Italy

The course focuses on the new product development process as a complex inter-functional management topic, which requires strategic initiative, aligned organizational solutions and appropriate supporting methodologies. Collaborative innovation is presented in order to discuss the potentialities of the involvement of external players in the innovation process, also thanks to the opportunities offered by internet-based technologies. Despite the increasing relevance of innovation strategies and new product development, few companies seem to have mastered their ability to identify, create, and exploit opportunities for innovation on a systematic basis. Crafting and delivering a new product is not an easy and intuitive process, but the result of a set of structured and organized practices. This course explores these practices and exploits the tools and techniques that can be used to this purpose. The New Product Development and Open Innovation course is organized in two main parts. The first provides a set of integrated frameworks and tools to effectively design and manage the strategies, processes, and techniques for innovation. It provides the conceptual tools to understand the nature and characteristics of different types of innovation, as well as practical insights on how to design and manage a new product development process. The second part of the course is focused on how digital environments can help companies to open their boundaries and pursue processes of open and collaborative innovation, involving several external partners in their new product development activities. Special attention is paid to the role of users in enhancing innovation and to ad-hoc mechanisms supporting their active involvement, among which user communities, virtual knowledge brokers, and Open Source Systems.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course addresses recent topics in the field of Global Health. Specific topics critical assessment of recent health care reforms in LMICs; efforts to extend coverage of health care and improve universal coverage; issues in financing schemes of health care in LMIC; definition of healthcare policy priorities and the assessment of economic burden of disease in LMICs; the role of NGOs and multilateral institutions; key policy interventions on prevention, workforce planning, and capacity building. The course examines global health issues from the standpoint of health policy and systems. It aims to provide an overview of key global health policies and an introduction to the main challenges, issues, and solutions in global health. The course covers the following topics: global health trends and estimates of health indicators; global health policy landscape; health systems approaches to global health challenges; global governance and health; global health financing architecture; financing health systems and universal health coverage; and evidence for global health policies. The course includes lectures, case studies, group discussions and presentations.

This course examines the biological, psychological, and environmental bases of human pathological behavior and the main methods for psychiatric assessment. The course reviews psychiatric diseases in adulthood and adolescence, as described in recognized diagnostic systems, such as DSM and ICD. Course topics also include diagnostic methods; diagnostic instruments including neuroimaging techniques (TAC, RMN, SPET E PET), neuroendocrinology, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology; treatments, including drugs, psychotherapy, remediation techniques, prevention, and interventions; psychopharmacology; differential diagnosis; and neuropsychological and structural/functional neuroimaging correlates of psychiatric diseases. The course explores the etiopathogenesis, clinical and prognostic features, epidemiology, prevention, pathophysiology and neuropsychological, and neuroimaging correlates, biological, and psychotherapic treatments of the main psychiatric diseases: delirium and dementia, alcohol and substance abuse/dependence and correlated diseases, schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, dissociative disorders, somatoform disorders, suicidal behavior, and eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, personality disorders.

At the end of the course students can manage strategic issues at the business level. Business definition, critical factor of success, competitive analysis, internal resources, and strategic positions are discussed to define strategy in markets that can have different degrees of maturity and technology innovation. The course discusses topics including the definition of business models, the story of business strategy, goals and performance, the competitive environment, beyond industries, internal analysis, business strategy and competitive advantage, competitive dynamics, growth strategies, strategic alliances, innovative strategies, and strategy and social values. The course employs different teaching methods including lectures, team-based exercises, and case discussions.

This course provides students with a sound basis for communicating effectively and accurately in oral and written Italian. This course covers basic Italian grammar and syntax including present, past, future, imperative, and conditional tenses. Students are able to use direct, indirect, and reflexive pronouns in addition to comparatives and superlatives. Authentic materials (songs, videos, advertisements, and film clips) are used in a communicative-based approach, and emphasis is placed on the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students participate in several sessions of language exchange with Italian university students, and field trips take them outside the classroom to engage with the city and Romans to reinforce the grammatical skills learned in class. The course is conducted entirely in Italian.

This course examines how genetics translate into normal and pathological behaviors. The course discusses topics including basic concepts of genetics and heritability; how the interplay between genes and environment can influence behavior; behavioral implications of some of the main genetic and chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and fragile X; and genetical underpinnings of some behavioral traits in the normal and pathological field. Students are required to have knowledge concerning the basics of biology and genetics as a prerequisite.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course discusses the conceptual grounds of the Universal claim in Roman culture, which are connected to political-military elements as well as to cultural and juridical patterns. The course examines elements of continuity and change in representations and auto-representations of the roman universal cosmic order within historiographical debate and will be able to critically assess the relevance of the theme in the actual organizational and political patterns. Students learn to apply a comparative approach to ancient sources and connect the roman idea of a Universal empire with other contemporary Universal empires, like e.g. Alexander the Great's empire or the Chinese Han dynasty’s Empire, as well as a diachronic approach, by considering how the notion of universal imperial rule has shaped the idea of international order after the end of Antiquity, from the Middle Ages to the present days. The course explores the reception of the historical experience of ancient Rome as a universal model, examining some aspects in which the influence of this historical experience was particularly significant.