AGGIORNAMENTO PERMANENTE IN PERSON Leadership in turbulent environments: managing challenges and change with Formula 1 strategies (with networking lunch)

Thursday, November 20, 2025 (1:00 pm - 6:00 pm) Meeting

AGGIORNAMENTO PERMANENTE
IN PERSON
Leadership in turbulent environments: managing challenges and change with Formula 1 strategies (with networking lunch)

In a global market dominated by uncertainty, rapid change, and fierce competition, no organization can truly consider itself safe. Competitive advantage is increasingly fragile: a single disruptive innovation or a wrong decision can radically change the rules of the game. Today, more than ever, leaders must be able to respond with clarity and agility, turning challenges into opportunities.

Formula 1 is the perfect paradigm for this scenario: every detail, no matter how small, can determine victory or defeat. Here there is no room for improvisation—performance is visible, immediate, and measurable. From this high-intensity world, business leaders can draw inspiration to refine their strategies, make more targeted decisions, and lead their organizations with a results-oriented mindset.

How can an organization prepare to face major transformations, anticipating their effects before they become threats? And what lessons can be replicated from the world of Formula 1?

In this session, Paolo Aversa will guide participants in exploring Formula 1 as a unique and extraordinary strategic laboratory: an ecosystem where innovation, performance, and resilience are interwoven, offering valuable insights for rethinking strategies and tackling the challenges of competitive business.

In particular, the session will explore:

why Formula 1, and when its strategies work
how Formula 1 strategies can be applied across other industries: use cases on innovation, AI, and storytelling.

Speaker

Paolo Aversa

Professor of Strategy, King’s Business School, King’s College London

Programme

November 20, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Networking lunch
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Why Formula 1 is a winning model Debate
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Break
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Lessons learned from Formula 1: use-cases Debate

Documenti dell'incontro

AGGIORNAMENTO PERMANENTE
IN PERSON
Leadership in turbulent environments: managing challenges and change with Formula 1 strategies (with networking lunch)

Nota informativa

AGGIORNAMENTO PERMANENTE
IN PERSON
Leadership in turbulent environments: managing challenges and change with Formula 1 strategies (with networking lunch)

Kit

List of participants

The European House Ambrosetti

Documents

AGGIORNAMENTO PERMANENTEIN PERSON
Leadership in turbulent environments: managing challenges and change with Formula 1 strategies (with networking lunch)

Essere Leader in Ambienti Turbolenti. Lezioni dalla F1

Paolo Aversa

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

Random House

Ferrari. L'uomo, l'auto, il mito

Brock Yates

Garzanti

Driving performance via exploration in changing environments: evidence from Formula One racing

Alessandro Marino, Paolo Aversa, Luiz Mesquita, Jaideep Anand

Organization Science

Business model configurations and performance: a qualitative comparative analysis in Formula One racing, 2005–2013

Paolo Aversa, Santi Furnari, Stefan Haefliger

Oxford University Press

The primordial soup: exploring the emotional microfoundations of cluster genesis

Paolo Aversa, Santi Furnari, Mark Jenkins Jenkins

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

La mentalità vincente. I segreti per superare le sfide più grandi nello sport e nella vita

George Mumford

Giunti Editore

Da eccezione a norma: come prepararsi per affrontare la crisi di domani

Gabriele Genuino

Harvard Business Review Italia

Come guidare con successo il cambiamento quando tutto è incerto

Michaela J. Kerrissey, Julia Di Benigno

Harvard Business Review Italia

Exploring new playing fields: sports settings and management theorizing

Paolo Aversa, Thomas P. Moliterno, Kevin W. Rockmann, Matthew S. Bothner, Dmitry Sharapov, Rory Eckardt

Academy of Management

Become an octopus organization

Jana Werner, Phil Le-Brun

Harvard Business Review

What it takes to lead your team through turbulence

Yasin Rofcanin, Benjamin Laker, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Rifat Kamasak

MIT Sloan Management Review

The birth of a business icon through cultural branding: Ferrari and the Prancing Horse, 1923 - 1947

Paolo Aversa, Katrin Schreiter, Filippo Guerrini

Enterprise and Society: the international journal of business and history

When decision support systems fail: Insights for strategic information systems from Formula 1

Paolo Aversa, Laure Cabantous, Stefan Haefliger

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Sometimes, Less Innovation Is Better

Scott Berinato, Paolo Aversa

Harvard Business Review

Thursday, November 20, 2025 (1:00 pm - 6:00 pm) Meeting