
Master Program: Full-Time MBA
Learning purpose
The SDA Bocconi MBA is an intensive full-time program in general management, ranked among the top international MBAs, which combines rigorous academic knowledge with the relevance of managerial experience and business-oriented approach, innovation with creativity and the richness of Italian heritage. In addition to 5 functional-based concentrations, such as Strategy, Corporate Finance, Investments, Innovation and Marketing, the Program offers participants the possibility to further personalize their development by choosing the sector-based Track in Luxury Business Management (LBM) in partnership with Bulgari, one of the global players on the luxury market.
Particular emphasis is given to In-company Projects (both Individual Internships and Group Projects).
Target audience
MBA is looking for highly motivated candidates, with diverse profiles and well-defined personal talents.
Programme
Curriculum
The SDA Bocconi MBA is an ambitious undertaking. While it requires drive and motivation, it offers you a unique opportunity to improve, personally and professionally. From day one and throughout the Program, you will be plunged into a very intensive period of full-time work that progresses in set stages.
It is demanding, sometimes stressful, but it is also sustainable, allowing to set a proper balance between career aspirations and personal life.
The SDA Bocconi MBA: an integrated and innovative curriculum.
- is based on real world management knowledge;
- draws directly on our faculty's current research work;
- blends together the analytical and social dimensions of managerial issues and instills ethical values;
- takes place in a unique learning environment: academic as well as practice-based; diverse, teamwork oriented; open to the outside world and fostering interpersonal communication.
The MBA also involves you outside the classroom and after hours: extra-curricular activities actually belong to the mainstream program and offer an unrepeatable opportunity to make life-long friends and to network.
Pre Courses
·Accounting
·Economics
·Quantitative Methods
·Italian for foreigners (optional)
·Intensive English (optional)
First phase - Towards Managerial Excellence
·Company Information: elaboration of the most reliable and useful company information
·Company Architecture: design and development of an economically efficient and socially viable company structure
·Company Operations: management of company operations (production, marketing and innovation)
·Company Finance: assessment and financing of valid investment projects, defining, at the same time, an efficient system of protection from financial risks
·Company Competitiveness: successful company positioning in the markets in the light of economic prospects and government regulations and policies
Second phase - Full Spectrum Management Skills
·Applied decision Making
·Project Management
·Entrepreneurship and Business Planning
·Leadership and Change Management
·Business Law and Corporate Governance
·Corporate Citizenship
Third phase - Action Learning. The project
·In-company Individual Internship
·In-company Group Project
·Entrepreneurial Project
·Research Project
Fourth phase - Concentration
·Marketing
·Corporate Finance
·Strategy
·Innovation
·Investments
Track in Luxury Business Management
Track phase in Partnership with Bulgari
International exchange program
The opportunity to complete the MBA abroad at one of the top international Partner Institutions. (September - December)
Entry Requirements
A very rigorous selection process, conducted by dedicated professionals and consultants.
Selection process is based on an overall analysis of various factors. Skills, talents and formal pre-requisites: enthusiasm, ability to listen, concentration and involvement, responsability, motivation to grow as a manager and a person. You must also score well on the formal admissions requirements.
·Degree certificate, transcript
·Professional experience, detailed CV
·Proficiency in English: if English is not your mother tongue, you must take the TOEFL, IELTS or PTE Academic tests
·GMAT
·Two letters of reference
·Interview
Professional perspective and employment market
The MBA changes you. It is proved by the statistics, the profiles and by where participants end up.
The CDS is aware of the importance of giving out complete and accurate information about its activities and their results.
Every year a Career Report is published, presenting the trend 3 and 6 months after the end of the MBA program (December each year).
The Career Report gathers, quantifies and analyses the information about the reinstatement of the MBA graduates in the labour market.

