Michael Spence in the faculty of SDA Bocconi - Part 1

21/04/2011 - Growth, Develepment and Structural Change in the Global Economy, Michael Spence. The international faculty of SDA Bocconi school of management has been further enriched with the arrival of Michael Spence, Nobel prize winner for economics in 2001. For the coming years Spence will be protagonist in the classroom of the MBA full-time program. In the current edition Spence taught the course in 'Growth in the emerging economies.'

Nobel prize winner for economics in 2001, together with George Akerlof and Joseph Stiglitz for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information, Spence is professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at theGraduate School of Business of Stanford University. Spence is also President of the Commission on Growth and Development, an international policy group dedicated to promoting sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.

The presence of Spence further strengthens the international prestige of SDA's MBA, which at the beginning of the year entered the European top ten in the Financial Times ranking. The MBA faculty is composed of more than one quarter international professors.

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Prof Spence was also Dean of the Faculty at Harvard for six years in addition to being Stanford Business School Dean for 9 years. Congratulations to Bocconi for growing to such an international stature.