UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA
Department of Business
Government
Philosophy Studies
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ETAILS(Update: December 30th, 2015) Nationality: Italian
Current Position: Ph.D. student in Business Management&Accounting
Office: Tor Vergata University
(ranked 33 in the 2014 QS University Ranking “Top 50 Under 50”)
Department of Business Government Philosophy Studies Via Columbia 2, 00133, Rome, Italy
Phone Numbers: +39(0)6-72595518 (Office); +39(0)6-72595804 (Fax)
E-mail: matteo.cristofaro@uniroma2.it
Home page: http://economia.uniroma2.it/igf/dottorandi/72-429/matteo-cristofaro-Twitter Name: @MattCristofaro
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matteo-cristofaro/51/695/401 Academia.Edu: https://uniroma2.academia.edu/MCristofaro
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Summary
1. Profile Summary 2. Employment history 3. Education and Degree 4. Research 4.1 Interests 4.2 Publications 4.2.1 Journal Articles 4.3 Projects 4.4 Service
4.4.1 Academic Memberships & Peer Review Activities 4.4.2 Other 5. Teaching 5.1 Teaching Experience 5.1.1 Teaching assistance 5.2 Students’ supervision 6. Work Experience
7. Honors and Awards 8. Certificates
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Profile Summary
Matteo Cristofaro is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, ranked 33 in the 2014 QS University Ranking “Top 50 Under 50”. From this University he earned a Master’s Degree in Management (Supervisor Prof. Gianpaolo Abatecola) with a specific focus on Consulting.
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Employment history
§ December, 2013 - present: Ph.D. candidate in Management, Tor Vergata University, Department of Business Government Philosophy Studies.
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Education and Degree
§ 08-2015: Statistical Methods for Social Research using SPSS, London Business School of Economics (LSE).
§ 11-2015: Decision Making School, Italian Ministry of Defence
§ 08-2014: Qualitative Research Methods, London Business School of Economics (LSE). § 04-2014/07-2014: British Council – Rome. Advanced English course.
§ 03-2014/05-2014: Business Simulations course on SAP Business ByDesign, provided by Reply InEssence.
§ 03-2013/07-2013: English Studio – London (03/2013 – 07/2013) Advanced English course.
§ 10-2011/07-2013: Master’s Degree in Management, Tor Vergata University. Supervisor: Prof. Gianpaolo Abatecola. Thesis: “Decision quality control in decision-making. The experience of Consorzio ELIS”. Final Evaluation: 110/110 cum laude (with honors).
§ 10-2008/10-2011: Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Magna Graecia University. Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Calabrò. Thesis: “Business performance evaluation in family business succession. The experience of the mass food retailer SIDIS”. Final Evaluation: 110/110 cum laude (with honors).
§ 09-2003/07-2008: High School Diploma, Scientific Lyceum (scientific studies, five-year programme), Luigi Siciliani (Catanzaro, Italy).
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Research
o Interests
§ Behavioral Strategy § Real Estate Management § Business Modeling
(Industries: Real Estate, Consulting, Gaming)
o Publications
4.2.1 Journal articles
• Cristofaro, M., Uli, V. (2015), Management in adattamento. Tra razionalità economica,
evoluzione ed imperfezione dei sistemi. Review. (forthcoming in Economia e Diritto del Terziario.
• Cristofaro, M. (2015), Il miglioramento qualitativo delle decisioni nelle organizzazioni
complesse. Il caso Consorzio ELIS, Sviluppo&Organizzazione, Vol. 267, Issue Nov/Dic, pp. 72-82.
• Abatecola, G., Cristofaro, M. (2015), Upper Echelons and Executive Profiles in the
Construction Value Chain. Evidence from Italy. (forthcoming in Project Management Journal).
4.2.2 Book Chapters
• G. Abatecola, M. Cristofaro (2015). Caratteristiche socio-demografiche e competenze
distintive nella governance dei player immobiliari in Italia. In: Cafferata, R. (eds.), Tendenze evolutive del management nel settore immobiliare: continuità e cambiamento, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 71-101.
4.2.3 Conference Presentations
• Cristofaro, M., (2015), Controlling the quality of decision making processes in complex
organizations. A qualitative research approach. EURAM, Warsaw (Poland), 17-20 June 2015, in Research methods and research practice track.
o Project
• 2014: “Yearly Management consulting industry's report in Italy”. A Tor Vergata University
and Assoconsult study. National Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tor Vergata University). Role: Team Member (Tor Vergata University Research Unit). Published in attachment with: Harvard Business Review Italia, September 2014.
o Service
4.4.1 Academic Memberships & Peer Review Activities
• 2014 – present: Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale Giovani – AIDEA Giovani. • 2015 – present: European Academy of Management (EURAM).
• 2015 – Reviewer for AIDEA Conference 2015, Session 7: “Il ruolo della strategia aziendale
nella creazione e nella distribuzione di valore”.
• 2015 – present: Società Italiana di Management (SIMA).
4.4.2 Other
• 2014-present: Teaching assistant for 3 editions of “SAP ByDesign Course” for graduate
students held at Tor Vergata University.
• 05-2014: SAP Business By Design Certificate.
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Teaching
o Teaching Experience
Guest Lectureships
Academic
Year Class name Level Role Hours/CTS* Language Course Name Topic Institution
2014/15 General Management Graduate Guest lecturer 72/12 (2 hours of lecturing) English Ms. Management
Business Model Innovation
Tor Vergata University
2014/15 International Management Graduate Guest lecturer 34/6 (4 hours of lecturing) Italian Ms. Management
Strategic decision-making processes in internationaliz ation; TTIP: pros and cons for Italian
firms
Tor Vergata University
2014/15 Service Management Graduate Guest lecturer 34/6 (2 hours of lecturing) Italian Ms. Service Management
Measures of service quality Tor Vergata University 2013/14 Managerial Decision Making
Graduate Guest lecturer 34/6 (10 hours of lecturing) Italian Ms. Management
Business analysis tools; Creativity; Negotiation Tor Vergata University 2013/14 2014/15 Entrepreneurshi p Graduate Guest lecturer 60/12 (16 hours
of lecturing) Italian Ms. Management
Business Modelling; New venutres funding. Tor Vergata University
07/2014 Marketing Graduate Guest lecturer 2 hours of lecturing English
BEST Tor Vergata (IT students association) Social Media Marketing Tor Vergata University – Faculty of Engineering 2014/2015 International Marketing Graduate Guest lecturer 60/12 (3 hours of lecturing) English Ms. Management Social Media Marketing Tor Vergata University 2014/2015 Organization & Management Graduate Guest lecturer 72/12 (12 hours of lecturing) English Bs. Management Creativity Strategy; Tor Vergata University
2015/2016 SAP ByDesign Graduate Guest lecturer 36/12 (3 hours of lecturing) English Ms. Management
Marketing to opportunity, quotes and orders Processes Tor Vergata University
5.1.1 Teaching assistance
The data below summarize different courses in which I have been involved as a course assistant at Rome “Tor Vergata” University.
Class Name Language Level Professor
Managerial Decision Making Italian Graduate Gianpaolo Abatecola
General Management Italian Undergraduate Roberto Cafferata
General Management
(Advanced) English Graduate
Corrado Cerruti
Entrepreneurship Italian Graduate Francesco Scafarto
International Management Italian Graduate Cosetta Pepe
SAP ByDesign English Graduate Corrado Cerruti
o Student’s supervision
The data below summarize the students supervised, at Tor Vergata University under the main supervision of Prof. Gianpaolo Abatecola and Prof. Paola Paniccia. The students are listed according to their graduation date.
No. Student Dissertation title Language Major1 Final
Evaluation Completed Current position 1 Martina Damia
Decision quality control in the frozen food industry: the experience of Surgital S.p.A.
Italian MDM 110/110 2013/2014 Surgitalia S.p.A.
2 Massimiliano Biaggi evidences from Parmalat Upper Echelons Theory: Italian MDM 106/110 2013/2014 Accountant
3 Dario Meloni internationalization choices: Decision quality control in the experience of Stelin s.r.l.
Italian MDM 110/110 cum laude 2013/2014 Accenture
4 Beatrice De Cecco
Decision quality control in the food industry: the experience of De cecco
Italian MDM 102/110 2013/2014 F.lli De Cecco Di Filippo Fara S. Martino S.p.A.
5 Ludovico Tesei
The influence of personalities on team composition activity. Evidences from the italian
consulting industry.
Italian MDM 110/110 cum laude 2013/2014 PwC
6 Colajacomo Lorenzo
Business modeling and decision-making in the application mobile industry.
An analysis on the Google Play Store.
Italian MDM 110/110 cum laude 2013/2014 KPMG
7 Simeone Rossetti
The influence of personalities on Not for profit organization. The experience
of Diocesi di Frascati.
Italian MDM 110/110 2013/2014 Trainee as chartered acoountant
8 Picarelli Eloisa Decision quality control in the sport industry. The experience of Excalibur.
Italian MDM 105/110 2013/2014 Trainee as chartered acoountant
9 Fabio Stella
The influence of religion on group decision-making: the
experience of Ceneri dell’India.
Italian MDM 110/110 cum laude 2013/2014 PwC
10 Flavia Del Duca
The value chain in the pharmaceutical industry. The experience of Novartis S.p.A.
Italian GM 105/110 2013/2014 Attending a Master’s degree
11 Francesco Piacentini
Quality control of internationalization decisions. The experience of
Atran S.p.A.
Italian MDM 108/110 2013/2014 New graduate
12 Francesco The influence of personalities Italian MDM 110/110 cum 2013/2014 Trainee as chartered
Ricciotti on dynamic decision-making processes. laude acoountant 13 Fabrizio De Luca Socio-demographic features, personalities, brain processes. An analysis on decision making affecting
factors.
Italian MDM 105/110 2013/2014 Trainee as chartered acoountant
14 Mirko De lumè
Crisi d’impresa. Fattori endogeni ed esogeni. Il caso
Sorgenia
Italian GM 102/110 2014/2015
Attending a Master’s degree
15 Flavio Buò public companies: il caso FC Azionariato popolare e Barcellona.
Italian GM 105/110 2014/2015 Master’s degree Attending a
16 Lambertino Simone
Il processo di internazionalizzazione delle imprese: razionalita’ limitata
e controllo di qualita’ delle decisioni. Il case study “Birra
del borgo srl”
Italian MDM 105/110 2014/2015 Store manager at Owlchips Srl
17 Pierluigi Amelia
Il potere negoziale nella contrattazione dei beni eterogenei: il caso L’Impero
degli Sposi.
Italian MDM 107/110 2014/2015 New graduate
18 Valentina Lisi Coalizioni nelle negoziazioni multilaterali. Italian MDM 108/110 2014/2015 New graduate
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Work experience
September 2013 - December 2013: Price Waterhouse&Coopers (PwC) Position: Risk Management Consultant
I worked in the Systems and Process Assurance line of service of PwC and as a team member of some projects I gained experiences in helping major organizations in understanding and managing the risks associated with the financial reporting including related business processes and IT processes.
Key duties and responsabilities included:
§ Executing internal auditing controls by gathering, documenting and analyzing information and evidence of the existence of risks and the effectiveness of processes and IT systems. Clients served: Compagnia Surgelati Italiana (Frozen Food); Codere Italia (Gaming).
Semptember 2011 - September 2013: Accounting private office “Studio Antonini” Position: Accounting assistant – trainee.
Achievements
- Assistant in drawing up balance sheets and budget forecasts, ensuring financial control; - Assistant in financial analysis and managerial accounting;
- Assistant auditor for office’s clients.
September 2012 - March 2013: CONSEL Position: Junior Business Analyst.
As part of a junior consulting team:
- I carried out business analysis and business modeling on a new technological product of WIND S.p.A. created within the european project CHOReOS;
- I collaborated in the creation of an excel evaluation sheet to evaluate new business ideas, ensuring a qualitative and quantitative evaluations.
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Honors and Awards
§ 2013/2016: Tor Vergata University, PhD. in Business Management&Accounting. 3-year Full Scholarship.
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Certificates
§ 10-2014/10-2016: IELTS test. Score: 6.5 - Good user. British Council – Rome.
