Course 2019-2020 a.y.

Part 1 – The Essence of Entrepreneurship

• Capitalism and the Modern Enterprise.
• The Essence of Entrepreneurship.
• Entrepreneurs, Uncertainty and Risk.
• Creative Destroyers.
• Organization Builders.
• Constrained Entrepreneurship? The Context’s Burden.
• Managers as Entrepreneurs.
• Bureaucrats in Business.
• Archimedes in Business.
• The Systemic Effects of Entrepreneurship.

Part 2 – Entrepreneurship Around the World:

• The Japanese recipe.
• Capitalism Against Capitalism.
• The New Entrepreneurship.
• The Emerging Countries: Families, States and Groups.
• Entrepreneurship and Politics.

• Understand better the concept of entrepreneurship and its multi-faceted meanings.
• Understand the power of the context in shaping entrepreneurial and managerial decisions.
• Explain the micro-foundations of modern economic development.
• Discuss and understand the impact of technological change on the opportunities and challenges entrepreneurs and organizations face.

• Dissect the components of entrepreneurial decisions.
• Understand the context in which decisions are made, and the concept of bounded rationality.
• Compare different institutional, political, geographic contexts.
• Discuss the complex relationship between politics and business.
• Develop skills in academic writing.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
• Group assignments
• Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

The learning method in this course blends traditional frontal lectures with the vision of two movies, all connected to the concept of entrepreneurship. A group work of 800 words commenting each movie and putting it in relation with the themes developed in the course, will be required. In addition, students will be individually engaged in the discussion of cases and incidents – some of them interactive - which should be prepared in advance of each class. The teaching method is completed by in class pop-up questions, some role-playing and the use of Instagram (experimental) as a teaching tool.

The assessment of the attending students’ preparation are composed by three items:

1. A final written exam based on a section of true/false with motivation questions, a section of multiple choice questions, a section of short open questions and the comment of maps/graphs related to the course’s contents. This item allows the instructor to provide an evaluation of the students’ acquired knowledge and understanding of facts and concepts provided during the lectures and class activities. This item is graded according to the existing rules in a scale from 1 to 30. This part tests the understanding of the key concepts developed in the course.
2. The group essays commenting the movies, each one graded in a scale from 0 to 1 and averaged, generating an additional grading to be added to the one at the previous point, up to a maximum of 1 point.
3. Class participation (discussion, pop-up questions and other), up to 1 (one) additional point to be added to the final grade, at total discretion of the instructor.

• Parts 2) and 3) test the students ability to synthesize narratives, and develop critical thinking.
• The written exam lasts one hour (60 minutes) and consists of:
  • 6 True/False questions with motivation - up to 12 points (0-2 points each)
  • 4 open questions to be answered in no more than 5 lines each - up to 12 points (0-3 points each).
  • 1 article/table/graph to comment on - up to 6 points.

The exam is in a written form and has the same structure as the written exam of attending students. A number of additional questions are added, in order to check the study of additional materials.

• The written exam lasts one hour (60 minutes) and consists of:
  • 7 T/F questions with motivaton - up to 14 points (0-2 points each).
  • 4 open questions to be answered in no more than 5 lines each - up to 12 points (0-3 points each).
  • 1 article/table/graph to comment on - up to 5 points.

• F. AMATORI, A. COLLI, Business History: complexities and comparisons, Routledge 2010.
• T. KHANNA, K. PALEPU, "Why focused strategies may be wrong for emerging markets”, Harvard Business Review, July-August 1997.
• L. THUROW, Who owns the Twenty-First Century?,  Sloan Management Review, Spring 1992.
• Class materials available on the class website (cases and incidents).
• Class notes and PowerPoint presentations of each lesson.

• F. AMATORI, A. COLLI, Business History: complexities and comparisons, Routledge 2010.
• W. BAUMOL, R. LITAN, C.SCHRAMM, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the economics of growth and prosperity, Yale U.P. 2007.
• T. KHANNA, K. PALEPU, "Why focused strategies may be wrong for emerging markets”, Harvard Business Review, July-August 1997.
• L. THUROW, Who owns the Twenty-First Century?,  Sloan Management Review, Spring 1992.
• Class materials available on the class website (cases and incidents).

• Temi e problemi. La storia d’impresa tra evoluzione dell’impresa e dell’imprenditorialità.
• L’impresa nella prima rivoluzione industriale: tecnologia e società di fronte alla fabbrica.
• La nascita e il consolidamento della grande impresa. I riflessi sulle strutture e sulle strategie.
• Pattern nazionali nella diffusione della grande impresa.
• Varianti regionali tra Stato e mercato: Stati Uniti, Europa, Giappone.
• L’impresa nell’età dello spazio stretto: dalla seconda guerra mondiale alla terza rivoluzione industriale.
• Gli anni della globalizzazione: nuove forme, nuovi sfidanti.

• Conoscere l'origine e l'evoluzione dell'impresa industriale moderna, valutando le risposte imprenditoriali all'evolversi del quadro istituzionale e tecnologico.

• Utilizzare un approccio di natura longitudinale (analisi del passato) per comprendere la complessita' del presente.

• Lezioni frontali
• Testimonianze (in aula o a distanza)
• Analisi casi studio / Incidents guidati (tradizionali, multimediali)
• Lavori/Assignment di gruppo
• Altre attivita' d'aula interattive (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

• Testimonianze a cura di imprenditori italiani.
• Incidents e casi in forma tradizionale e multimediale.

• Esame in forma scritta (domande Vero/Falso e domande aperte): fino a 30 punti.
• Partecipazione d’aula: fino a 1 punto.

Esame in forma scritta (domande Vero/Falso e domande aperte): fino a 31 punti.

• F. AMATORI, A.COLLI, Storia d'impresa: complessità e comparazioni, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2011.
• Articoli disponibili in Course Reserve.
• Casi e incidents disponibili su Bboard.

• F. AMATORI, A.COLLI, Storia d'impresa: complessità e comparazioni, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2011.
• Articoli disponibili in Course Reserve.
• Casi e incidents disponibili su Bboard.
• W. BAUMOL, R. LITAN, C. SCHRAMM,Capitalismo buono capitalismo cattivo. L'imprenditorialità e i suoi nemici, Egea, 2013.
• Testi d'esame e Articoli on line (verifica disponibilità in Biblioteca).