Franco Amatori

Franco Amatori is professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
With a scholarship of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, Amatori spent three semesters in the individual studies program of Harvard [Business School] under the tutelage of Alfred D. Chandler, [Jr.]
Since then, Prof. Amatori has pioneered the academic study of business history in Italy. He has translated Chandler's works into Italian. Also, with Andrea Colli, Prof.
Amatori co-authored a synthesis of Italian industrialization, published in 1999, Impresa e industria in Italia dall'Unità a oggi.