Reading time: 4 minutes Do you miss receiving the details of your flight instead of a Zoom link? So do we, but virtual assessment centres do not fail to deliver the escapist experience we [ … ]
So What about the Blended Format?
Reading time: 11 minutes The Dossier So, What about the Blended Format? Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on whatsapp Share on email This semester marked a new phase for [ … ]
Phase 3 – Interview with the Rector
Reading time: 4 minutes We want you back! On 18 June Bocconi announced that it will enter Phase 3 starting in September 2020 and that teaching activities will resume both in-person and in-distance. We are [ … ]
What a time to be Bocconiani
Reading time: 5 minutes Our sense of community: this is what struck me the most when I arrived on campus, twenty-one months ago. I had not left Italy, yet I suddenly found myself in [ … ]
Starving the Beast: Convexity Hedges and Bond Market Distortion
Reading time: 5 minutes March has undoubtedly been a wild month for the markets. We have witnessed the largest daily point gain ever occurred in history in the S&P500, followed by a record negative [ … ]
Books under quarantine: two hours in the Library
Reading time: 4 minutes After 84 days of lockdown, our beloved library is accessible again. At 10:00 am today a few brave (or delirious?) students were standing in line in awkward silence. I could [ … ]
Financial Inclusion: reaching out to the unbanked
Reading time: 5 minutes FinTech has undoubtedly been a fairly popular buzzword in recent times, but one of its most promising applications is often overlooked: granting access to financial services to the unbanked, those [ … ]
A farewell to LIBOR
Reading time: 6 minutes by Barbara Balcon What is LIBOR? First published in 1986, the London Interbank Offer rate (LIBOR) is the interest rate at which funds are offered for sale in the Eurodollar [ … ]
Luigi Castiglioni – from plants to fine arts
Reading time: < 1 minute di Barbara Balcon The recently built Castiglioni Residence Hall is named after the street where it is located, Via Luigi Castiglioni. Luigi Castiglioni was born in Milan, on October 3, [ … ]
Lady Javotte Bocconi: a special friend of our University
Reading time: < 1 minute by Barbara Balcon After having discovered who the streets and squares of our campus are named after (in case you have missed it: Wilhelm Röntgen, Angelo Sraffa, Ulisse Gobbi and [ … ]