Alberto Grando
Strategy and Operations
Full Professor
Operations & Supply Chain Management
alberto.grando@sdabocconi.it
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Biography
Alberto Grando is a Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management.
He is a Full Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Università Bocconi. At SDA Bocconi, he was Dean from 2006 to 2012. At Università Bocconi, he was Vice Rector for Development from 2012 to 2016 and Dean for Strategy Implementation from 2017 to 2018. Currently he serves as President of the Evaluation Committee at Università Bocconi
His research activities focus on supply chain and logistics management, operations organization and management and performance measurement. Currently, he is taking an interest in sustainable operations management, lean thinking and Industry 4.0.
He is the author of numerous books and articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning and Control, the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, the European Management Journal, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Human Systems Management and Economia & Management, among others.
He has conducted numerous research projects and workshops in large companies operating in the manufacturing industry as well as in many small and medium-sized enterprises.
He was a Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management (UK) and at other international universities and schools; he is a Board Member of various Scientific and Academic Advisory Boards of national and international Institutions and research centers.
Alberto earned a degree in Business Administration from Università Bocconi and an ITP (International Teachers Programme) from London Business School.
Teaching domains
Supply Chain Management
Operations
Sustainable Supply Chain
Latest publications
La sfida sostenibilità nella value chain. Adozione degli standard GRI crescente e da rafforzare
Economia & Management, 2024, no. 3, pp.6-15
Sustaining lean changes: the influence and significance of different change sustainability factors in maturing lean change programmes
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2024, vol.35, no. 1, pp.54-73
The Selection of Industry 4.0 Technologies Through Bayesian Networks: An Operational Perspective
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2024, vol.71, pp.2921-2936
Disruptive social manufacturing models: lessons learned from Ferrari cars and Isinnova networks for a post-pandemic value creation path
Production Planning & Control, 2023, vol.34, no. 12, pp.1135-1148
Do automation and AI impact on job reduction? A study on perceived risk of losing job among white-collars in the Italian manufacturing companies
Production Planning & Control, 2023, pp.1-14
Lean Production e tecnologie Industry 4.0. Quali sinergie possibili in Innovazione e Management: Omaggio a Salvio Vicari
G. Bertoli, S. Castaldo, P. Cillo, G. Troilo, G. Verona (Eds),Egea, pp.551-560, 2022
Grants & Honors
Best Teaching Innovation Project for academic year 2013-2014, Research Division (with L. Etro, S. Mitterhofer, A. Pena) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2015
Excellence in Teaching Award for academic year 2011-2012 - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2013
Best Article of 2012 (Co-Authors E. Baglieri, M. Bruno, E. Vasconcelos) - Economia & Management
, 2012
Best Paper Award 2011, DIR – Research Division (Co-Authors V. Belvedere and P. Bielli) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2012
Excellence in Research Award 2011 - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2012
Excellence in Teaching Award for academic year 2009-2010 - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2012