Francesco Rattalino is Executive Vice-President and Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Experience of ESCP Business School. Previously he served as Dean of the Turin Campus for close to ten years. During his tenure, the Turin Campus experienced a remarkable growth of almost six times in terms of both student and faculty numbers. As a testament to its quality and success, the Campus earned accreditation from the Italian Minister of Education University and Research as a Foreign University. In 2024, the Campus will relocate to a state-of-the-art facility spanning over 7,000 square meters, centrally located in Turin's city centre.

His published research focuses on strategy execution, sustainability, family business and internationalisation theory. Notably, his research explores the survival and internationalization strategies employed by family firms over long periods of time.

Rattalino is in the steering committee of the NEWLEAD (Innovative Leadership and Change Management in Higher Education) consortium, an Erasmus+ funded initiative aimed at equipping university leaders to successfully steer complex institutional transformation agendas.

Professor Rattalino completed his MSc cum laude and PhD in Business Administration at the University of Turin. Additionally, he is an alumnus of the GLOCOLL Program at Harvard Business School.
Before entering academia, he gained valuable experience working for multinational companies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy. Professor Rattalino also actively pursued entrepreneurship, developing and investing in several start-ups.

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Chapters

2022

PUCCIARELLI, F., F. VENUTI, F. RATTALINO

Is higher education hybrid-ready or not? An open call for business schools’ ongoing dual transformation

In: The Future of Business Schools, Rico J. Baldegger, Ayman El Tarabishy, David B. Audretsch, Dafna Kariv, Katia Passerini, Wee-Liang Tan Edward Elgar, 246-260

Chapters

2022

VENUTI, F., F. PUCCIARELLI, F. RATTALINO

The Importance of the International and Social Dimensions of Learning in the Post-COVID Higher Education: The Case of ESCP Business School

In: Borderlands: The Internationalisation of Higher Education Teaching Practices, Lock, D., Caputo, A., Hack-Polay, D., Igwe, P. Springer, 221-235

Academic Articles

2021

KANO, L., L. CIRAVEGNA, F. RATTALINO

The family as a platform for FSA development: Enriching new internalization theory with insights from family firm research

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES, 52 (1), 148–160 pp.

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

LANTERI, A., F. RATTALINO

Bitcoin must become more sustainable, for its own good (as well as the planet’s)

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-38-EN

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Media

2021

LANTERI, A., F. RATTALINO

Bitcoin must become more sustainable, for its own good (as well as the planet’s)

MIT Technology Review, Arabia

Academic Articles

2020

CIRAVEGNA, L., L. KANO, F. RATTALINO, A. VERBEKE

Corporate Diplomacy and Family Firm Longevity

ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, 44(1), 109-133

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

SYDOW, A., F. RATTALINO

Two sides of the same coin: Why entrepreneurs can transform the crisis into business opportunities to create more impactful and long-lasting ventures

ESCP Impact Papers, 2020-37-EN

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Conference Proceedings

2019

CANOVI, M., F. RATTALINO, L. CIRAVEGNA

Identity Activation: How Family Owners’ Social and Personal Identities shape Corporate Entrepreneurship in Family Firms

International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA)

Conference Proceedings

2019

CANOVI, M., F. RATTALINO, L. CIRAVEGNA

How Family Owners’ Social and Personal Identities shape Corporate Entrepreneurship in Family Firms

Academy of Management (AOM)

Conference Proceedings

2019

CIRAVEGNA, L., F. RATTALINO, L. KANO

The Smiling Curve of Value Creation in Family MNEs: The Impact of Bifurcation Bias

Academy of International Business (AIB)