Rate My Professor Monica Borgida

Monica Baraldi Borgida is an Associate Teaching Professor of Business Administration at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, where she serves as Faculty Lead for Nonprofit Management programs, including the Master of Science and Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management. She also holds a Part-Time Lecturer position in International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business with a courtesy appointment and acts as Academic Director of the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship. She earned her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Pisa in 2003 and her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Bologna in 1999, graduating cum laude with 110/110 honors. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2017, Borgida worked as a Case Researcher at Harvard Business School from January 2015 to April 2017, developing cases, teaching notes, and materials on strategy, management accounting, and sustainability under HBS faculty supervision. From 2005 to 2014, she was a Tenured Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna. Since 1999, she has served as a bilingual instructor (Italian and English) at undergraduate and graduate levels across the University of Bologna’s School of Management, School of Education, Medical School, and Arts Administration programs, teaching courses such as Introduction to Business Administration, Financial and Management Accounting, Business Strategy, and Business Sustainability. She directed the Summer Program in Introduction to Management for medical students at Boston University in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Borgida’s research focuses on integrated reporting and corporate social responsibility for global businesses, business sustainability, school management, healthcare management, and business ethics. Notable publications include co-editing the special issue “Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Making of Sustainable Change” for Sustainability (MDPI, 2022); the book chapter “Education and Technology as Levers for Sustainable Change” in Collaborative Innovation Networks (Springer, 2019); Harvard Business School cases such as “Signet Jewelers: All That Glitters…” (2017), “Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program (A)” (2016), “Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil” (2016), and “The IMF: The Washington Consensus, the Critics, and the New Challenges as China Rises” (2016); and the peer-reviewed article “Gender Diversity Within The Workforce in the Microfinance Industry In Africa: Economic Performance and Sustainability” in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (2016). She contributes to academia as faculty responsible for the UN-PRME initiative at the University of Bologna, reviewer for the Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, and member of review boards for The International Journal of Teacher Leadership and Revista Espaço de Diálogo e Desconexão. Professional affiliations include the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, American Accounting Association, Academy of Management, and Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability.