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Activities and Projects

In accordance with its mission, the activities of ALTIS cover many aspects:

 

Postgraduate Education

ALTIS is characterised by the offer of high quality training courses, and its strong connections with the business world. Courses are taught by academic professors, business professionals and managers, making a wide use of case studies.
Particular attention is paid to internships in Italy and abroad, which give the opportunity to put the theoretical knowledge into practice.
ALTIS postgraduate education programs offer Masters, Executive courses and Intensive courses (1 to 3 days), the latter tailored on specific themes, relevant for the entrepreneurial context.
Furthermore ALTIS, promotes, coordinates, organizes and participates, as a scientific partner, in initiatives such as seminars, carried on in partnership with companies or important institutions.

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Basic and applied research

ALTIS promotes research projects at both national and international level, using the latest research methodologies applied to management science, without losing sight of the real and concrete business and the contribution owned to the economic and social development.

Basic research. ALTIS research covers fundamental topics relevant to its Divisions. Some of the most recent are:

  • CSR and Governance in Industrial Districts;
  • Indicators of Innovation in SMEs;
  • Training, Human Capital and Internationalisation;
  • Reputational Risk in Business Strategy;
  • Sustainable Reports and Intangibles;
  • Ethical Supply Chain Management
  • Foundations in the Italian context

Customized research projects. ALTIS designs research programmes on request of companies, organisations and institutions. For example:

  • CSR in Large-Scale Retail Trade;
  • A Model for Sustainability Report of a Political Region;
  • Environmental impact of car fleets
  • Sustainability Polices in the Insurance Industry.

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Observatories and permanet projects

ALTIS can count on a team of researchers and operators that can plan, organize, launch and maintain extensive permanent projects and observatories.
As far as the CSR theme is concerned, various initiatives have been developed, aimed at building networking and matching opportunities between the private, public and non profit sectors, and at monitoring and promoting the CSR culture both towards the Italian entrepreneurial world and at an international level.
In particular:

  • ALTIS-OPERANDI Observatory for Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • ALTIS-ISVI Observatory for Sustainability Reports.
  • Observatory for Small Size Enterprises in the Milan Area.
  • Borsa Progetti Sociali (Social Projects Exchange)
  • Chinese Italian Laboratory for CSR and Entrepreneurship
  • CSR Manager Network Italia.

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Publications

Thanks to its intensive research programs, the development of projects and observatories the ALTIS Team has produced, since 2005, more than 70 publications, among which books, national and international articles, working papers, booklets etc, especially in the area of CSR and Sustainability, Non Profit and Social Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Industrial Districts, Finance and Development.

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Events

The wider and wider acknowledgment of ALTIS as excellence centre for the themes of CSR, sustainable finance and Non Profit has turned the School to a natural reference point, co-organizer promoter or first row protagonist of events, forums, workshops and seminars on these themes, often organized in partnership with primary market players, institutions and addressed both to a targeted and a general audience.

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Awards

Both as a promoter and as a official partner among international networks, ALTIS has recently organized different awards targeted at the entrepreneurial context. In particular:

Global Social Venture Competition
The international competition, conceived to give value and visibility to innovative and social responsible business initiatives, selects Social Ventures, ie, profit and non profit financially sustainable activities. ALTIS is the Italian Chapter of GSVC and takes care both of the domestic promotion of the Competition and of the selection of the best Italian business plans, that will compete at an international level, until the final selection in California in April 2009. For more information, please visit the GSVC website.

Premio Famiglia lavoro (Family-Job Award)
The Family-Job Award is a competition aiming at selecting and promoting the best experiences and projects within Lombardy companies in favor of the reconciliation between work- and family life. The Award intends to highlight one of the hottest issues, at an international level, within Corporate Social Responsibility.

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