Paola CILLO

SDA Bocconi Associate Professor

Paola Cillo is an Associate Professor of Management, Vice Director of the Department of Management and Technology, and Director of the Concentration in Luxury Business Management of the FT MBA Program at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. She is also a member of the Gucci Research Lab, funded by Gucci at Bocconi University and focused on research on innovation in creative organizations. She holds a Ph.D. in Management from Bocconi University. She has been Visiting Researcher at the Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2000) and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (2005) and Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College (2008) and at the University of Innsbruck (2006).

She is a Senior Professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, where she teaches courses on creativity, design thinking, and new product development, as well as on the use of big data for innovation and marketing decisions. Her research focus regards the dynamics of innovation in symbolic industries, investors’ reaction to innovation, and big data and innovation. She published several national and international books and articles in leading international journals, such as Journal of Marketing, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and European Management Journal.