, eBusiness and eCommerce, Fashion and Luxury
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Design, Entrepreneurship, Family Business, Fashion and Luxury, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Ownership Structure, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Strategic Alliances, Tourism
Topics: CSR & Sustainability, Economics and Management of Innovation, Energy and Materials, Energy Management and Policies, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Management & Climate Change, ICT, ICT-Based Innovation, ICT Diffusion & Implementation, Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, Internet and Digital Services, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Technology Management, Telecommunications, Territorial Development Management (SMEs, Clusters, Networks, etc)
D
Topics: Business Plan, Business Strategy, Consumer Goods, Fashion and Luxury
Topics: Design, eBusiness and eCommerce, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Technological Forecasting and Policies, Technologies for Production/Logistics Processes, Telecommunications, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: Corporate turnaround, Credit risk management, Early warning procedures, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, Insolvency management and prediction, Workouts
Topics: Automotive Services, Entrepreneurship, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Ownership Structure, Private Equity and Venture Capital, SMEs & Districts, Strategic Finance
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation strategy, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, SMEs & Districts, Technological change, Technology Management, Territorial Development Management (SMEs, Clusters, Networks, etc)
Topics: Art and Culture, Business Plan, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, CSR & Sustainability, Design, eBusiness and eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, Internet and Digital Services, Media and Communications, Non-profit, Sharing Economy, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management, Strategic Management of Technology, Telecommunications, Tourism, TV & Movies, Videogames
Topics: Business Strategy, Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, eBusiness and eCommerce, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Food and Beverage, ICT, ICT-Based Innovation, Intellectual capital, Internet and Digital Services, Media and Communications, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management, Telecommunications, TV & Movies, Videogames
Topics: Energy and Materials, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Utilities
F
Topics: Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Manufacturing, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Telecommunications
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Intellectual capital, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management, Telecommunications
G
Topics: Geography of production and labor, Innovation strategy, Multinational Enterprises: Location choices and Innovation strategies, Technological change
Topics: Art and Culture, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, Energy and Materials, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, Strategic Finance
Topics: Automotive Services, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
Topics: Business Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual capital, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Strategic Management of Technology, Telecommunications, Theory of the Firm
Topics: Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, SMEs & Districts
Topics: Agriculture, Automotive Services, Family Business, Manufacturing, Technologies for Production/Logistics Processes, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: CSR & Sustainability, Industry 4.0, Lean management, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Offshoring/reshoring, Operations management, Performance measurement and benchmarking of the Production/Logistics Systems, Production and inventory planning and control, SMEs & Districts, Supply Chain management, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: Agriculture, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Decision Making Processes, Design, Economics of Organization, Entrepreneurial Organization, Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Negotiation, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Decision Making, Organizational Design, Theory of the Firm
Topics: Careers, Decision Making Processes, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Decision Making
Topics: Business Plan, Business Strategy, Consulting Industries, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Energy and Materials, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, Intellectual capital, International Business Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Strategic Finance, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management
Topics: Decision Making Processes, Economic Analysis for Decisions, Economics of Organization, Entrepreneurial Organization, Entrepreneurship, Internet and Digital Services, Organizational Decision Making, Telecommunications, Videogames
I
Topics: Automotive Services, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Food and Beverage
Topics: Employee networks & social capital, Human Resources Management, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Networks, Organizational Behavior, Social Network Analysis
K
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Economics and Management of Innovation, Energy and Materials, Information Technology Applications, Intellectual capital, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Resources and Capabilities, Technological change, Technology Management, Utilities
Topics: Collaborative working, Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurial Organization, Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, Innovation strategy, Organizational Design, Technology Management, Theory of the Firm
L
Topics: Cooperative Economy, CSR & Sustainability, eBusiness and eCommerce, Internet and Digital Services, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Platform Ecosystems, Prosocial Behavior, Sharing Economy, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management, Strategic Alliances
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Design, Fashion and Luxury, International Business Strategy
M
Topics: ICT, Leadership, Manufacturing, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and ICT, Telecommunications
Topics: Economics and Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Telecommunications
Topics: Automotive Services, Business Ethics, Business Strategy, Consumer Goods, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, CSR & Sustainability, Decision Making Processes, eBusiness and eCommerce, Economics and Management of Innovation, Energy and Materials, Entrepreneurship, Family Business, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, International Business Strategy, Internet and Digital Services, Leadership, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Negotiation, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Ownership Structure, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, SMEs Organization, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management, Sports, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Finance, Tourism
Topics: Art and Culture, Creative Industries, Creativity, Idea Management, Networks, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, TV & Movies
Topics: Art and Culture, Design, Fashion and Luxury, Managerial Education and Training, Organizational Systems
Topics: CSR & Sustainability, Fashion and Luxury, International Business Strategy, Tourism
Topics: Competitiveness of countries, Organizational innovation, Research and innovation policy
Topics: Corporate Governance, Family Business, Manufacturing, Ownership Structure, Telecommunications, Theory of the Firm
Topics: Business Ethics, Consumer Durables, CSR & Sustainability, Manufacturing
Topics: Art and Culture, Automotive Services, Business Ethics, Decision Making Processes, Design, Entrepreneurship, Food and Beverage, Leadership, Manufacturing, Negotiation, Networks, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Decision Making, Social Network Analysis, Utilities
Topics: Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, IS Governance, Manufacturing, Organizational Design and ICT, Telecommunications
Topics: Business Strategy, Consumer Goods, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, Family Business, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Alliances
Topics: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Networks, SMEs & Districts
O
Topics: Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Cultural and Institutional Analysis of Organizations, Employee networks & social capital, Entrepreneurship, International Business Strategy, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Multinational Enterprises: Location choices and Innovation strategies, Organizational Change, Ownership Structure, Social Network Analysis, Strategic Alliances
P
Topics: Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Sports, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: Consumer Goods, Economics and Management of Innovation, Economics of Organization, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Theory of the Firm, Videogames
Topics: Business Plan, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, eBusiness and eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, International Business Strategy, Product Development Strategies
Topics: Automotive Services, Business Ethics, Consulting Industries, Consumer Durables, CRM and Data Analytics, CSR & Sustainability, Decision Making Processes, eBusiness and eCommerce, Energy and Materials, Executive and Organizational Consulting, Food and Beverage, ICT, ICT-Based Innovation, ICT Diffusion & Implementation, ICT for Collaboration and Learning, Information Security, Information Technology Applications, Internet and Digital Services, IS Governance, Leadership, Media and Communications, Organizational Behavior and ICT, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Organizational Design and ICT, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Planning and Implementing IT Systems, Telecommunications, Transportation & Logistics, TV & Movies, Utilities
Topics: Business Strategy, International Business Strategy, Media and Communications, TV & Movies
Topics: Business Ethics, Business Plan, Corporate Governance, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Corporate Strategy, CSR & Sustainability, Energy and Materials, Energy Management and Policies, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Management & Climate Change, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital, SMEs & Districts, SMEs Organization, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management, Strategic Finance, Theory of the Firm, Utilities
Topics: Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, Decision Making Processes, Economics of Organization, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, ICT, Internet and Digital Services, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Negotiation, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Change, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Finance, Theory of the Firm
Topics: Economics and Management of Innovation, Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, Information Technology, Intellectual capital, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Strategic Management of Technology, Technological change, Videogames
Topics: Agriculture, Automotive Services, Business Ethics, Business Strategy, Consumer Goods, Corporate Strategy, CSR & Sustainability, Energy and Materials, Energy Management and Policies, Food and Beverage, Organizational Change, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Utilities
Topics: eBusiness and eCommerce, Fashion and Luxury, Internet and Digital Services, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Product Development Strategies
Topics: Careers, Consumer Goods, Evaluation, Development and Mobility of Human Capital, Food and Beverage, Gender Gap in Organizations, Human Resources Management, Managerial Education and Training, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Systems
Topics: ICT for Collaboration and Learning, Internet and Digital Services, Organizational Behavior and ICT, Telecommunications
Topics: Agriculture, Entrepreneurial Organization, Family Business, Manufacturing
Q
Topics: Automotive Services, Corporate Governance, Family Business, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, International Business Strategy, Ownership Structure, SMEs & Districts
R
Topics: CSR & Sustainability, eBusiness and eCommerce, Economics and Management of Innovation, Family Business, Fashion and Luxury, Internet and Digital Services
Topics: Business Strategy, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management
Topics: Automotive Services, Business Ethics, CSR & Sustainability, Energy and Materials, Environmental Management & Climate Change, Food and Beverage, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Strategic Alliances
S
Topics: eBusiness and eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, ICT-Based Innovation, ICT Diffusion & Implementation, Information Technology, Information Technology Applications, Innovation strategy, Internet and Digital Services, Media and Communications, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Technological change
Topics: Family Business, SMEs Organization, Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Topics: Automotive Services, Managerial Education and Training, Organizational Behavior and ICT, Organizational Design, Organizational Design and ICT, Planning and Implementing IT Systems, Project Management in IS, Technical Project Management
Topics: Business Plan, Business Strategy, eBusiness and eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, ICT, ICT-Based Innovation, ICT for Collaboration and Learning, ICT for Internationalization Processes, ICT, SMEs & Business Networks, Internet and Digital Services, Media and Communications, Strategic Management of Technology, Telecommunications, TV & Movies, Videogames
Topics: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics
Topics: Business Ethics, CSR & Sustainability, Cultural and Institutional Analysis of Organizations, Energy and Materials, Environmental Management & Climate Change, International Business Strategy, Non-profit, Social Entrepreneurship & Philantropy Management, Utilities
Topics: Automotive Services, Food and Beverage, Internet and Digital Services, Inter-Organizatonal Relations, Alliances and Firm Networks Organization, Manufacturing, Networks, Organizational Design, Organizational Restructuring & Downsizing, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Social Network Analysis, Utilities
Topics: Automotive Services, Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, Design, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Sports
T
Topics: Corporate social responsibility, Online activism, Social movements
Topics: Agriculture, Business Ethics, Consumer Goods, Corporate Strategy, CSR & Sustainability, Energy and Materials, Environmental Management & Climate Change, Food and Beverage, ICT, Intellectual capital, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, SMEs & Districts, Theory of the Firm, TV & Movies, Utilities
Topics: Networks, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, TV & Movies
Topics: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Food and Beverage, SMEs & Districts, Territorial Development Management (SMEs, Clusters, Networks, etc), Tourism
V
Topics: Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Design, Fashion and Luxury
Topics: Corporate Strategy, Energy and Materials, Firm Crisis and Restructuring, International Business Strategy, Internet and Digital Services, Leadership, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecommunications, Utilities
Topics: Consumer Goods, Internet and Digital Services, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Product Development Strategies, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management
Topics: Agriculture, Consumer Goods, Design, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
Topics: Art and Culture, Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, Design, eBusiness and eCommerce, Economics and Management of Innovation, Fashion and Luxury, Food and Beverage, ICT, Internet and Digital Services, Manufacturing, Media and Communications, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Sports, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management, Theory of the Firm, Tourism, TV & Movies
W
Topics: Business Strategy, Corporate Governance and Organizational Structure, CSR & Sustainability, Economics and Management of Innovation, Economics of Organization, Entrepreneurial Organization, Entrepreneurship, ICT, Media and Communications, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Telecommunications, Theory of the Firm
Z
Topics: Automotive Services, Consumer Durables, Consumer Goods, Design, Food and Beverage, Impacts of New Technologies on Organizational Forms, Internet and Digital Services, Manufacturing, Media and Communications, Networks, Organization and Management of New Product and Service Development, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Product Development Strategies, Research, Development and Innovation Strategies, Scenario Analysis, SMEs & Districts, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Management of Technology, Technology Management, Tourism, Transportation & Logistics