Francesco Stefanelli

Sometimes dreams become true.
It was never-ending year, started with the TOEFL Test (ETS, Milano) and ended with an amazing party on the sea, the friend ever.
Strongly interested about US Nearshoring Subjects, I started studying and working on Supply Chain Strategy, aside the Japanese Director Nobuyuki Tamaru; fascinated by Prof. Jim Rice from Boston MIT, I decided to start the long PhD path, living in Italy, nearby the UNIVPM of Ancona, and in the United States of America, nearby the Boston MIT.
My focus area was to study the Post-Globalization scenario, achieve a deep understanding about the Supply Chain Adaptivity into Strategy; a short summary follows:

-Executive Track in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Strategy, Agreement with JMAC Europe
-Involved in a Supply Chain Strategy Project for Intel Company
-Lecturer, Supply Chain Adaptability, GC-LOG MIT Scale Network Program, hosted by Roberto Perez-Franco
-Italian Academic Advisors: Fattori-Tamaru (references JMAC Europe, JMAC Japan), Paone-Bevilacqua (UNIVPM)
-American Academic Advisors: Rice (MIT-CTL Director), subject: Supply Chain Nearshoring, turned to Reg-Shoring
-American Project Supervisors: Perez-Franco and Phadnis (MIT-CTL), subject: Supply Chain Adaptability
-Supply Chain Strategy Courses: “Driving Strategic Advantages” (MIT-CTL, for Executives)
-Attended “Crossroads 2014” Conference, hosted by MIT-CTL
-MIT became as Official in my PhD European Comittee, through an International Agreement
-Mentioned by the Financial Times, here
-Mentioned by the MIT-CTL Journal, here
-Mentioned by the New York Times, here
-Published in the Industry Week, here
-Re-published in the MIT-CTL Official Supply Chain Blog at this link
-Mentioned by L’espresso, here
-Published in the Leadership&Management Magazine, download the article here
-Presented at the 6th IESM Management Conference (IESM 2015)
-Published in the IESM 2015 Official Proceedings (JMAC Europe re-published internally here)
-Co-author at the “Industry 4.0: Advanced Manufacturing Strategies” Conference (Milan, Fall 2015, look at the brochure here)
-Interviewed by NZZ, here
-Presented at JMAC Seminar: “Reshoring: from post-globalization to a local-to-local scenario” (Milan, June 2016)
-Extra Relationships: MIT Global Scale Network Malaysia, University of Bologna
-Activities and Societies: PIB (Italian Professionals in Boston), MITaly (The Italian Association at MIT), MIT Sailing Club, MIT-LCE, MITaly Soccer Team

After June 2009, I wanted to define and expand my whole profile: I studied IELTS test of English and I achieved the Advanced Level under British Council Final Test, attended in Bologna (BO), through Oxford ESOL standards; I also prepared the Italian Final Test of Engineering: after 4 steps in Bologna (BO), I have been a member of the Italian National Border of Engineers, class A, Sector Industrial Engineering, since that time, it was year 2010.
Moreover, I applied for ISTAO Business School, Ancona (AN): once accepted, I also managed to gain a scholarship supplied by ISTAO Partners; what is ISTAO? ISTAO Business School is the oldest Italian Business School, and it was founded by Prof. Giorgio Fuà, according to Adriano Olivetti and to the CRN. The Institute also collaborate with the most prestigious World Universities (i.e. Harvard and MIT).
Therefore I studied what I have been missing: Economics. Then, I had been working for TeamSystem, Pesaro (PU) and Desi Mobili Srl, Fabriano (AN). At the end of the Master I got a final internship in Consulgroup, Ancona (AN), a medium size consultancy company, collaborating with PE funds and operating in the middle of Italy, mainly concerning Restructuring: I became a “Lean Agent”.
In the same time, I managed to be admitted to spend 1 year at the Boston’s MIT (MA, USA), with the guide of professors Jim Rice: burocracy and organizational issues did not let me leave.
Since that, my dream would have been called a 3 letters word: “MIT”

Born in Ancona, March 1984, growing in my hometown and attending the Public Scientific Liceum “Luigi di Savoia”, sited in Ancona (AN); meanwhile I early got experienced some months abroad (London and Dublin) to study English. Partecipated to several competitions such as Latin’s Games, Math’s Olympics and Bocconi ELEUSI Games- passed the final examination with the highest marks, I also won the CONI/Panathlon prize 2001 as “student athlete”.
It was definitely time to move: I picked Alma Mater Studiorum, the oldest University in all over the world, the University of Bologna, Bologna (BO).