FULL-TIME MBA - SDA BOCCONI SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, MILANO, ITALY


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Full-time MBA
SDA Bocconi School of Management

Address	Via Balilla 18 - 20136 Milan - Italy
Tel. No.	+39 02 5836 3228 / 3278 / 3297 / 3298 / 3299
Fax No.	+39 02 5836 3272
E-mail address	info.ftmba@sdabocconi.it
Web address	Full Time MBA website
Course	Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Type of course	Full-time
Length of course	12 months
Date of commencement	14 December 2012
Class size	100-110 in 2 sections in English
Cost/Fees	Euro 43,500
Financial assistance	The School assists candidates in their search for funding by supplying the necessary documentation and encourages them to explore all scholarships and loans possibilities in time. Bocconi grants opportunities for low-interest loans available to admitted students, thanks to agreements with some partner banks. Furthermore the University provides international students with information about possible sources for financing in several countries.
Student profile	1. Ratio of Men / Women: 67% men – 33% women 2. Age range: 29
Top Recruiters of Bocconi's MBA	The relationship with recruiting companies is strongly connected with the job market trends and company needs, thus our Recruiting Companies may change accordingly. The list of recruiters who have offered professional opportunities to the MBA Class of 2009 Banking and Financial Services Allianz - Alpha Group - Banca IMI - Bank of America - Banque Cantonale – Vaudoise - Barclays Bank - Barclays Capital - Chatam Financial – Citi – ConLead - Credite Suisse - Delta Partners – Extrabanca – Fondamenta - SGR TTVenture Fund - Goldman Sachs - Houlihan Lokey - IFC International Finance – Corporation - IMG Investment – Management - Innogest SGR – Iperion - JP Morgan - Moodys’ Analytics - Morgan Stanley -MPS Monte dei Paschi di Siena – Nomura - Pala Investments – Sace – Sator - Standard & Poor’s - Swiss RE - Tax & Finance - The Financial Services – Authority - UniCredit - UniCredit Leasing - UniCredit Management Consulting - Wave Group - World Bank Consulting A.T.Kearney - Alix Partners – Allinweb - Alvarez & Marsal - Arthur D. Little - Bain & Company - Booz & Co. – Capgemini – Coreconsulting - CMC Consulting – EuroPraxis - G&A Consultants - Infosys Consulting – Innext - McKinsey BPO - Porsche Consulting – Pricewaterhousecoopers – PRTM - Roland Berger Strategy – Consultants - Schlumberger Business – Consulting - Tefen Consulting - The Boston Consulting Group - Value Partners - ZS Associates Consumer Products Bialetti - British American Tobacco – Ferrero – Logitech Energy & Utilities Enel – ExxonMobil - General Electric - Oil & Gas – Saras – Shell - Suntech Power Healthcare/Pharma/Agribusiness Allergan – Amgen – Lilly - Johnson & Johnson – Medtronic – Novartis - Shire Pharmaceuticals – Stallergenes – Syngenta – UCB – Volcano Industrial Products 3M - Cementir - Cementerie del Tirreno - Emerson Electrics – Hilti – iGuzzini – Kerakoll – Philips - Techint/Tenova –Whirlpool Luxury and Fashion Goods Larusmiani - L’Oreal - Timex Group - Sixty Group - Zippo Non Profit Ashoka Services ADN Kronos Italia – BravoFly - Deutsche Post World Net - LFS Life Food Systems – Mediaset – Noble - RCS Mediagroup - SBB Cargo – Starwood - Hotels&Resorts – Transcom – Unieuro –UPS Technology/Telecommunications ABB - Apple Europe - First Data - Futur3 – HP - Infosys Technologies – Logitech – Nokia – Oracle - Samsung Electronics - STMicroelectronics - Vodafone Group -Tele2
Admissions requirements	Selection process is based on an overall analysis of various factors. Skills, talents and formal pre-requisites: enthusiasm, ability to listen, concentration and involvement, responsibility, motivation to grow as a manager and a person. You must also score well on the formal admissions requirements: a degree in any discipline, tests score and work experience. Application form The application is available exclusively online, and must be completed in English. The application includes several short-answer questions which will allow us to understand more about your personal and professional experiences and your reasons for wanting to attend this MBA program. Degree certificate, transcript You are required to submit an original/official or certified original transcript of grades (in English or Italian) from the college or university attended Professional experience, detailed CV Participants in our current class have an average of 5 years work experience, with the range between 2 and 11. Proficiency in English All applicants must be highly proficient in written and spoken English. If English is not your mother tongue, you must take the TOEFL, IELTS or PTE Academic tests. GMAT This is mandatory for all candidates and must include the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). GMAT is an internationally recognized test in English that evaluates your quantitative, verbal, and analytical skills Two letters of reference These letters must be from people who know you well enough professionally and/or academically to supply an exhaustive evaluation of your professional and/or academic performance and provide a detailed evaluation of your qualifications for an MBA Application from sponsor companies In the case that your company intends to financially support your participation in the program (through partial or total payment of the tuition fee), an application must be completed by a company representative Interview After an initial review of your application, a select number of candidates will be invited for an admissions interview. This allows you to show that you possess the essential skills and talents that are the key to getting the most out of the MBA experience
Programme Director	Gianmario Verona
Contact details for application	Masters Division - Recruiting and Admissions Service Via Balilla 18 - 20136 Milan - Italy Tel: +39 02 5836 3228 / 3278 / 3297 / 3298 / 3299 Fax: +39 02 5836 3272 E-mail address: Contact Full-time MBA

About the Full-time MBA

The SDA Bocconi MBA is an ambitious undertaking. While it requires drive and motivation, it offers you a unique opportunity to improve, personally and professionally. From day one and throughout the Program, you will be plunged into a very intensive period of full-time work that progresses in set stages. It is demanding, sometimes stressful, but it is also sustainable, allowing to set a proper balance between career aspirations and personal life.

The SDA Bocconi MBA: an integrated and innovative curriculum.
• is based on real world management knowledge;
• draws directly on our faculty's current research work;
• blends together the analytical and social dimensions of managerial issues and instills ethical values;
• takes place in a unique learning environment: academic as well as practice-based; diverse, teamwork oriented; open to the outside world and fostering interpersonal communication.

In addition to the 5 functional-based concentrations, such as Strategy, Corporate Finance, Investments, Innovation and Marketing, the Program offers participants the possibility to further personalize their development by choosing the new sector-based Track in Luxury Business Management (LBM) in partnership with Bulgari, one of the global players on the luxury market.

The MBA also involves you outside the classroom and after hours: extra-curricular activities actually belong to the mainstream program and offer an unrepeatable opportunity to make life-long friends and to network.

PROGRAM TIMETABLE

Optional phase - Pre-courses

Acquire a common knowledge base may be required for those without a background in economics and finance.

Courses
• Accounting
• Economics
• Quantitative Methods

Phase 1 - Towards Managerial Excellence
5 paths to develop management knowledge, models and tools.

1. Company Information - elaboration of the most reliable and useful company information
2. Company Architecture - design and development of an economically efficient and socially viable company structure
3. Company Operations - management of company operations (production, marketing and innovation)
4. Company Finance - assessment and financing of valid investement projects, defining, at the same time, an efficient system of protection from financial risks
5. Company Competitiveness - successful company positioning in the markets in the light of economic prospects and government regulations and policies

Phase 2 - Full-spectrum Management Skills
"Soft skills" development in 6 areas:

1. Applied Decision Making - Making decisions in complex situations through:
• Large Scale Business Case
• Large Scale Business Game

2. Project Management - Learn the best practice on the way project management methodologies and behaviours are customised for specific situation and needs.

3. Entrepreneurship and Business Planning - Plan and manage entrepreneurial ventures both in a start-up context and within existing corporations:
• Evaluate opportunities
• Structure and write a Business Plan
• Forecast and simulate economic and financial results of the venture
• Present and sell your Business Plan

4. Leadership and Change Management - Learn how to lead in:
• Project Management
• Change Management

5. Business Law and Corporate Governance - The legal structure and the power games taking place inside corporations:
• Company Law
• Contract Law
• Economics of Corporate Governance

6. - Corporate Citizenship - Understand the relationships a socially responsible company undertakes with stakeholders:
• Map both market- and non-market stakeholders
• Manage relational liabilities through corporate citizenship practices in multi-cultural environments
• Ensure that corporate citizenship practices are coherent with broader corporate political strategies

Phase 3 - Action Learning. The Project
You must tackle real, complex problems, blending together the knowledge and skills from different functional areas.

You put into practice the theory you have acquired, broadening your horizons and enriching your management skills.

The Project lasts minimum of eight weeks or a maximum of twelve weeks, during a period from the beginning of June to the end of August. To fulfill your project requirements, you must complete one of the following four options:

• In-company Individual Internship
• In-company Group Project
• Entrepreneurial Project
• Research Project

Phase 4 - Concentrations
The opportunity to personalise your own development path.
In the final two months of the Program you have the opportunity to focus your path on those specific managerial subjects, in line with your preferences and abilities. More than 20 electives are offered every year. The Electives are grouped into three main and three niche Concentrations, covering the most important fields in management.

MAIN CONCENTRATIONS

Marketing
• Channel and Brand Management
• Customer Value Management
• Digital & Interactive Marketing
• A Quantitative Approach to Marketing
• Regulations and Antitrust

Corporate Finance
• Structured & Project Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Derivatives in Corporate Finance
• Private Equity & Corporate Restructuring
• The Practice of Finance

Strategy
• Corporate Political Strategies
• Going Global: Internationalization Strategies
• Strategic Decision Making
• Corporate Development Strategies: Mergers, Acquisitions & Partnerships
• Change and Organizational Renewal Strategies

NICHE CONCENTRATIONS

Innovation
• New Product Development and Design
• Ideating & Marketing New Products

Investments
• Asset Management
• Real Estate Investment

Track in Luxury Business Management
• Foundation courses
• Internship or field project
• Advanced courses

International Exchange Program

The opportunity to complete the MBA abroad at one of the top international Partener Institutions. As a major international school of management, SDA Bocconi is engaged in an active and prestigious network of exchanges, collaborations and interactions with its peer institutions. The International Exchange Program offers selected candidates the opportunity to spend the last months of the program at prestigious institutions. The Exchange Program Network

Europe
ESADE Business School (Barcellona); ESSEC Business School (Cergy-Pontoise); HEC MBA (Jouy-en-Josas); IE, Instituto de Empresa (Madrid); KOC University, Graduate School of Business (Istanbul); London Business School (London); MBS, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (Manchester); RSM, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Rotterdam)

USA
Babson College (Babson Park, MA); Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH); Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (Durham, NC); The Johnson School at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL); Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); Stern School of Business, New York University (New York, NY); Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Hanover, NH); UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA); UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC); The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago, IL); Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL); Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA);

Canada
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON); Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC); Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto, ON);

Australia
AGSM MBA Program Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW); MBS, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, VIC);

Brazil
FGV-EAESP, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (São Paulo)

China
CEIBS, China Europe International Business School (Shanghai); SEM, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (Beijing)

India
ISB - Indian School of Business (Hyderabad)

Japan
Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan (Niigata)

About SDA Bocconi School of Management

Founded in 1971 by Università Bocconi, SDA Bocconi School of Management was first a pioneer in Italy and today enjoys international recognition as a leading management school. Its mission is to educate men and women ready to act anywhere in the world, using their knowledge and imagination.

SDA Bocconi dedicates energy and resources to creating value and spreading values. Proof of this are its research, teaching and relations with the scientific, business and institutional communities. It is exemplified by its exchanges, international approach, critical spirit, pragmatism, curiosity and innovative strength. Knowledge and imagination are the shared pride and heritage of the faculty, its students, and thousands of alumni around the world.

In 1998, SDA Bocconi was the first institution in Italy to obtain EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation. SDA Bocconi operates on all the strategic fronts of education: executive courses, tailor-made courses, specialist master degrees and MBA programmes.

Knowledge and Imagination

SDA Bocconi School of Management is designed to optimize resources following the canons that drive successful businesses everywhere. In designing new offerings we encourage the fast, flexible and creative interaction of these canons by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty. The knowledge they impart and the imagination they bring to their efforts in turn enables individuals and organizations to improve their management culture, to more efficiently oversee resources, and to inspire the full potential of each employee. Our education involves both the exploration of theoretical models and the day-to-day reality of running a successful enterprise, and we instil in our students skills, knowledge and tools they can use every day when facing the challenges of an evolving marketplace.

Five Divisions are responsible for the various market areas. They work with the Departments to update open enrollment programs and to develop new products according to demand. Since companies often require multidisciplinary courses drawing from more than one Department, Project Groups follow the evolution of demand for education on particular issues.

This flexible system of widespread entrepreneurship means that the SDA Bocconi School of Management can respond quickly with custom executive programs that complement an already extensive portfolio of educational products. Companies, institutions and individuals who come to us find we are passionately committed to inspiring the professional and personal growth of each and every student.

Latest Rankings

SDA Bocconi is Italy's number one School of Management and now, according to the Financial Times' Global MBA Rankings 2011, the only Italian School in the European top 10 and the world's top 30. SDA Bocconi is also the only Italian School on the top of the charts of all main International Rankings. SDA Bocconi is first in the world in the Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking for Full-Time MBA Return On Investment, 7th in the Financial Times’ Best European Business Rankings, and 18th in the world, US excluded, in the general Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking. In addition, SDA Bocconi reached 6th position in Europe in the QS Top MBA Ranking based on the assessments of Recruiters.

A further testimony of the quality of the programs offered by SDA Bocconi is the accreditation by the AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), announced on 5 December 2011 by the Board of Directors of AACSB International. This accreditation, in addition to the previously awarded EQUIS and AMBA, marks the completion of the top three accreditations - the "triple crown" - offered to the top international business schools by the most important international institutions, and places the School among just 55 Business Schools worldwide to have received the AACSB accreditation.

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