Programma

The course illustrates and debates the following main topics:
• Strategic and organizational changes in the Financial Services Industry (FSI)
• Regulation and technology: their impact on competitive strategies
• Theoretical frameworks to analyse strategic and organizational change: from Industrial Organization to Strategic Management in FSI
• Business strategies in FSI: the basic strategies and their application (cost leadership, differentiation, segmentation)
• Corporate strategies in FSI: diversification and competencies
• The emerging challenges of Fintech
• Competitive strategies and social impact: stakeholders and CSR
• Evidences from European Banking Industry

Testi Adottati

For non attending students: Markus Venzin, Building an International Financial Services Firm: How to design and execute cross-border strategies, Oxford University Press, 2009. You can find some copies of it in our library “Pierangelo Garegnani”, ground floor.
For attending students: slides and readings at disposal on the website of the course

Modalità Erogazione

Lectures, seminars, case discussions, project works, business cases presentation In case of sanitary emergence for COVID-19 we follow all the safe rules for managing lectures and student assessment, i.e.: online lectures (recorded and live streaming), students online assessment (intermediate and final)

Modalità Frequenza

It better to attend the course, especially for the intense team involvement in project works

Modalità Valutazione

For attending students the assessment is based on project works and oral test on programme contents For non attending students the assesment is based on oral test. For this test you must read: Markus Venzin, Building an International Financial Services Firm: How to design and execute cross-border strategies, Oxford University Press, 2009. You can find some copies of it in our library “Pierangelo Garegnani”, ground floor.

Programma

The course illustrates and debates the following main topics:
• Strategic and organizational changes in the Financial Services Industry (FSI)
• Regulation and technology: their impact on competitive strategies
• Theoretical frameworks to analyse strategic and organizational change: from Industrial Organization to Strategic Management in FSI
• Business strategies in FSI: the basic strategies and their application (cost leadership, differentiation, segmentation)
• Corporate strategies in FSI: diversification and competencies
• The emerging challenges of Fintech
• Competitive strategies and social impact: stakeholders and CSR
• Evidences from European Banking Industry

Testi Adottati

For non attending students: Markus Venzin, Building an International Financial Services Firm: How to design and execute cross-border strategies, Oxford University Press, 2009. You can find some copies of it in our library “Pierangelo Garegnani”, ground floor.
For attending students: slides and readings at disposal on the website of the course

Modalità Erogazione

Lectures, seminars, case discussions, project works, business cases presentation In case of sanitary emergence for COVID-19 we follow all the safe rules for managing lectures and student assessment, i.e.: online lectures (recorded and live streaming), students online assessment (intermediate and final)

Modalità Frequenza

It better to attend the course, especially for the intense team involvement in project works

Modalità Valutazione

For attending students the assessment is based on project works and oral test on programme contents For non attending students the assesment is based on oral test. For this test you must read: Markus Venzin, Building an International Financial Services Firm: How to design and execute cross-border strategies, Oxford University Press, 2009. You can find some copies of it in our library “Pierangelo Garegnani”, ground floor.