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most important business schools, whose work and around 140 leading business schools accredited
international network promote excellence and in- by EFMD.
novation in executive training programmes. MIP is Since first joining the Financial Times’ rankings
also member of ACE, the Alliance of Chinese and of best European Business Schools in 2009, the
European Business Schools. School of Management received confirmation,
This Alliance was founded on May, 2013 in Angers, in 2014, of the quality of its educational offer, by
France, with a group of 20 universities and colleges continuously improving and reaching the 38th pla-
being its founding members, and the alliance is un- ce. Five programmes, three of which are Master
der the patronage of EFMD. courses, are included in the FT list:
Within the framework of ACE, seven members (MIP, • Executive MBA;
Beijing Jiaotong, PolyU, UCAS, SHUFE, SWUFE • Full-Time MBA;
and XIAMEN University) have made a very effecti- • Master of Science in Management Enginee-
ve use of their Sino-European base to launch and
launched a new Master programme - Master ACE. ring;
• Customised Executive Programmes for busi-
MIP’S Executive MBA was the first Italian
Executive MBA to have been awarded the nesses;
• Open Executive Programmes for managers
ASFOR prestigious recognition
and professionals.
MIP is certified ISO 9001_2008 Sector EA:37 for its
financed training projects (certificate no IT03/0772). MIP ranks 38th in the Financial Times’
In addition, in order to ensure that its operations are 2014 ranking of best European Business
managed in an increasingly efficient and transpa-
rent manner, MIP implemented an Organisational Schools
and Management Model, in accordance with Legi-
slative Decree no. 231 of 8 June 2001 (Model 231). In 2015, for the fifth year running, the Financial Ti-
In 2007, the School of Management first achieved mes’ Executive Education Custom Rankings has
the prestigious EQUIS accreditation (European listed the School among the top 85 customised
Quality Improvement System), joining a circle of executive education programmes recognised by
EFMD worldwide. These are programmes desig-
ned by business schools jointly with client compa-
nies for their managers and employees with high

Gianluca Spina Association

The “Gianluca Spina Association”, founded in April 2015, came out of an idea of a group of
colleagues and friends of Gianluca Spina, President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano,
who sadly died prematurely on 21 February 2015.
The loss of Gianluca has left a great hole in our hearts, and all of us at MIP and the De-
partment of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering are now working on the
projects that we started together, and which represent some of the development lines for the
School of Management for the next few years. We think that the best way to remember him

is to do something really big that leaves a significant impres-
sion on the work of education and research in Management
and can immediately be traced back to Gianluca.
The scope of the Association is fund-raising (through com-
panies, bodies, individuals) to finance initiatives that promote
training and research in Management, with particular empha-
sis on the topics dearest to Gianluca Spina.
These are the main projects of the Association:
• crowdfunding aimed at Alumni and friends;
• named chairs/teaching positions for international profes-
sors;
• graduation and Doctoral prizes;
• scholarships for MIP training courses;
• cultural initiatives.

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