ALTIS, founded in 2005, is one of the seven Postgraduate Schools of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. By 2015 the postgraduate school intends to become the principal European center for the development of high social impact entrepreneurship in Africa, India and Latin America, serving local development and the internationalization of Italian companies.

1. ALTIS profile
http://altis.unicatt.it/en/altis_postgraduate_school_business_society
Milan, 10th July 2011
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2. Index
1. An Original Identy
2. Breakdown by Divisions
3. Activities in Brief
4. A Look at the Divisions
5. ALTIS For Enterprises
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3. Origin & Mission
ALTIS, founded in 2005, is one of the seven Postgraduate Schools
of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
RESEARCH EDUCATION
PROJECTS
Entrepreneurship and Management
for a sustainable development
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4. Vision
ALTIS was created to be the reference point in Italy
for entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs and managers
seeking to achieve simultaneously
high economic and socio-environmental performance.
By 2015 the postgraduate school intends to become
the principal European center
for the development of high social impact entrepreneurship
in Africa, India and Latin America,
serving local development
and the internationalization of Italian companies.
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5. Win-win approach
“Every single social and global
issue of our day is a business
opportunity in disguise.”
Peter Drucker
“If love is wise, it can find ways of working in accordance with
provident and just expediency.”
Caritas in Veritate, n. 65
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6. ALTIS, a bridge between…
Research /
Action
Education
University Business
Socio-
Economic
environmental
performance
performance
North South of the world
Profit Non Profit
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7. Index
1. An Original Identy
2. Breakdown by Divisions
3. Activities in Brief
4. A Look at the Divisions
5. ALTIS for Enterprises
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8. The Eight Divisions of ALTIS
Finance & Globalization &
Development New Markets
Corporate Welfare & SMEs &
Social Innovation CSR & Industrial Districts
Sustainability
Public Social
Management Entrepreneurship
Non Profit
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9. Organization Chart
Director
MOLTENI
Executive Director
CINQUE
ALTIS AFRICA ALTIS INDIA ALTIS PERU
Staff GEORGE VARMA PORTUGAL
CSR & Corporate Social SMEs & Public Globalization
Non-Pprofit Finance &
Sustainability Welfare & entrepreneur- Districts Management & New Markets
Development
Social ship
Innovation
GRUMO ORIANI
MOLTENI GUIDOTTI ANTOLDI ZUFFADA MORAMARCO
MARSEGUERRA
RESEARCH
EDUCATION
PROJECTS
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10. Index
1. An Original Identy
2. Breakdown by Divisions
3. Activities in Brief
4. A Look at the Divisions
5. ALTIS for Enterprises
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11. International alliances for research projects
ALTIS is engaged in research and collaborative projects
with leading universities around the world.
USA EUROPA
• Boston College (Boston) • University of Bath (UK)
• Miami University (Ohio) • Cranfield University (UK)
• HAAS School of Business, • University of Warwick (UK)
University of Berkeley (California) • Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
• Mendoza College of Business, • Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany)
University of Notre Dame (South Bend)
CINA
• Zhejiang University
(Hangzhou)
LATIN AMERICA
• PUC – Pontifícia Universidade Católica
de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
• Fundação Dom Cabral (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
• UCSS (Lima, Peru)
INDIA
AFRICA
• LIBA (Chennai)
• Uganda Martyrs University (Nkozi, Uganda)
• XIMB (Bhubaneswar)
• Tangaza College (Nairobi, Kenya)
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12. Three formulas for the Master's Programs
International • Full time
• Taught in English
MBA • For Italian and foreign students interested in an international career
• Faculty excellence
• An exceptional price/quality ratio designed to attract students from developing
countries
• Diploma: MBA
Executive • Mixed approach: Taught classes + e-learning
• Taught in Italian
Master • For entrepreneurs and managers
• Strong practical orientation
• Mixed Faculty: academics + professionals
• Diploma: Master's degree
Master • Master’s program carried out abroad
Abroad • In partnership with leading local institutions
• Taught in the local language
• International faculty: ALTIS + local teaching staff
• Aims and contents consistent with the ALTIS mission
• Internationality and excellence available with affordable tuition fees
• Where appropriate, mixed approach: taught classes + e-learning
• Diploma: Double degree
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13. Our Masters’ Programs
PARTICIPANT PROFILE VENUE AS OF FAC.
INTERNATIONAL MBA
• Global Business and - Italian and foreign BA students MILAN 2007 MI
Sustainability with work experience
EXECUTIVE MASTER'S
• SMEs and competitiveness - Italian SME entrepreneurs MILAN 2006 MI-PC
- Their children and/or BERGAMO 2011 MI-PC
collaborators
• Management and innovation - Public sector managers and MILAN 2011 PC
in the public administration officials
• Non Profit Management - Managers, employees and MILAN 2012 MI
collaborators
- Recent graduates (BA)
MASTER'S ABROAD
• Master’s in Local - Civil servants in Peru LIMA 2009 PC
Development
• MBA Social Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurs and potential NAIROBI 2011 MI
and Management entrepreneurs in Africa
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14. MBA Social Entrepreneurship and Management (Kenia)
• Nairobi, Kenya – Tangaza College, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
• Aim: train new entrepreneurs, from both profit and non-profit enterprises, to become
agents of socio-economic change in the Sub-Saharan African countries.
• Partner (design, teaching staff and internship): UCSC-ALTIS + Tangaza +
LIBA(India).
• Students enrolled at the UCSC (Master’s level), with possibility of double degree.
• Period: January – December; full-time, English language (1st edition in progress)
• Approximately 100 applicants 38 participants:
 35 from14 African countries + 3 Italians (new frontier of international
cooperation);
 16 women and 22 men.
• Selection is made according to CV + Business summary.
• Industries of business summaries: Agribusiness 10, Production/Commerce 10,
Education/Research 8, Energy/water 6, Microfinance 2, Health 2.
• Teaching methods: on-site, video conferencing, e-learning.
• Financing: CEI + Vodafone Foundation + students fees
• At completion: presentation to Social Venture Capital Funds.
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15. Master in Public Governance and Management (Perù)
• Lima, Peru – Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae.
• Aim: train managers and officials of the central, regional and local administrations of
Peru, in order to contribute to the process of administrative decentralization and
modernization of the public sector.
• Essence: a project of action/research designed to transfer good practices with
regard to local development and subsidiarity, commissioned by the Ministry of
Industry of Peru and financed by the Lombardy Region.
• Double degree: first-level university master’s degree from UCSC + Maestría en
Administración Pública from the Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae in Lima
(Peru).
• Duration: one year.
• Part-time, Spanish-language.
• Participant profile: civil servants and managers of central, regional and local
administrations.
• 32 participants
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16. Euro-Mediterranean School
• The Euro-Mediterranean School is promoted by Promos, a foundation for the development
of international activities, and ALTIS. 5th edition 2010-2011.
• Aim: train new entrepreneurs from the Middle East/North Africa region and the Balkans in
order to develop new entrepreneurial activities within their own countries and Italy.
• The program takes place in two phases.
• Phase 1:
‒ On-line training for 1.5 months;
‒ Participants: 100 from the Middle East/North African region and the Balkans, who will
remain in their own countries continuing their working activities;
‒ Contents: development of business plans and internationalization strategies;
‒ Output: business plans to be submitted to the Milan Jury.
• Phase 2:
‒ The 20 best students, based on the quality of their business plans, will be invited to
Italy;
‒ One month full-time (February-March), in English language;
‒ Lessons, meetings with business experts and representatives of the institutions;
‒ Intense networking activities in Milan and other cities with the support of a number of
Chambers of Commerce and entrepreneurial associations (Genoa, Naples, Calabria
Region, Salerno, Varese).
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17. Main Projects in Italia
• The Italian association of sustainability professionals.
• Professionals involved in enterprises, entrepreneurial foundations,
consulting companies, public administration, non-profit entities.
• Mission: promote the professions and professionalism of CSR
managers.
• Workshops, research, conferences, knowledge centers.
• Strong international linkages.
• Virtual window that helps non-profit organizations to locate financial,
human and material resources within enterprises and grant-making
institutions.
• Consultancy for carrying out bilateral and trilateral partnerships (non-
profit entities, enterprises, public administration) for social purposes.
• Social cohesion projects.
• ALTIS plays an important role in the Scientific Committee of the
Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano (FWA).
• FWA offers support to individuals working in the Commune of Milan, and to
their respective nuclear families, who find themselves in temporary
conditions of distress.
• The FWA’s endowment Fund offers loans to individuals and for start-ups of
micro-entrepreneurial initiatives.
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18. National and International Awards
• Italian Round of an international competition to reward the best business plans with a strong
social value.
• Promoted by the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.
• In partnership with leading international business schools: Columbia Business School (New
York), London Business School, Indian School of Business, ESSEC Business School.
• Italian jury consisting of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, representatives of banks and academics.
• European semifinals in London, finals in California.
• With the participation of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and the Associazione San Michele Valore
d’Impresa.
• A competition to highlight the best work/family reconciliation
programs in enterprises, public administrations and non-profit
entities.
• The reference event in Italy promoted by the Lombardy Region
and ASAG.
• Jury made up of the best Italian reconciliation experts.
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19. Activities in rapidly-developing and emerging countries
INDIA
Generali Millennium
Development of micro-
insurance in India in
partnership with the
Generali Group
Country Project
Activities for entrepreneur
development with FEM,
PERU financed by the Cariplo
Foundation
Master Desarrollo
Master’s for the
decentralization of the
Dalit Women
Public Administration, Entrepreneurs
aimed at senior officials International research on new
activities developed by women
Master’s in Teaching belonging to the poorest segment
of the population
Two-year Master’s to
provide advanced
BACINO DEL
qualifications for KENYA
MEDITERRANEO UGANDA
management teachers at
the university level Euro-Mediterranean School Microcredit in Kampala MBA Social
Distance-training for 100 students Microcredit projects carried out Entrepreneurship &
CSR projects from the Mediterranean Basin, with in collaboration with the Spe Management
Corporate Social
a one-month residence in Milan for
Salvi Foundation and with the Master’s for development of
Responsibility projects participation of the Banca social entrepreneurs in Sub-
with leading Peruvian the top 20 students Popolare di Vicenza Saharan Africa
companies
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20. Index
1. An Original Identy
2. Breakdown by Divisions
3. Activities in Brief
4. A Look at the Divisions
5. ALTIS for Enterprises
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21. CSR and Sustainability Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Mario Molteni
The Division is the reference point in Italy for the development of CSR/sustainability policies conceived as
an essential element of a business strategy designed to combine economic success with a high level of
social and environmental performance.
Education
Research • Frontiers of CSR management
• Skills of CSR managers • CSR Modules in the Masters
• Responsible Supply Chain Management • Series of workshops on sustainability
• From Social Accountability to Integrated Report
• Stakeholder Engagement Projects
• Responsible HR Management • CSR Manager Network Italia
• Corporate Foundations • Policies and processes of responsible supply
chain management
• Responsible Consumers
• Preparation of sustainability report
• Development of sustainability policies for
businesses
• Collaboration with Expo 2015
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22. Corporate Welfare and Social Innovation Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Giovanni Marseguerra
The Division studies the role of businesses in the promotion of human development (economic, social and
intergenerational) with reference both to the overall change in the social system and to the development of
individuals who work and interact in it.
Research
• Social policies towards dependents Projects
• Innovative forms of work/life reconciliation • Work/Family Prize
• Conditions and values favoring social • Development of corporate welfare system in leading
innovation Italian companies
• Interaction between human and social capital • Monitoring systems of reconciliation requirements of
co-workers and of the company’s implementation
ability
• Monitoring system for the effectiveness of
reconciliation initiatives
Education • Network of “Work-life balance companies”
• Course on Work/Family Reconciliation • Optimization of costs for corporate welfare (gap
analysis, needs analysis, consultancy on tax and
• Module on CSR Profession
social security reductions, etc.)
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23. SME and Industrial Districts Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Fabio Antoldi
The Division is concerned with the evolutionary processes of small and medium enterprises (SMEs),
with support to entrepreneurs, and with development of networks and clusters of SMEs in both Italy and
developing countries. This in the belief that small-scale entrepreneurship, notably when organized in
networks, can represent a sustainable manner of promoting both the international competitiveness of
regions and the development of populations.
Research
• CSR practices adopted by SMEs in the Education
industrial districts of the Lombardy Region • Executive Master’s SME and Competitiveness
• Comparative research on the formation and • Specialized course on governance systems in
functioning of SME networks in a number of Italian industrial districts
industrial districts in Italy, Peru, China and India
• “Value to the firm”: seminars for training small-
• Observatory of SMEs in Milan scale entrepreneurs member of Confapi Milano
Projects • Courses on management of Italian industrial
districts given in Mexico (Guadalajara) and
• Analysis of management systems of SME export
Brazil (Curitiba)
consortia promoted by UNIDO in Peru, Uruguay,
Morocco and Tunisia • Course “Strategic management of SMEs” for
• Analysis of the potential for economic American university students in Milan (twice per
development of an Argentine province, with annum)
particular attention focused on local SMEs • Summer school “Strategic management of
• Analysis of international benchmarking in five SMEs, family businesses and industrial clusters”
industrial districts (APLs) in the state of Bahia, for foreign students
Brazil
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24. Social Entrepreneurship Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Stefano Guidotti
The Division is dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship in the emerging and developing countries,
with particular attention to Africa, India and Latin America. The Division seeks to promote the creation of
new companies – both profit and non-profit – having a strong social and environmental impact.
Education
• MBA Social Entrepreneurship and Management
Research in Kenia
• Scalability of social-entrepreneurship projects • Social Entrepreneurship module within MBA
• Social entrepreneurship and open innovation Global Business and Sustainability
• Female entrepreneurship among the Dalits in • Social Entrepreneurship Workshop in East
India Africa, India and America Latina (Peru & Brasil)
• Social entrepreneurship in rural areas in Africa
Projects
• Models of social entrepreneurship linked to
NGOs • Generali Millennium (India)
• Social businesses based on IT • FEM Project, Cariplo Foundation
• Venture capital and social enterprises • Global Social Venture Competition
• Collaboration with I-LAB: scalable projects in the
developing world
• Platform for immigrant entrepreneurs in Milan
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25. Non profit Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Marco Grumo
The Division has been set up as a place of research and investigation of innovative management
techniques for non-profit organizations: associations, foundations, social cooperatives, voluntary
organizations, associations for social advancement, social enterprises, ONLUS (non-lucrative social
organizations), religious entities and related organizations.
Research Education
• Observatory of Social Report of non-profit • Project managers in non-profit organizations and
organizations social businesses
• Reintegration of detainees into the labor force • Administration, accounting and reporting for non-
profit organizations
• Accountability of non-profit organizations
• Summer School in marketing and development of
• Innovative forms of financing for non-profit
non-profit organizations
organizations
• Summer School in management of non-profit
organizations “Drafting the Business Plan”
Projects • Innovative management, administration and
• Social Report Guidelines for non-profit development:
organizations  for Superiors and Councils members of religious
• Social Responsibility of the Enterprise: work, institutions in Rome and Milan
prison, enterprise  for the new leadership of Catholic schools
• Drafting of the Social Report for a number of  for the heads of parochial nursery schools
entities (San Francisco Opera, Educatt, • Executive training course for religious institutions in
Scuola Aurora, etc.) innovative management and development
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26. Public Management Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Elena Zuffada
The Division focuses on management themes of particular importance and timeliness for dealing with the
great challenges facing the public sector as a whole, working in close contact with institutions.
Education
• First-level university master’s degree in Public
Government and Management – in partnership
Research
with UCSS Lima (Peru)
• Governance structures and instruments for the • Executive Master MIPA (second-level Master’s
public-private partnership degree) in Management and Innovation of the
Public Administration
• Accountability, performance evaluation and
reward structure Projects
• Intermuncipal cooperation • Local development and subsidiarity: transfer of
• Subsidiarity, participation and stakeholder best practices (Peru)
involvement: towards new governance models • Tools for social accountability of public enterprises
(social and sustainability reports)
• Laboratory for administrative simplification to
enhance SME competitiveness
• Organizational models and tools for innovation
and quality of public services
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27. Finance and Development Division
AIMS of the DIVISION Director: Marco Oriani
The Division focuses on the study and analysis of the instruments used by financial intermediaries to
support new entrepreneurial initiatives and/or the development of those already existing, in Italy and
throughout the world.
Education
• Courses on the impact of the financial crisis on
individuals and businesses
Research • Finance modules in the ALTIS master’s
• Strategies and policies of “responsible lending” programs
in the Italian banking system • Real estate courses
• Venture capital in the emerging markets • Courses on financial planning
• Microcredit and financial inclusion
Projects
• Microcredit in Uganda
• Asset management and conflicts with clients
• Financial behavior in private banking
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28. Globalization and New Markets Division
Aims of the Division Director: Vita Moramarco
The Division seeks to contribute to the development of Italian businesses in the major emerging markets,
training Italian and foreign managers according to the specific requirements of business clients. In addition
it carries on a systematic reflection concerning regional competitiveness and labor market trends
Education
Research
• MBA Global Business and Sustainability
• Competitiveness and globalization
• Euro-Mediterranean School
• Competitiveness and investment in human
capital
• Policies for growth in development countries and Projects
field studies • Labor market observatory: focusing on the
dynamics of employment in the Lombardy
Region with particular reference to:
• Microbusinesses
• Development Cooperation and non-profit
• Districts and metadistricts
• Analysis of career opportunities for new
graduates
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29. Index
1. An Original Identy
2. Breakdown by Divisions
3. Activities in Brief
4. A Look at the Divisions
5. ALTIS for Enterprises
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30. ALTIS for enterprises: value proposition
ALTIS for Enterprises
makes available to enterprises (profit, non-profit, public and private)
its wealth of skills and international connections developed
in the fields of research, education and field work.
We support our clients in the definition and execution of business
strategies that take into account sustainability,
in order to promote the success of the company and to contribute to
improving quality of life for society as a whole.
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31. Interventions at the enterprise level
ALTIS for Enterprises
carries out projects in the field and ad hoc training programs
on typical subjects of postgraduate schools:
• CSR and sustainability policies and practices
• Sustainability report according to GRI standards
• Compliance with ISO 26000
• Monitoring chain of production and “cluster development” interventions
• Work/family reconciliation policies and corporate welfare
• Support to new initiatives of internationalization in developing countries
• Strategic and business plans
• Development, internationalization and generational transition plans for SMEs
• Market analysis with particular focus on emerging countries
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32. The cycle of interventions in terms of sustainability
• Analysis of CSR initiatives in operation, points of weakness,
possibilities for improvement
• Definition of scenarios, strategy and an action plan for the CSR
• Development of a “dashboard” for top management on socio-
environmental performance
• Compliance with ISO 26000 • Training projects
• Development and implementation of a code of ethics • Development of systems to
measure socio-environmental
Strategy performance
• Incentive systems linked to
Formulation of a strategic plan sustainability
on the perspectives of the
Accountability CSR and sustainability Culture
Measuring??, reporting and Development of a CSR
communicating CSR and and sustainability
sustainability initiatives corporate culture
Functional Projects
• Preparation of a sustainability Implementation of CSR and
balance sheet (or report)?? sustainability systems,
• Supporting the definition of an programs and practices
Internet site dedicated to
sustainability
• Relations with rating agencies and
• Production (e.g., reduction of pollution emissions)
fund managers
• Supply (e.g., definition of socio-environmental criteria for purchasing)
• Human resources (e.g., development of work/family reconciliation
procedures)
• Finance (e.g., definition of responsible investment policies)
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