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Padroneggiare strumenti e processi e affinare le soft skill utili alla funzione di controllo direzionale nel contesto di un’impresa sostenibile.
Laura Zoni
Accounting
Affiliate Professor
Management Control Systems
laura.zoni@sdabocconi.it
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Biography
Laura Zoni is an Affiliate Professor of Accounting & Control at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She is a Full Professor in Accounting and Management Control at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Faculty of Economics and Law.
At SDA Bocconi, she has been the Coordinator of all Accounting and Management Control courses in the MBA (Full Time). She teaches Accounting and Control mainly in the Excecutive MBA, Global Executive MBA, Master in Fashion and Design (MAFED), Master in Corporate Finance (MCF) and Custom Executive Education. Starting in 2012, she has contributed to the design of Accounting and Control courses at the SDA Bocconi Asia Center, India, where she currently teaches in the Internartional Master in Business (IMB). She has conducted research and several education projects with leading firms operating in the food, packaging, cable, energy and telecommunications and online retail industries.
Her research activities focus on performance evaluation and incentives, management accounting system change and organizational change, structure and processes of the Accounting, Control and Finance function. Currently, she is further analyzing the following main topics: the effectiveness of incentives in relation to corporate social performance, the digitalization of enterprises and innovation, business communication quality based on non-financial indicators and on Integrated Reporting (IR) systems.
She is the author of numerous books and articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in leading academic journals such as European Accounting Review, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Management Control Review. She is a consultant for the design and implementation of management control systems. She has been a Visiting Faculty at the Stern School of Business (New York University), at the Amos Tuck School of Business (Hanover, USA), at Marshall School of Business (Los Angeles, USA) and at Insead (Fontainebleau, France). She has won numerous prizes and awards including the 2008 Highly Commended Award of the Emerald Literati Network. She is a member of the Faculty Committee of the PhD Program in Economia e Innovazione at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She acts as an independent director in major listed and unlisted companies.
Laura earned a degree and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Università Bocconi. She is married with a son. She is a passionate globe trotter.
Teaching domains
Cost Management
Performance Management
Budgeting & Forecasting
Value Based Management
Latest publications
Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, Incentives, and Learning Effects
Journal of Business Ethics, 2021, vol.173, no. 3, pp.617–641
Remunerazione e Incentivazione del top management. Meccanismi ESG based in Il valore della sostenibilità. Modelli emergenti di rendicontazione non finanziaria tra le imprese italiane leader ESG
D. Galli, R. Torelli (Eds),Franco Angeli, pp.157-185, 2021
Il controllo economico e il ruolo del budget: aspetti organizzativi in Programmazione e Controllo
Arcari, A.(Ed), McGraw-Hill, chap. 11, pp.337-362, 2019
La pianificazione strategica e il ruolo del budget: aspetti metodologici in Programmazione e Controllo
Arcari, A.(Ed), McGraw-Hill, chap. 10, pp.301-336, 2019
Le metodologie di rilevazione analitica in Programmazione e Controllo
Arcari, A.(Ed), McGraw-Hill, chap. 6, pp.171-208, 2019
CFO and finance function: what matters in value creation
Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 2017, vol.13, no. 2, pp.216-238
Grants & Honors
Research Award - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
, 2013
Highly Commended Award - Emerald Literati Network
, 2008
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