Matteo Borghi.

Teaching

Entrepreneurship is learned by doing.

My students pitch to industry experts, run start-up sprints and work with real companies. Technology, including AI, is part of the toolkit, and I use it to give large cohorts faster, fairer feedback.

Students and industry judges gathered in a lecture theatre after Dragons’ Den 2025, with a Henley Business School banner in front of a screen showing the student team logos
Recognition
  • AI in Marking Award · International e-Assessment Awards, 2026
  • Henley Award for Teaching & Learning · innovative pedagogies, 2024
  • EQUIS good practice · cited in Henley’s re-accreditation
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy · 2022

Signature initiatives

2024 – present · with Dr Andrew HullAward-winning

AI-supported marking and feedback

A hybrid human–AI system for the first-year entrepreneurship boot camp: markers score live presentations against a redesigned rubric, and AI helps turn their judgements into rich, consistent feedback.

1,000+
students
240
group presentations
2024 – 2025 · MalaysiaInternational

Start-up boot camps

The Henley Winter Start-Up Boot Camp at the University of Reading Malaysia, funded by Research England, and the first Innovative Malaysia Start-Up Intensive Weekend, with follow-up research on what participants go on to do.

Modules

Undergraduate modules I currently convene at Henley Business School.

Supervision

I’m open to supervising PhD and DBA candidates.

Thinking about a PhD or DBA? I’d love to hear your idea.

I welcome proposals in these areas:

  • AI and service robots in services
  • Online reviews and big data
  • Digital entrepreneurship
  • PropTech and real estate innovation
  • Entrepreneurship education
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