Federico Magni

Disseminating knowledge is necessary to cultivate future generations and promote the advancement of society. Enabling people to realise their potential is what motivated me to pursue an academic career, and it spurred my passion for teaching.

I currently teach Organizational Behavior and Design to UG Students in NBS. Previously, I have taught “Introduction to Management” to undergraduate students in HKUST, and "Methods in Management Research" and "Organizational Behavior" to master and PhD students in ETH Zürich. I designed the course content, materials, and evaluations for these courses. I have also co-taught with Prof. Grote the course "Leading Teams" in Ashesi University (Ghana) as part of a Master of Science arranged in collaboration with ETH Zürich. In addition, I collaborated with Prof. Manzoni of SDA Bocconi in the creation of an online course about creativity at work.

In "Organizational Behavior" I engage students in discussions about the main topics researched in the field, including personality, emotions, design thinking, teamwork, leadership, conflict, and organizational culture. Promoting hands-on, experiential learning and adopting a flipped-classroom approach, I ensure that students apply theoretical context to real-life scenarios, so that they can retain the skills and competencies developed in class. In "Introduction to Management" I taught the history of management and organisational behaviour topics such as cognitive biases, decision-making, personality, motivation, leadership, group dynamics, workplace emotions, and organisational culture. I blended traditional face-to-face teaching with more engaging techniques, such as videos and experiential activities (e.g. live surveys, group decision-making tasks, and real-life scenarios). In "Methods in Management" I presented the main quantitative and qualitative methods currently used in management research, and talked about how to create a coherent fit among research question, research design, and data analysis. Students have been overall very satisfied of my teaching, especially regarding class participation, content delivery, motivation to learn, and the applicability to real life of the course contents.

I have worked extensively with students taking on several roles, such as lecturer, thesis supervisor, teaching and project assistant, and one-on-one training. I have also been serving the community acting as student representative, peer-reviewing for journals and conferences, and setting up recurring brown-bag meetings and invited talks.

I have served as a teaching assistant and project, coaching undergraduate and master students, and as a temporary helper, assisting professors with experiential teaching activities, including team blindfold and water bomb exercises.

Alone and in collaboration with other scholars, I have also supervised master theses in Bocconi and ETH Zürich, guiding students in the design of surveys, statistical analyses, and the framing of an academic paper. Moreover, I have conducted one-on-one tutoring with a junior research assistant in a research center at Bocconi, teaching how academic papers are structured, how to write a paper, and how to interpret and perform quantitative analyses.

Both during my PhD and my post-doc I have devoted myself to the community of scholars working with me and at large. On top of reviewing for conferences and journals, I engaged in activities such as setting up regular department brownbag meetings - which last to this day - together with my fellow PhD colleagues, as well as acting as PhD student representative at HKUST and, more recently, as journal club moderator and PhD students' co-supervisor at ETH.

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