Cleo Silvestri

Teaching

My teaching activities mainly focus on Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. In particular, I have expertise in teaching MBA students in online modules years before the pandemic started, by delivering lectures in a standard didactic format, and by using both case-studies and simulations. Below I provide a description of the roles covered in the past years, separating Teaching, Coaching, and activities performed as a Teaching Assistant. 

Teaching

Digital Business
Global Online MBA
  • Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Task: This is a programme of 10 weeks of online learning where I provide support to the students enrolled. The task includes answering students' questions, providing feedback on their submissions, as well as evaluating group coursework. I prepare and deliver online sessions for MBA students.
  • My rating (in 2021): 4.8/5.0
Corporate Innovation
Global Online MBA
  • Years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Task: This is a programme of 10 weeks of online learning where I provide support to the students enrolled. The task includes answering students' questions, providing feedback on their submissions, as well as evaluating individual and group coursework. I also prepare and deliver online sessions for the MBA students. Familiarity with a simulation from Harvard Business Publishing Education.
  • My rating (in 2021): 4.6/5.0.

    Coaching

    Business Simulation in nascent and established markets
    MSc Strategic Marketing
    • Year: 2017
    • Task: Coaching students through the “Markstrat Business Simulation” software and the decision making throughout the different periods when competing in new and existing markets. I shaped students’ learning experience. Using this tool has been beneficial to put into practice the theoretical insights explained in class.
    • My rating: Students did not rate tutors in this class.
    Entrepreneurial Smart Camp
    Summer School: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Department
    • Year: 2015
    • Task: Coaching students in the process of idea generation and business model development.
      Students' supervision from the early stage of their entrepreneurial idea until the final day when they presented their pitch in front of judges. Delivered a lecture on the role of social enterprises and the challenges encountered by entrepreneurs in simultaneously pursuing social and commercial goals.
    • My rating: 4.7/5.0

    Teaching Assistant

    Business Models and Intellectual Property; Managing Innovation
    MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management
    • Years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
    • Task: Marking students’ coursework and providing constructive feedback.
    Corporate Strategy & Leadership; Corporate Strategy; Global Strategy; Strategy Implementation; Competitive & Corporate Strategy
    MSc Economics & Strategy for Business & MSc International Management
    • Years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
    • Task: Marking group assignments and students’ presentations, participation in Q&A sessions.
    Managing Innovation
    Business for Professionals of Engineering and Science
    • Years: 2019, 2020, 2021
    • Task: Marking group assignments and students’ presentations, participation in Q&A sessions.
    Innovation & Technology Strategy
    MSc International Management
    • Year: 2020
    • Task: Marking individual assignments on the Back Bay Battery simulation (Harvard Business Publishing Education).