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Leonardo Rizzo

Teaching

I teach managers and students how networks, data and technology shape the way organizations work. Most of my teaching is at SDA Bocconi and Bocconi University, in executive education and degree programmes.

Current teaching

Social networks in organizations

SDA Bocconi School of Management

How informal networks of advice, collaboration and trust shape performance, careers and change — and how managers can read and work with them. Sessions combine network concepts with organizational network analysis of real teams.

People management and organization design

SDA Bocconi School of Management

Designing structures, roles and coordination mechanisms, and managing the people who work within them.

AI in organizations

SDA Bocconi School of Management

What generative AI changes in how people collaborate and how work is organized, with evidence from field data on AI adoption.

Principles of Business Analytics

Bocconi University, MSc in International Management, course 20946, 2022–

Turning business problems into decision and optimisation models, and using regression to support decisions with data.

Earlier teaching and guest lectures

AI techniques in taxation

Guest lecturer, Bocconi University, Workshop, course 10774, 2024, 2026

How machine learning and text analysis can be applied to tax data and tax documents.

Portfolio management and computational finance using Python

Guest lecturer, University of Oxford, 2024

Fundamental ideas in network science

Teaching assistant, Central European University, DNDS6000, PhD in Network Science, 2021

Network visualization with Gephi

Lecturer, Central European University, Workshop, 2021