Luca Solari
Office Phone: +390250321183
LUCA SOLARI is Professor of Organization Theory and Human resource management at the University of Milan (the second largest university in Italy) where he has taught since 2001. His academic work comprises strategy, organizational design issues, and human resource management strategies and practices, with a vast array of previous research and intervention experiences in different industries ranging from service to manufacturing. He has published extensively in Italian and English, and possesses a vast global network both in research and in the HR profession.
For the academic year 2012/2013 he has been visiting professor at the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University, in San Luis Obispo, California.
He received his B.S. degree in Italy in 1991 and his PhD in 1997 from Bocconi University. He began his career at Bocconi University, and he has taught at LIUC Castellanza, and the University of Trento. He has been visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, visiting professor at Edhec in Nice (France), and he is presently in the Faculty of the MBA Program at MIP, School of Management, Milan, Italy where he teaches Human Resources. He was responsible for designing the new strategy for continuous improvement and learning at the University of Milan, and has for several years been working on identifying areas for potential development of the integration between social media and HR processes.
He has an extensive experience in design and delivery of Corporate Executive training programs, and after a long career as Strategic Consultant in Organization and HRM, he presently acts as Corporate Sense maker, Blogger, and Social Media Experimenter, investigating the Future of Work and the Future of Productivity.
He is a Member of different academic and professional associations (Academy of Management, European Human Resource Forum, Society for Human Resource Management, AIDEA, etc.) and he acts as reviewer for different journals, including Human Resource Management.
Education:
PhD, Business Management, Bocconi University 1997 Concentration: Organization theory Dissertation Evolution and change in the population of Italian insurance companies, 1926-1995 ITP, International Teaching Program, London Business School, 1996-1997
B.S., Business management, Bocconi University 1991 Concentrations: Organization, Human resource management Summa cum laude
Professional Experience:
SDA Bocconi, Professor, 1997-‐2002; Visiting Professor EDHEC Nice ,1999-‐2001; Assistant Profssor Università degli Studi di Trento, 1997-‐2001; Lecturer, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi di Milano, 1997-‐1999; Faculty International MBA SDA Bocconi, 1999-‐2000; Visiting Scholar, Haas School of Business -‐ University of California at Berkeley, 1998; Lecturer, Libero Istituto Universitario Carlo Cattaneo di Castellanza (VA), 1993-‐1995.
Academic and Institutional Roles
2009-‐2012: Rector's Delegate for Continuous Learning, with the goal to establish a School for Continuous Learning
2008-‐2010: Member of the Controlling Body for the d.lgs 231/2001 at Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor – Milano
2006-‐2009: Member of The Board of Administrators at Università degli Studi di Milano 2003-‐2006: Member of the Academic Senate at Università degli Studi di Milano
Research Interests
He has researched change management, human resource management, organizational innovation, people strategy and has an excellent command of different research techniques both at academic and professional level.
Selected Publications:
Luca SOLARI, Ruggero ROSSI, The Lost Twin Strikes Back. Rejoining Heterogeneity and Density Dependence within Organization Ecology, Dipartimento di Informatica e Studi Aziendali, Università degli Studi di Trento, Quaderno n. 33, aprile 2000
Carlo BORZAGA, Luca SOLARI, Management challenges for social enterprises, in C.
BORZAGA, J. DEFOURNY (a cura di), The Emergence of Social Enterprise, Routledge, 2001, pp. 333-‐349
Silvia BAGDADLI, Luca SOLARI, Alessandro USAI, Anna GRANDORI, The Emergence of Career Boundaries in Unbounded Industries: Career Odysseys in the Italian New Economy, International Journal of Human Resources Management, special number on "Careers across nations", edited by F. Dany, M. Mallon and M. Arthur, 2003, vol.14, number 5, 788-‐808
Tai-‐Young KIM, Stanislav D. DOBREV, Luca SOLARI, Festina lente: learning and inertia among Italian automobile producers, 1896-‐1981, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003, vol. 12, n. 6
Luca SOLARI, Managing Transformative Change: Designing organizations using the evolutionary perspective, in V. Gupta (a cura di), Transformative Organizations: A Global Perspective, New Delhi/ California, Response Books, Sage Publications, 2004, pag. 387-‐404
Stanislav D. DOBREV, Tai-‐Young KIM, and Luca SOLARI, The two sides of the coin: core competence as capability and obsolescence, in Joel A.C. Baum and Anita M. McGahan (eds), Business Strategy over the Industry Life Cycle, Advances in Strategic Management, 21, 2004, pp. 255-‐285, Oxford UK: Elsevier/JAI Press
Luca SOLARI, Entrepreneurship at the margins of society: founding dynamics in gray (Sex shops) and black markets (Mafia) in M. Ruef e M. Lounsbury, The Sociology of
Entreprenurship, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2007
Marco GUERCI, Emilio BARTEZZAGHI, Luca SOLARI, Training evaluation in Italian
Corporate Universities: a stakeholder-‐based analysis, International Journal of Training and Development, vol. 14, n. 4, 2010, pp. 291-‐308
Edoardo DELLA TORRE, Luca SOLARI, “High Performance Work Systems, Technological Innovations and Firm Performance in SME. Evidences From Italy”, in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, special issue on "Technological Entrepreneurship:
Opportunity for High Growth Firms", vol. 3, n. 4, pp. 375-‐391. (ISSN Online: 1742-‐5379 -‐ ISSN Print: 1742-‐5360), 2011
Edoardo DELLA TORRE, Luca SOLARI, High performance work systems and the change management process in medium sized firms, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 24, n. 13, 2013, pp 2583-‐2607.
Luca SOLARI, Edoardo DELLA TORRE, From Practices To Processes: High Performance Work Systems and Integrity, in Integrity in organizations. Building the foundations for humanistic management, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (ISBN: 9781137280343). Talent management practices in Italy – implications for human resource development / M. Guerci, L. Solari. - In: Human resource development international. - ISSN 1367-8868. - ISSN 1469-8374. - (2012), pp. 1-17
Edoardo DELLA TORRE, Stefano DI PALMA, Luca SOLARI, Governance e bilateralità nel sistema italiano di formazione continua: il caso del settore metalmeccanico, Polis. Rivista di Società e Politica in Italia, vol. XXVI, n.1, 2012, pp. 31-‐65.
Employability and involuntary occupational transitions management : an explorative research with workers on unemployment benefit / F. De Battisti, S. Gilardi, R. Riccò, E.
Siletti, L. Solari. -‐ [s.l] : Department of Economics in Milano university, 2011 Dec. (Departmental working papers ; 2011-‐41)
A stakeholder perspective for sustainable HRM / M. Guerci, A.B.(Rami) Shani, L. Solari -‐ In: Sustainability and human resource management : developing sustainable business
organizations / [a cura di] I. Ehnert, W. Harry, K.J. Zink. -‐ Berlin : Springer, 2013. -‐ ISBN 978-‐3-‐642-‐37523-‐1. -‐ pp. 205-‐223
The Lone Genius, or Leaders Who Tyrannize Their Creative Teams: An Alternative to the ‘Mothering’ Model of Leadership and Creativity / J.F. Coget, A.B.(Rami) Shani, L. Solari – In: Organizational Dynamics, VOl. 43, n. 3, 2014 (forthcoming)
Professionalactivities
Extensive business consulting and organizational development background built through different experiences at Professional service firms, University level institution, and as free lance consultant in various industries (utilities, banking, insurance, Public Administration, etc.).
Past customers include companies such as ENEL, FIAT, Edison, STM, Bayer Pharma, Philips Research, Shell, Indesit, Vodafone etc.
He is an active blogger and user of social media and possesses a wide network of leading HR managers and professionals in Italy and abroad.
Recent events
-‐ 22-‐23 June, 2011, Future of HR Summit, Bruxelles
Title: From Geology to Ecology: A tectonic shift in HRM and a new mission for us
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-‐ 12-‐13 October, 2011, Senior Leaders’ HR Forum, Executive networks, Hilversum (NL) Title: The greatest HRM puzzle ever?
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-‐ 15-‐16 March 2012, Developing leaders for global roles , Najafi Global Mindset Institute, Thunderbird
Title: The world at a discontinuity, forward to Schismatrix or back to Burmese Days?
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-‐ 11 May, 2012, HRC International Meeting, Rome
Title: Innovating the workplace, from geology to ecology
-‐ 23-‐24 May, 2012, Senior Leaders' HR Forum Network Meeting -‐ EMEA Networks Academic-‐in-‐Residence, EMEA Networks