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Corporate culture

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Industry at its finest gives rise to culture,
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23 December 2013

Making Milan “fly” in manufacturing, research and culture

“Far volare Milano” (literally: “Make Milan fly”) is the slogan that Assolombarda (the largest, most important regional arm of Confindustria) uses to convey the meaning behind the work being done ...

17 December 2013

Rereading Marx to find the relevance of the factory today

"The knowledge economy was born in the factory",writes Joel Mokyr, one of the leading experts on the industrial economy, in his book “The Gifts of Athena – Historical Origins of ...

10 December 2013

Corporations take to heart the appeal to save humanism

Humanism is to be defended against the “growing technicalisation of teaching” and the “corporate visions” of universities. “The appeal for human sciences”, signed by Alberto Asor Rosa, Roberto Esposito and ...

03 December 2013

Karl Popper, ethics, technology and Politecnico’s international alliances

There is profound ethical and cultural significance in technology, in science that leads to new opportunity and in innovation that continues to transform the society in which we live, making ...

25 November 2013

The “maker culture”, the new web, and a renewed drive for enterprise

A new drive for enterprise is being seen among young people according to the organisers of the “Festival of Collective Intelligence” (Festival dell’intelligenza collettiva), two days of meetings and debate ...

19 November 2013

Build bridges and stimulate dialogue: corporate culture for growth

Building bridges, not walls. Re-launching the “culture of dialog” that is such an integral part of Italian – and, indeed, European – life. In fact, “dialog” was the operative word ...

12 November 2013

Goodbye, shareholders’ agreements. Hello, better ethics score

Goodbye, shareholders’ agreements. Hello, better ethics score. This is what happened for Pirelli. After breaking up the shareholders’ agreement at the end of October, Standard Ethics raised its outlook from ...

06 November 2013

The point of the pointless: to understand and do good

Is there any point to reading Anna Karenina or listening to Brahms’ First Symphony, gazing upon Antonello da Messina’s Portrait of a Man or watching the Luchino Visconti classic The ...

29 October 2013

Better the kitchen than the factory, say Italian youth. How to promote manufacturing in...

Better to be a cook than a factory technician; better a hotel clerk than a machinery repairman. Maybe it’s because of shows like MasterChef, Ready Steady Cook (and its Italian-language ...

22 October 2013

More market culture for strengthening good businesses

Market is the keyword for growth and finding new spaces in areas of intensive development of public and private consumption, in order to define a benchmark of corporate restructuring with ...

15 October 2013

Change afoot in family-run capitalism

Family and business. These two words describe Italy’s economy and still apply today, even in this season in which new rules of international competition are at play, calling for radical ...

08 October 2013

The high-tech craftsman and the craft workshop with 3D printers

Making things by hand is an ancient art. A more sophisticated approach is to use new technologies such as computers and 3D printers. Some, such as Aldo Bonomi, an Italian ...

01 October 2013

For development, greater investment in education and more female engineers

As competitiveness in Italy falters, there are two numbers on which we should reflect: the ratios of investments in education and research to GDP, both of which are below European ...

24 September 2013

Brain drain, when a researcher in The Netherlands is worth five times an Italian...

With flight luggage labels around their wrists and grouped together in a square on a warm mid-September day, a large number of Italian researchers met up in Rome, in front ...

17 September 2013

Trust and lawfulness: keys to development

Trust. It’s a crucial part of both personal and professional relationships. Without trust, there can be no markets, even though good rules, controls and sanctions help markets to thrive and ...