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The Management Consulting Club – Club run by 2009 MBA Students SDA Bocconi School of Business

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Management Consulting Club Event: The CFO Roundtable

May 21st, 2009


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Agenda

• The Consulting Club

• The CFO Roundtable


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Mission & Objectives of the Club

Mission of the Club

The Management Consulting Club is primarily intended to familiarize SDA Bocconi Students with the consulting environment as well as to assist and support them in pursuing a career in this field on a global basis

Provide MBA Students with the opportunity to

enrich their knowledge on careers in Management

Consulting

Help students prepare for a career in management

consulting

Enhance the network opportunities with

present consultants in different roles presently

in the industry

Enlarge the international contacts of the club in order to enlarge global

opportunities in the consulting industry to all

MBA Students


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What Are the Club’s Main Activities?

Networking Activities

Business Games

Workshop, Events & Roundtables

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The general offer of activities that the Management Consulting is offering this year is broad and very challenging

The program is very challenging, but up to now the relults are fascinating: 3 business games promoted, 4 networking dinners, 5 events, more than 600 people involved in our activities!

The CFO Roundtable fits in this area of activity


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Who Participates to Our Activities on the Students Side

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The target community of the Management Consulting club involves roughly 2,000 people with a particular interest in consulting industry and in main activities run in this industry (finance, strategy, operations, etc…)


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Stefano Sappino, Chief Information Office - Data Management, Poste Italiane,

Project Manager CRM

F. Scognamiglio, Marketing Finance Manager EMEA, British & American Tobacco

D. Sgorbati, Marketing Director, Ducati Motor Holding

Manuela Crippa, Fiat 500: Marketing Product Manager Worldwide, Fiat Automobiles

M. De Carolis, Head of Marketing Multimedia, Vodafone Italia

F. Giaccon, International Director of Sales & Marketing, Damiani Group

F. Pastore, Trade Marketing Director, Coca Cola HBC

S. Martinero, Vice President Brand Marketing Domestic Europe, Piaggio & Co.

S. Pugi, Marketing & Analysis Director, Valtur Tour Operator

P. Bucalo, Head of Commercial Agreements, Loyalty & Partnerships, Unicredit Group

A. Moiana, Chief Financial Controller, A2A

M. Mantoan, Chief Financial Officer Italy, Alstom Power

Who Participated to Our Activities on the Guests Side (Friends of the MCC!) …


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… Who Participated to Our Activities on the Guests Side (Friends of the MCC!)

Sara Lecce, Chief Account Payable Office, Citigroup

P. Orati, CSR Manager, Enel

L. Radice, CSR Manager, Telecom Italia

A. Paliani, Partner - Mediterranean Power & Utilities Sector Leader, Ernst & Young

M. Locatelli, Principal, Arthur D. Little

A. Monti, Principal, Arthur D Little

E. Berenga, Managing Director Italy, Alix Partners

F. Leone, Director, Alix Partners

D. Ferri, Partner – Customer Operations Leader, Ernst & Young

L. Silva, CSR Manager, KPMG Advisory

F. Napolitano, Managing Director Italy, Booz. & Co.

A. Turroni, Principal – Rome Office, The Boston Consulting Group

P. Spreafico, Recruiting Coordinator Italy, The Boston Consulting Group

L. De Brabandere, Senior Partner France, The Boston Consulting Group

… and many, many others!


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The Management Consulting club would like to discuss with the Consulting Industry & Community main topics which arise in the business environment…

Sustainability & Innovation: the Arthur DLittle Experience

Creativity Applied to Strategy & Business: Imagine, Brainstorm & Execute

Profits Up, Footprints Down: how can you grow in a world with scarce resources?

Megacommunities and World Food Program

The goal of the management consulting club is to organize monthly the events listed, bringing on campus the leading firms in the consulting industry

The CFO Roundtable

Teaming, Culture & Climate in Consulting

After the crysis: opportunities beyond the hurdles

The Automotive Industry: changing forces in an everlasting market

Building Competitive Advantage through Brand and Customer Loyalty M&A Trends: what should we expect after the crysis?

… The Management Consulting Club has planned approx. 10 large events, involving more than 30 multinational firms and 50 top managers


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The Most Successful Event of the Management Consulting Club: “Creating Competitive Advantage Through Brand and Customer Loyalty”

The most successful event of the Management Consulting Club has been an event on the Strategy / Marketing area (3° March), which has reported the following Facts & Figures:

12 Top Managers attending the Event

12 International Firms Represented

3 Supporting Firms

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Participants in the plenary session

Participants in the break-out sessions

Current Students Involved

4.2 / 5 Customer Satisfaction Index Overall

22 Alumni Students Involved

The Management Consulting Club has demonstrated the ability to organize and manage important events, enabling valuable interactions between business and “Bocconi Community”


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Agenda

• The Consulting Club

• The CFO Roundtable


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The CFO Roundtable: when and where

The CFO Roundtable will take place on Thursday 21st May in Via Balilla 18, historical “house of the MBA”, from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm. A pleasant networking aperitivo will follow the event


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– The Role of the CFO in industrial organization

– Capital Budgeting

– Corporate FInance

– M&A Trends

– Credit Crunch

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In depth discussion of strategic financial issues

Success Case Discussion

Network Opportunity with key CFO and Financial Officers in industry

– Testimonials coming from success firms in respective industries (industry, banking, consulting)

– Approx. 10 testimonials from industry

– Approx. 3 experts from consulting & banking

– Cofee Break & Aperitivo with top managers participating

– Top managers (Cfo and financial directors) of international firms

– Key consultants in consulting industry and banking

The CFO Roundtable: the main goals of the event


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The CFO Roundtable: some of the topics that can be discussed

The Corporate Finance faculty is partner of the Management Consulting Club in the definition of the topics to be discussed with the CFOs; the Partner and Supporting Firms of the Event, as Technical Coordinator and experts,

will support such topic scouting activity, and coordinate the roundtables

A first glimpse of the agenda is hereby highlighted, with a highlight of the main topics which will be discussed on the three separate roundtables

Some thoughts about the financial

crisis and how this influences the role

of the CFO New rules post financial scandals

influence the way CFO acts? What is the new role of the CFO? What are the competences

required? What kind of systems are required to

carry on daily work? Are these

systems available?

The Role of the CFO in international organizations

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm

What are the sources of funding the

CFO is using during this financial

crysis? What do CFOs look at when they

decide Capital Structure? How to decide best projects to invest

on? Are capital markets now a real

source of funding, and if not How can

we manage to make the capital

markets work again?

Capital Budgeting: how to choose where and how to invest

How much dividend to pay to the

shareholders in a period where profits

are decreasing and shareholders per? Do managers listen to the market

reactions when they make decisions?

Are Long Term Investments

prevailing? How do we deal with multiples in a

distressed market?Project Financing: main trends and

opportunities Is real option valuation a useful

alternative to evaluate a project or a

firm, when cash is in outflow?

Company Valuation: will markets better reflect company value?


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The CFO Roundtable: how will the roundtables be organized and what what will the CFOs need to prepare

We would really like to have as many CFOs involved in our panel discussions: in order to do so we have switched the preparation of the discussions on the partner’s workload, and targeting an open discussion

organization

Due to the important role of the CFO, and the resctriction on his agenda, we decided to organize the event with open speaking roundtables, where no preparation work is required for the CFOs joining the event

Roundtable Mediation

• The Roundtable regarding “The Role of the CFO” will be conducted by the partner firm

• The “technical” roundtables will be spit between the Department of Corporate Finance of the Sda Bocconi School of Management and the partner firm

Question Formulation

• By Monday 11th May the Mediators will submit to the roundtable components a draft of the questions that will be adressed in the roundtables

• By Tuesday 19th May the CFOs may request a change in the questions, and may point out the ones to which they do not want to share an opinion

Panel Discussion

• During the roundtable, the mediator will submit some or all of the questions (according to time constraints) to the CFOs who haven’t denied the opportunity to answer, with an open discussion format

• Q&A Session from the audience will last 20/30 minutes at the end of the panel discussion


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The CFO Roundtable: More than 30 CFOs of International Organizations Have Been Invited from Several Different Industries…


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The CFO Roundtable: … and From Some Very Famous Companies

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