Angelo Ditillo

Angelo Ditillo is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Control at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Angelo teaches in the full time MBA program and has conducted numerous education projects with Novartis, ABB and UniCredit.

His research activities focus on business planning and control of private equity agreements, management control of creative and innovative organizations, inter-organizational control of private and public partnerships, modes of control in knowledge-intensive firms and, more recently, the digital transformation and management accounting revolution. He is the author of numerous books and articles on his topics of interest. His work has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, the European Accounting Review, the Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research,the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, among others. Angelo has won numerous teaching and research awards, including the Best Teaching Award in 2013, Best Teaching Innovation Award in 2018, the David Solomons Prize for the best paper published in 2012 in Management Accounting Research and the 2018 European Accounting Review Best Paper Prize in 2019.

Angelo serves on the editorial board of various journals, including the Journal of Management Accounting Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting and theJournal of International Accounting Research. He is a member of the European Accounting Association (EAA), where he also servers as a member of the External Relations Committee, of the American Accounting Association (AAA), and of the Research Advisory Board (CIMA).

Angelo earned an MSc in Business Administration from Università Bocconi and a PhD in Business Administration and Management from Università Bocconi. He has one child.

Teaching domains

• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Performance Management
• Strategic & Business Planning
• Value Based Management
• Transfer Pricing

Grants & Honors

• Best Paper Award 2018 - EAA - European Accounting Association , 2019
• Excellence in Innovation Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2018
• David Solomons Prize for the best paper published in 2012 in Management Accounting Research - Management Accounting Research , 2013
• Best Professor of the Year Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2013
• ‘Best Paper’ Award - New Public Sector Seminar, Edimburgh , 2008