European Business History Association in all aspects of business history, with particular emphasis on corporate governance, innovation and organisational change. The Bocconi Business History group is based at Bocconi University, Milan (www.unibocconi.it), in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management. The group consists of tenured and non tenured scholars doing research in various fields of business history. The group is active in the organization of conferences and seminars both at national and international level. Broadly speaking, the research interests of its members include topics as entrepreneurship, history of fashion and creative industries, international business, family business and State-owned enterprises. Centre for Business History
Bocconi University of the university there are three sets of doors. The central doors, which are larger than the others, have two lions to either side of them. There is a superstition within the university that students who pass in-between the two lions via the central doors risk not being able to graduate. This derives from the old adage "Chi passa tra i Leoni non si laurea alla Bocconi." The three main buildings of Bocconi, if seen from the top, seem to spell "30L" (30 "cum laude"), the maximum achievable grade in any exam. The building in Via Roentgen is the "3",