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Corporate culture

curated by Antonio Calabrò

Industry at its finest gives rise to culture,
forging original combinations of value and values, profitability and social relations
A recognition of the best children’s books, to build a new ‘grammar of fantasy’
“I never stopped reading, reading, reading; every book I read represented a facet of the infinite, which I chased and chased, and always failed to catch.” Words by Pietro Citati ...
Leggi A recognition of the best children’s books, to build a new ‘grammar of fantasy’
The dual mood of Italy: melancholic yet energetic, thanks to its booming industry
An Italy that's both melancholic and animated, full of energy, capable of confident leaps forward as concerning the economy. Indeed, though marked by discomfort and deterioration – starting with its ...
Leggi The dual mood of Italy: melancholic yet energetic, thanks to its booming industry
What companies want to feel more secure: a strategic EU fund for energy and...
Being Europe, in spite of everything. In spite of the eruption, on the European scene too, of short-sighted, national self-interests and populist-cum-sovreignist tensions, which could shatter a democratic and political ...
Leggi What companies want to feel more secure: a strategic EU fund for energy and...
The teachings of chemist and writer Primo Levi apply to higher technical institutes (ITS),...
“Weigh your words” with a passion for exactitude, as if a speech or a written page were a chemical compound; “Do not trust inaccurate words”, just as you wouldn't randomly ...
Leggi The teachings of chemist and writer Primo Levi apply to higher technical institutes (ITS),...
An industrial and civic Renaissance, involving universities, neo-factories and smart cities
“Shaping the future” – this is the motto that defines the new 2022/23 academic year at the University of Milano-Bicocca, which counts 37,000 students, 1,200 professors, 73 programmes and a ...
Leggi An industrial and civic Renaissance, involving universities, neo-factories and smart cities
Milan – home of the BookCity literary festival and of good reading, as well...
Umberto Eco slowly walks across the rooms of his large house in Piazza Castello, in Milan – a veritable ‘house of books’ with more than 30,000 volumes collected over years ...
Leggi Milan – home of the BookCity literary festival and of good reading, as well...
The advantages of corporate welfare, amongst new roles and traditions: Pirelli, Olivetti, Marzotto…
In such difficult and uncertain times, we should reconsider corporate welfare and consolidate the role of strong social capital as an essential asset on which companies can erect new and ...
Leggi The advantages of corporate welfare, amongst new roles and traditions: Pirelli, Olivetti, Marzotto…
Companies as communities of people – the true value of competitiveness
In such a difficult and controversial period, it’s worth taking the time to reflect about the value of words, their deepest meaning, their etymology, and try to rescue public debate ...
Leggi Companies as communities of people – the true value of competitiveness
Here’s why factories are good for Italy and for bridging the gap with the...
Perché le fabbriche fanno bene all’Italia (Why factories are good for Italy) – a very effective title for the book written by Rachele Sessa, director of the Ergo Foundation (an ...
Leggi Here’s why factories are good for Italy and for bridging the gap with the...
Investing in science and basic research – what Aspen thinks and Calvino teaches us
In this long and controversial period marked by uncertainty and conflict, vulgar and slovenly populism and authoritarian rhetorics further fostered by fake news, the only way to neither succumb nor ...
Leggi Investing in science and basic research – what Aspen thinks and Calvino teaches us
Will the enthusiasm for “expertise” in government really usher us into a new political...
Expertise. A recurring term in political debates following the elections of 25 September as well as, of course, in discussions pertaining the economic and entrepreneurial world, currently struggling amidst geopolitical ...
Leggi Will the enthusiasm for “expertise” in government really usher us into a new political...
A “gentle capitalism” for the growth of enterprises and the building of a sustainable...
Katia Da Ros, Venetian entrepreneur (her company, Irinox, manufactures high-tech cold-storage appliances for the food industry) and Vice President for Sustainability and Culture at territorial entrepreneurial institution Confindustria, believes that ...
Leggi A “gentle capitalism” for the growth of enterprises and the building of a sustainable...
In the Italy of the crisis and of the “demographic winter” there needs to...
“If you want democracy, first of all, to be enacted and then to endure and become more perfect, school, in the long term, can be said to be more important ...
Leggi In the Italy of the crisis and of the “demographic winter” there needs to...
Rereading article 9 of the Italian Constitution – culture, science and environment, to place...
Rereading Article 9 of the Italian Constitution, in order to contemplate the strategies and quality of Italy's economic and social development and reflect on how relevant that formal and solemn ...
Leggi Rereading article 9 of the Italian Constitution – culture, science and environment, to place...
Work priorities to include dignity and future, as discussed at the meeting between the...
“We were born and raised amongst labourers, machinery and corporate developments and we soon learned to love work, workers and our Company, which embodied the best parts of our life.” ...
Leggi Work priorities to include dignity and future, as discussed at the meeting between the...