Sustainability Lab
Sustainability as a strategy to stimulate sustainable and lasting economic growth. The SDA Bocconi Sustainability Lab considers the needs of stakeholders and companies, and acts as a point of reference for innovative solutions aimed at market operators, institutions and civil society for creating long term sustainable values.
At a time when the globalization process and current social and environmental changes are forcing businesses to radically rethink their future, the Sustainability Lab offers pragmatic and concrete guidelines to investors and organizations.
Why Sustainability Lab?
Benefiting from in depth scientific research activities, the SDA Bocconi Sustainability Lab aims to develop and disseminate strategic information that allows companies to maintain and review the current and future market positioning of their business from a sustainability perspective.
The Sustainability Lab is based on three main activities:
- supporting businesses in adapting to a changing environment (market, regulatory system, stakeholder expectations)
- providing economic operators with relevant information with the goal of providing useful tools for guiding current and future strategies
- identifying and recommending lasting and sustainable growth processes at a time when supporting the enterprise system means promoting the entire country system.
The activities
The Sustainability Lab - directed by FRANCESCO PERRINI - operates in four main areas:
Sustainable strategies and practices
Coordinator: Valentina Perissinotto
In a scenario where ongoing global changes in the economic, social and environmental fabric are testing the limits of the Planet.
Sustainable blue economy
Coordinator: Stephen Pogutz
The ocean, seas, and coasts provide a source of ecoservices (e.g., fisheries, oxygen production, CO2 absorption, and climate regulation) that underlie our social and economic well-being.
Energy transition
Coordinator: Matteo Di Castelnuovo
Energy plays a key role in every country's sustainable development and is a pivotal issue in achieving many of the seventeen SDGs.
Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy
Coordinator: Francesco Perrini
National and international dynamics in the nonprofit sector reveal an increase in competitive pressure and management complexity, calling for more coherent models of intervention, seeking appropriate solutions to complex social problems. The Lab supports high social impact organizations interested in strengthening their responsiveness, through the improvement of decision-making processes related to resource allocation, the management of dialogue with internal and external stakeholders, up to the development of measurement tools capable of highlighting, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the effectiveness in the creation of social and economic value related to the main areas of impact of the change projects put in place.
Events
Sustainable supply chain management, between CSDDD and judicial administration
People
Learn about the Sustainability Lab team, made up of faculty, researchers and professionals committed to environmental, economic and social sustainability issues.
Monitor
Social Sustainability Monitor
The Social Sustainability Monitor is the result of a partnership between SDA Bocconi 's Sustainability Lab and F2A, a leader in outsourcing of integrated services, payroll, personnel administration and accounting.
Monitor for Furniture Pact
In a context where ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues are becoming an increasingly important driver, the goal of the Monitor for Furniture Pact is to create an ecosystem of companies committed to the path to sustainability, constantly reducing their environmental and social impacts, and scaling the creation of shared value along the materials and circularity supply chain.
Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Monitor
The Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain (SOSC) Monitor is a branch of the Sustainability Lab at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, focused on scientific and applied research in sustainable operations and supply chain management. The SOSC Monitor provides interested companies with scientific research, methodological knowledge, practical resources, and educational programs useful for integrating sustainability into product and process operations as well as global and complex supply chains.
Monitor for Circular Fashion
The Monitor for Circular Fashion is a multi-stakeholder project involving leading companies in the fashion industry and players in its supply chain. SDA Bocconi’s Sustainability Lab is the project’s scientific partner cross-industry vision to identify circularity KPIs.
Impact Investing
Since 2013, the SDA Bocconi Impact Investing Monitor has been a national and international facility for developing investment projects capable of combining economic and financial sustainability with the production of positive impacts on society.
CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility Monitor
The CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Monitor is a qualified think tank on the subject of corporate social responsibility in multinational groups. The Observatory aims to create an authoritative panel of Italian multinational companies interested in deepening their knowledge on the subject.
News
Sustainability and ESG Investments: An SDA Bocconi Study Tells the Needs of European SMEs
1 December 2023
Italian companies and ESG approach: Sustainability Lab's latest study published
24 February 2023
Corporate Giving in Italy: the value of donations and contributions by companies grew
28 February 2022
