Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Economics

Dear All,

because of the high amount of students' booked for the first call of General Management, and in agreement with the BAE Director (Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci),

the date for the registration (or integrative oral) has been moved to 9th June, 2025, 12.30pm.  

On this premise:

1) registration, as anticipated, will be allowed in remote (I will open a Teams call at 12.30pm and send you the link in advance).

2) Results for the first call written test (these including any eventual software extrapoints) will be published between 3rd-4th June. Thus, each of you will know well in advance her/his overall grade positioning;

3) Both the 26th May written test (11am) and software evaluation (2pm) will take place in room T1. To facilitate the logistics associated with the written test, it is important to enter the room 15 minutes before the starting. As you know, performing the test after it will have started will not be allowed.

Thanks for the attention and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

1. May, 21st, 5pm-6pm (in presence);

2. June, 5th, 1pm-2pm (in presence).

Thanks.

GA

May, 14th, 2025 (5pm-6pm), in my office.

Thanks.

GA

Dear All,

finally I would like to thank you all very much for all the engagement, attention, and dedication across this long learning journey together.

Hopefully, all the activities which we have developed, all the speakers whom you have met, and all the talks which you have done will be an opportunity for personal and professional growth.

As said, whenever you need me, please come to my office hours, which will continue to be weekly planned in the "bacheca online".

Good luck with the General Management exam, good luck with the BAE bachelor, and good luck for your future!

All the best.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

as far as the class materials to be studied for the written test of part II are concerned, this is the final summary.

1) Book Chapters:

- The Nature of Organizing, Entrepreneuring, and Reenginering
- Managing Change through Manager and Organizational Development
- Leadership
- The System and Process of Controlling
- Control Techniques and Information Technology

2) Articles:

- The Personality Factor (course website)

3) Slides:

- Problem Solving and Decision Quality Control (7th April);

- The Personality Factor (7th-8th April);

- Leadership - A. Zannoni (9th April);

- Leadership - A. Surace (16th April);

- Controlling - A. Zannoni (28th-30th April).

Clearly: 

1) if one has to perform a written test regarding the entire programme, all these materials need to be added to those regarding part I;

2) if one wants to perform the oral, the entire programme can be object of questions.

Thanks and all the best.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

good evening. As a final summary regarding the next steps with the Practice Operations software, please read carefully what follows (and which we have already summarized this morning in the classroom):

1. module 4 has been opened todate at 11am. You will have unlimited attempts to practice, and also the other modules will remain opened until May, 26th;

2. As you know, to be considered for the extrapoints at individual level, the groups will need to be present in the classroom on May, 26th, 2pm. The classroom will be communicated in due time. On May, 26th, 2pm, the groups will perform the final module "Maximize Net Worth", which includes the 4 modules all together; On that day, the module will remain open for 4 hours. During this timeframe, each group will be able to perform the final module as many times as it wants. However, only the latest result achieved will be formally registered;

3. If one (or more) person/s of a group cannot be present on May, 26th, the group can still perform the final module, but that/those person(s) will not receive individual extrapoints. The extrapoints will remain valid for all the 2024/25 academic year (Winter session included);  

4. The course website now also contains the slides regarding the McGraw Hill software (the file is dated April, 30th). On p. 4, as mentioned again to date, you can find the assignment weights.

For any further inquiry about the software, please get in touch with Dr. Anastassia Zannoni (anastassia.zannoni@uniroma2.it).

Thanks and all the best.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear All,

please remember that tomorrow's session starts at 9am.

The groups who will have to speak are kindly invited to join me in the classroom no later than 8.45am.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola 

Dear Groups participating to the Accenture Challenge,

good morning.

The Accenture team has reviewed all the works received and has found all of them interesting and well executed.

Based on a combined mix between contents’ quality, clarity and data visualization, the Accenture team invites the groups with the following contact persons to further deliver, as anticipated, a quick presentation on April, 29^th, 9am in the classroom:

1) Capobianco; 2) Mucmata; 3) Quadrana; 4) Silvaggi; 5) Potenti; 6) Bertotti; 7) Grimaldi; 8) Markaj.

On this premise, please read carefully the following rules:

1) The order of the presentations will be decided on a random basis during the presentation day;

2) Each group will have total freedom to decide how many group members will speak;

3) For organizational reasons each group will have no more than 6 minutes to present. Each presentation will be then followed by a quick Questions & Answers session with the Accenture team.

4) All the groups will already find the presentations uploaded on the same laptop usually used in the classroom.

Important, to acknowledge the interesting work done by all the groups who have sent their presentation to the Accenture team, during the presentation day all the group (either presenting or non-presenting) members will receive a certificate of attendance to the Challenge.

I do hope everything is clear.

If there are doubts, we will have time to speak on April, 28^th in the classroom.

Best wishes and enjoy the ween end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

May, 7th, 5pm-6pm.

GA

Dear All,

as promised, the results for the midterm written test are now online (exams folder).

I wish you all a nice Easter break.

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

April, 23rd, 5pm-6pm.

Thanks.

GA

Dear Students of General Management,

good morning. In terms of class materials, this week: 

1) we have concluded the topic of problem solving and decision quality control (April, 7th, slides on the website);

2) we have dealt into the personality factor (April, 7th-8th, JMG article plus slides on the website);

3) we have dealt with organizing (April, 9th, book chapter);

4) we have started to talk about leadership (April, 9th, book chapter, to be developed further, plus slides on the website, also to be developed further).

Over the next week, we will restart with leadership.

On April, 14th, as anticipated, there will be a class exercise in groups. Please, bring your laptops and the lecture will start at 9 am.

Thanks and enjoy the week end (playing Module 1 of the Practice Operations Software).

Best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

April, 10th, 5pm-6pm in my office.

Thanks.

GA

Dear All,

as anticipated, in terms of midterm the study materials are the following:

1) Chapter 1-6 of the book;

2) Articles about "Systemness" and "Enron";

3) all the slides on the website except for those about: Start Cup Lazio; Tweelin; Accenture Challenge "Rules and Timing"; AIESEC; JETOR.

4) your notes.

Again, thank you every one for this first part of General Management.

Looking forward to seeing you again soon.

Best wishes.

GA

Dear All,

the slides about Start Cup Lazio 2025, plus the Hala project winning the 2024 edition, are now in the class materials of the website.

If interested, please remember that the deadline to apply for the first phase is April, 23rd, 2025. For additional information you can also get in touch with Dr. Silvia Baiocco (silvia.baiocco@uniroma2.it), Programme Coordinator.

Furthermore, the slides about Unicorns by Dr. Federico Giannetti (federico.giannetti@uniroma2.it) are also on the website.

Thanks and see you tomorrow in the classroom.

GA

Dear Students of General Management,

as anticipated in the classroom, the idea for the fifth Students' Corner is the following.

Can you start from the slides about the strategic analysis tools to recap the most important pillars from the Tweelin's business model?

Again, this activity is not compulsory. But, if someone wants to take action, she or he will be more than welcome at the beginning of Monday's lecture (there is no need to prepare slides, we will have 15 minutes to share ideas all together).

Thanks and enjoy the week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

in terms of class materials, this week we have concluded chapter 5.

I've also uploaded both the slides about Tweelin and those regarding the strategic analysis tools concluded on March, 19th.

Will write you separately about the students' corner.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

in terms of class materials, this week we have concluded chapter 5.

I've also uploaded both the slides about Tweelin and those regarding the strategic analysis tools concluded on March, 20th.

Will write you separately about the students' corner.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

26th March 2025, 4pm-5pm in my office.

Thanks.

GA

March, 19th, 2025, 4pm-5pm in my office.

Thanks.

GA

Dear Students of General Management,

the question for the fourth Students' Corner is the following.

Is there a company which you would like to work for? Why? Please, think about 3 main reasons.

Again, this activity is not compulsory. But, if someone wants to take action, she or he will be more than welcome at the beginning of Tuesday's lecture (there is no need to prepare slides, we will have 15 minutes to share ideas all together).

Thanks and enjoy the week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

in terms of class materials what we have developed this week can be summarized as follows:

1) Planning: Chapter 4 of the book plus Accenture slides on the website;

2) Strategy: Chapter 5 of the book (not concluded) plus slide about corporate strategies on the website.

Over the next week, we wil continue with our discussion arounde the strategy questions (focus on "how).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

good morning.

Please, be informed that: 

1) the presentation about planning, budgeting and forecasting by the collegues from Accenture is now on the course website;

2) the file with all the steps and deadlines for the Accenture Challenge is also on the course website.

For any additional information about the Challenge, you can contact Dr. Anastassia Zannoni (anastassia.zannoni@uniroma2.it).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

March, 12th, 4pm-5pm in my office.

Thanks.

GA

Dear Students of General Management,

the question for the third Students' Corner is also very simple.

What is an enterprise that you consider socially responsible? Why? Please, think about 3 main reasons.

Again, this activity is not compulsory. But, if someone wants to take action, she or he will be more than welcome at the beginning of Tuesday's lecture (there is no need to prepare slides, we will have 15 minutes to share ideas all together).

Thanks and enjoy the week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

good evening.

In terms of class materials, what we have developed during the third week is as follows:

1) Corporate Social Responsibility: Chapter 2 of the textbook;

2) Enron case: Article on the course website;

3) International Management: Chapter 3 of the textbook;

Please, also remember that, as anticipated, on Monday, 10th March, we will present the Accenture Challenge during the lecture hours (9am-11am).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

March, 5th, 4pm-5pm in my office.

Thanks.

GA

Dear Students of General Management,

the question for the second Students' Corner is also very simple.

What is an enterprise that you consider a "subject" of the environment? Why? Please, think about 3 main reasons.

Again, this activity is not compulsory. But, if someone wants to take action, she or he will be more than welcome at the beginning of Monday's lecture (there is no need to prepare slides, we will have 15 minutes to share ideas all together).

Thanks and enjoy the week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

good morning.

In terms of class materials, what we have developed during the second week is as follows:

1) The Evolution of Management Thought: Chapter 1 (now concluded), plus slides on the course website;

2) Darwin's Legacy and Co-Evolution: Article "Systemness and Evolution" (on the course website), plus slides (also on the course website);

3) Firm's Life Cycle and Systemness: Article "Systemness and Evolution" (on the course website), plus slides (also on the course website).

I've also uploaded the AIESEC presentation.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

the question for the first Students' Corner is very simple.

What is an enterprise that you particularly admire? Why? Please, think about 3 main reasons.

Again, this activity is not compulsory. But, if someone wants to take action, she or he will be more than welcome at the beginning of Monday's lecture (there is no need to prepare slides, we will have 15 minutes to share ideas all together).

Thanks and enjoy the week end.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

Dear Students of General Management,

again good morning!

In terms of class materials, what we have developed during the first week is in the book, Chapter 1.

I've also uploaded the scheme about competitive forces on the course website (Class Materials).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abacola

Dear students of General Management,

good morning!

The slides about JETOR Consulting are now on the course website (Class materials).

If interested, please remember that there will be an open call for applications on March, 3rd, 7pm-8pm.

This is the link to join the call:

meet.google.com/hue-gwrb-aqg

The deadline for the applications is March, 9th.

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola

1. February, 19 (4pm-5pm), in presence;

2. February, 26 (4pm-5pm), in presence.

Thanks.

GA

Dear All,

the results of the written test (and associated proposed grades) are now in the class materials of the course ("exams" folder).

As anticipated:

1) if you are at least sufficient and you want to accept the proposed grade, you have to do nothing;

2) if you are at least sufficient, but you want to refuse the proposed grade, you have to send me a mail by 3pm to date;

3) if you are at least sufficient and you want to perform the integrative oral, you have to come in person at 3pm to date.

Thanks and best wishes.

GA

February, 13th, 7pm-8pm (online, Teams).

GA

Dear All,

because of personal reasons I have to move the weekly office hours from January, 31st, to February, 4th (12pm-1pm, in remote on Teams).

Thanks and best wishes.

Gianpaolo Abatecola