ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI

ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Alessandro teaching interests and activities point at the intersection between the corporate governance structure of the firm, its top management team and leadership, and the related ways through which institutional and ownership goals are reflected into corporate and business strategy. Given the nature of these topics, that deal with the inner nature of the firm, my courses are offered at all levels of education, and more precisely in Bachelor programs, MSc, MBA, Executive MBA, as well as Executive Custom programs.


Biographical note

I am Full Professor of the Management & Technology Department of Bocconi University. I am also Professor of Corporate Governance and Family Business at SDA Bocconi, where I direct the Corporate Governance Lab, and co-direct the eSG Lab – excellence for Governance and Sustainability in SMEs. From 2017 to 2020 I have also been Director of Research at SDA. I am an active researcher and educator on the topics of ownership and governance design, especially of family-controlled firms. On these issues, I have published several scientific articles, and I actively contribute in editorial boards of journals. I holds a Ph.D. in  Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University. I am married and have three children.


Research interests

My research interest revolves around the impact of ownership and governance design on decision-making processes and strategic outcomes of various types of corporates. Specifically, I am concerned in understanding how owners’ identity and goals, as well as their individual and collective preferences, values, and emotions, can shape strategic decisions. In this respect, the research aims also to understand how corporate governance can be an effective way to mitigate risks of owners’ abuses over the company. More broadly, my aim is to investigate how an “owners’ driven” corporate governance in different types of firms, of different sizes, public and private can respond to increasing challenges in the society in terms of mitigating risks, increasing innovation, and respond to compelling social and environmental challenges.

My research and teaching activities point at the intersection between the corporate governance structure of the firm, its top management team and leadership, and the related ways through which institutional and ownership goals are reflected into corporate and business strategy. 


Selected Publications

Minichilli, Alessandro; Prencipe, Annalisa; Radhakrishnan, Suresh; Siciliano, Gianfranco
What’s in a name? Eponymous private firms and financial reporting quality
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 2022

Calabrò, Andrea; Minichilli, Alessandro; Amore, Mario; Brogi, Marina
The courage to choose! Primogeniture and leadership succession in family firms
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2018

Katalin Takacs Haynes; Alessandro Zattoni; Brian K. Boyd; Alessandro Minichilli
Figureheads or potentates? CEO power and board oversight in the context of Sarbanes Oxley
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, 2019

Amore, Mario Daniele; Minichilli, Alessandro
Local political uncertainty, family control and investment behavior
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS, 2018

Peng, Mike W.; Sun, Wei; Vlas, Cristina; Minichilli, Alessandro; Corbetta, Guido
Institution-based view on large family firms: a recap and overview
ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, 2018

Miller, Danny; Le Breton Miller, Isabelle; Amore, Mario; Minichilli, Alessandro; Corbetta, Guido Giuseppe
Institutional logics, family firm governance and performance
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING, 2017

Amore, Mario; O. Garofalo; Minichilli, Alessandro
Gender interactions within the family firm
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 2014

Minichilli, Alessandro; M. Nordqvist; Corbetta, Guido Giuseppe; Amore, Mario
CEO Succession Mechanisms, Organizational Context, and Performance: A Socio-Emotional Wealth Perspective on Family-Controlled Firms
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 2014

Miller, Danny; Minichilli, Alessandro; Corbetta, Guido
Is family leadership always beneficial?
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2013