Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Economics

Dear All,

mid-term exam results now online.

If you need me, please do come to my office (Room 55, First Floor, Research Building):

1. April, 17th, 1pm-2pm;

2. April, 24th, 1pm-2pm.

Other office hours will of course be available in May.

Thanks and looking forward to seeing you on next Monday.

GA

Dear All,

thank you very much for all your efforts to date.

I've finally collected 16 presentations.

Please, do remember that the task is not concluded.

Tomorrow, some groups will be called to the desk to talk about their chosen leaders with the classroom!

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Groups,

please remember that the deadline to submit your ppt presentations is April, 17th, 9am.

The file needs to be sent to anastassia.zannoni@uniroma2.it and abatecola@economia.uniroma2.it.

Thanks.

GA

1) April, 3rd (11am-12pm);

2) April, 9th (11am-12pm);

3) April, 17th (11am-12pm);

4) April, 24th (11m-12pm).

Thanks and have a nice Easter break.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

the slides about decision making are now on the website.

Thus:

1)  in terms of class materials for the mid-term exam, the following have to be studied: a) chapters 1-6 of the textbook; b) the article about systemness and evolution on the website; c) the article about Enron on the website; d) all the slides on the website, except for those entitled "StartCupLazio 2024", "Accenture Challenge: Rules and Timing", and "JETOR Consulting". Your notes during the lectures will be a value added also!

2) Booking is compulsory for the mid-term. The mid-term, as you know, will be a 1.30 minutes open-ended question test (3 questions). Rules on how to use the evaluation from the mid-term are (and have always been) on the website;

3) Anastassia Zannoni will follow up this mail with the first instructions for the McGraw Hill Operations Software, which we will start to use once back to the classroom in April.

Overall, thank you very much for all your commitment the attention and engagement so far!

Have a nice Easter break.

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

in terms of topics faced this week (and related class materials), the following summary can be hopefully helpful:

1) March, 18th:

a) Systemness: Article about "systemness and evolution" (in the course website) plus slides (in the course website, now uploaded);

b) StartCup Lazio (deadline to apply, May 6th): slides (in the course website, now uploaded).

2) March, 20th

1) Corporate Strategies: Slides in the course website, now uploaded.

On Monday, we will continue with strategy-related issues (Chapter 5 of the textbook). 

Thanks and have a nice week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

in terms of topics faced this week (and related class materials), the following summary can be hopefully helpful:

1) March, 11th:

a) Culture and Porter's National Diamond: Textbook (Chapter 3);

b) Unicorns (Slides in the course website, now uploaded).

2) March, 12th

1) Enterprise Performance Management: The Accenture Experience (Slides in the course website, now uploaded).

2) Accenture Challenge: Rules and Timing (Slides in the course website, now uploaded).

3) March, 13th

1) Planning: Textbook (Chapter 4);

2) Liability of Newness: Article about "systemness and evolution" (in the course website) plus slides (in the course website, now uploaded).

 Thanks and have a nice week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

in terms of class materials, this is the update for this week:

1) Co-Evolution and Firm's Life Cycle: Article "Systemness and Evolution" (course website), plus slides (course website);

2) Corporate Social Responsibility: (Textbook, Chapter 2);

3) Enron: Article "Enron" (course website), plus slides (course website);

4) International Management: (Textbook, Chapter 3).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

I am sorry, but for personal reasons I have to cancel my office hours scheduled for this afternoon, 4pm in my office.

I will regularly restart to have office hours (again in my office) next on Wednesday, 13th March, 4pm.

Thanks.

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

as anticipated in the classroom, because of the Easter break the mid-term exam has been moved to April, 3rd, 2024 (9am-11am).

Rules remain equal.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

thanks for joining the second week of the General Management classes of our Bachelor in Business Administration and Economics.

In terms of class materials, the topics regarding the evolution of management thought (Taylor, Weber, Fayol, Barnard) can be found in Chapter 1 of the textbook, which is now over. I've also uploaded the slides presented in the classroom.

On Wednesday, we have also started discussing about the comparison between biological and business systems, which is the core of the class material article (course website) about "systemness and evolution". We will continue with this comparison (and with the explanation of that article) during the first lecture of the next week.    

Looking forward to seeing you in the classroom on Monday, 4th, March.

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

as anticipated in the classroom this morning, if you are interested to apply to this interesting competition implemented by Unilever, the deadline is March, 1st, 2024. The link to apply follows below:

Unilever: Unilever Future Leaders' League 2024 (joinrs.com)

For any further information about the competition (and associated application), you can mail Riccardo Casa at Riccardo.Casa@unilever.com

Thank you and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola 

Dear All,

thanks for joining the first week of the General Management classes of our Bachelor in Business Administration and Economics.

In terms of class materials, the topics which we have covered during the lectures can be found in Chapter 1 of the textbook.

I've also uploaded the slides regarding the competitive forces' scheme, plus the value chain, on the course's website.

Looking forward to seeing you in the classroom on Monday, 26th.

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

- February, 21st (4pm-5pm)

- February, 28st (4pm-5pm)

- March, 6th (4pm-5pm)

- March, 13th (4pm-5pm)

- March, 20th (4pm-5pm)

- March, 27th (4pm-5pm)

Office hours are scheduled to be only in presence, in my office.

Thanks.

GA

February, 9th, 2024 (12pm-1pm), in person (in my office).

Thanks.

GA

CODE             RESULT

0327790      21

0323412      20 (including software extrapoints)

0332816      Not sufficient

0335103      21

0322313      27 (including software extrapoints)

0335631      22 (including software extrapoints)

0328053      Not sufficient

0299560      Not sufficient

0279654      Not sufficient

0324569      18

February, 1st, 2024, 10am-11am (in person, in my office).

Thanks.

GA

CODE                        RESULT

0310286                   22

0330963                   25

0323090                   20 (including software)

0326437                   23 (including software)

0333236                   18

0329594                   19

Thanks and see you tomorrow at 9am.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

the next office hours are scheduled on January, 12th, 2024 (6pm-7pm), in person in my office.

In the meanwhile,

I would like to wish you the best for the upcoming holy Christmas and happy new year.

Gianpaolo Abatecola