dr. S. (Stefano ) Tasselli

Stefano Tasselli is an Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He is the Director of the Erasmus Centre for Innovation (ECI). He holds a PhD from the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. His educational background also includes a Diploma with full grades and honorable mention in Classics, a bachelor degree cum laude in Economics and Management and a Master of Science cum laude in Management from Bocconi University, and a Master of Philosophy with distinction in Innovation, Strategy and Organisation from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has specialized his education with an executive program at the Harvard Business School. His previous professional experience includes consulting in McKinsey and Company. His previous academic experience includes research and teaching activities at the University of Cambridge, Bocconi University and the Swiss National Found. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian General Embassy in the Netherlands. Among the empirical settings of interest for his research, the health care industry, and incubators/ accelerators for new entrepreneurial opportunities.

His research and teaching focus is on the interplay between psychological and relational antecedents of organizational functioning, including the analysis of the psychological micro-foundations (personality, motivation, and cognition) of organizational social networks; social networks, knowledge transfer and innovation; and organizational theory. He has developed classes on 'Social Networks and Leadership' in the full-time MBA. He is currently teaching post-graduate and executive modules on ‘Social Networks for Innovation’ and a foundational post-graduate course on the 'Organization of Innovation.’ He has taught the 'New Business Development' post-graduate module in collaboration with the Erasmus Center for Entrepreneurship and several of the most prominent Dutch companies, including ING, KLM, Philips and Eneco. He has taught a module in the successful RSM MOOC on Innovation Management in Coursera.

Dr Tasselli has been invited for more than fifty research seminars and presentations, and has received distinguished recognitions from academic conferences and research institutions. These recognitions include the Best Paper Award at the HCM division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2013, in Orlando, FL), the Outstanding PhD report Award from the Judge Business School (2011), the Best Paper Award at the CORE doctoral Conference in Cambridge (2013), two consecutive Best Paper Awards at the conference of the Italian Association for Management in health care (AIES, 2013 in Trento and 2014 in Venice), the Innovative Teaching Award at RSM (2016), the ABCD Award of the OMT division of the Academy of Management (2017, in Atlanta, GA), the nomination for the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management (2019) and the victory of the Global Best Paper Award at the HCM division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2019, in Boston, MA). He has received the honor of Life Membership from both Wolfson College and Girton College of the University of Cambridge. In 2017, he was selected by Wolfson College as the Alumnus of the month. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, he has been recognized as a high performing member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). In 2018, he has been awarded by Poets and Quants as one of the '40 World's Best Business Professors under 40.' In 2018, he was also awarded by ASFOR (Italian Society for Management Education) as the 'Best Italian Business Professor under 40.' 

His research has been published, among the other journals, in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Social Networks and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Dr Tasselli also wrote and talked of his research in venues of interest for business practitioners, including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, LSE Business Review, Academy of Management Insights, RSM Discovery, and Ideas for Leaders. His research activity has also been covered extensively by press and media, including interviews in Business News Radio, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.