Inaugural lectures by new professors

Programme (15-16.30):

Music performance 

Welcome words by Dean of Research Gyöngyi Kovacs

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Inaugural installation lectures:

Early internationalizing firms and decision-making
Mika Gabrielsson, Professor in Marketing

Leading through social networks and relationships
Olli-Pekka Kauppila, Professor in Management and Organisation 

Bridging inner and outer sustainability
Mrinalini Kochupillai, Professor of Sustainability and Business Law 

Accounting, organizing, and economizing: connecting accounting research and organization theory
Othmar Lehner, Professor in Accounting

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Congratulations & Closure words 

Music is performed by Henrik Wikström, musician and Hanken alumnus.  

The event is free of charge but requires registration in advance via this page.

Information about the professors

Mika Gabrielsson, Professor in Marketing

Mika Gabrielsson has a masters degree in marketing from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration . He is Doctor of Science in Business Economics from Aalto university. His professional academic positions include:

• Dean of Education and professor of marketing at Hanken in 2023
• Head of the Doctorate programme of the School and Professor of International Business and Sales at the University of Eastern Finland
• Advisor of the Doctorate programme and visiting professor of Sales at the University of Portsmouth
• Docent of International Business at Aalto University and Docent of International Marketing at Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Selected recent publications

Gabrielssson, Peter; Galkina, Tamara; Chabowski, Brian; Gabrielsson, Mika (2026). Improvisation in internationalization decision-making: The critical role of entrepreneurs in SMEs, Journal of World Business. 

Chetty, S.; Gabrielsson, P.; Gabrielsson, Mika (2024). “Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms”, Journal of World Business. 

Ojala, Arto; Fraccastoro, Sara; Gabrielsson, Mika (2023). ”Characteristics of Digital Artifacts in International Endeavors of Digital-based INVs”, Global Strategy Journal, 

Fürst, Andreas; Gabrielsson, Mika; Gabrielsson, Peter; Prigge, Jana-Kristin (2023). ”The Role of Marketing in New Ventures: How Marketing Activities Should be Organized in Firms’,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 

Partanen, Jukka; Kauppila, Olli-Pekka; Sepulveda, Fabian; Gabrielsson, Mika (2020). ”Turning network resources into performance: the mediating role of network identity of small-and medium-sized enterprises,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 

Olli-Pekka Kauppila, Professor in Management and Organisation

Olli-Pekka Kauppila received a Master of Science from Turku School of Economics in 2005 and a PhD in Organisations and Management from Aalto University School of Business in 2011. His academic positions include:

• Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor at Aalto University School of Business
• Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School in Reims, France. 

Selected recent publications

Kauppila, O-P., Bizzi, L., and Obstfeld, D. (2024). “Opening new brokerage opportunities while closing existing ones: The tertius iungens orientation as a source of network advantage.” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(1): 21–38. 

Kauppila, O-P., Ehrnrooth, M., Mäkelä, K., Smale, A., Sumelius, J., and Vuorenmaa, H. (2022). “Serving to help and helping to serve: Using servant leadership to influence beyond supervisory relationships.”  Journal of Management, 48(3): 764–790. 

Kauppila, O-P., Bizzi, L., and Obstfeld, D. (2018). “Connecting and creating: Tertius iungens, individual creativity, and strategic decision processes.” Strategic Management Journal, 39(3): 697–719. 

Nijstad, B., Calic, G.; De Faria, P., Grimpe, C., & Kauppila, O.-P. (2026). ”Connecting creativity and innovation research: Building bridges to cross divides” Research Policy, 55(2) 105391. 

Partanen, J., Kauppila, O-P., Sepulveda, F., and Gabrielsson, M. (2020). “Turning network resources into performance: The mediating role of network identity of small-and medium-sized enterprises.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 14(2): 178-197. 

Mrinalini Kochupillai, Professor in Sustainability and Business Law

Mrinalini Kochupillai got her Master of Laws from Franklin Pierce Law Centre, University of New Hampshire, and in 2016 she became Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig Maximilian University. Her professional academic positions include:

• Professor for Sustainability and Business Law at Hanken School of Economics.
• Adjunct Faculty at Vetmeduni University of Vienna  
• Associate Professor (guest/non-tenured) at Technical University of Munich
• Affiliated Guest Professor at Technical University of Munich

Selected recent publications

Cleverly, P., M. Kochupillai, M. Lindsay and E. Ruttcamp-Bloem (2025). Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Recommendations for the Geoscience Community. Task Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Geosciences of the Commission on Geoethics of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) 

Kochupillai, M (2025). Earth “Observation” and the Anthropocene: Rethinking the “Observer Effect” Through the Lens of Yoga Philosophy. In: Bohle, M., Nauen, C.E. (eds) Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues with the Earth Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97445-8_4  

Kochupillai, M*., M. Kahl, M. Schmitt, H. Taubenböck, and X.X. Zhu (2022). "Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Emerging Ethical Issues and Opportunities." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 10(4): 90-124. 

Kochupillai, M.* and J. Köninger (2022). "Cast into the Stones of International Law: A Critique of the UPOV Standards in the Light of Scientific Insights and Policy Shifts toward Agroecology and Natural Farming." In H.G. Ruse-Khan and A. Metzger, Eds. Intellectual Property Ordering Beyond Borders. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.   

Kochupillai, M.*, U. Gallersdörfer, J. Köninger, and R. Beck (2021). "Incentivizing Research and Innovation with Agrobiodiversity Conserved In Situ: Possibilities and Limitations of a Blockchain-Based Solution." Journal of Cleaner Production 309: 127-155.

Othmar Lehner, Professor i Redovisning

Othmar Lehner has a master's degree in accounting and finance from JKU Austria and has become doctor in Business and Economics from University of Jyväskylä. His professional academic positions include:

• Hanken School of Economics since 2020  
• Professorial Fellow at University of Oxford since 2015  
• Full Professor in Finance at Middlesex University of London since 2017

Selected recent publications

Lehner, O. (2025). Layered Fields of Power: A Bourdieusian Critique of Sustainability Accounting in EU Regulation and Beyond, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 

Kapplmüller, S., Lehner, O.M., Greiling, D. (2025). Double Materiality at Work: Pathways to Organizational Change, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 

Lehner, O.M., Kyriacou, O. (2023), On the Origins of Humboldt’s Naturgemälde: Towards new Perspectives in Environmental Accounting, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 

Lehner, O.M., Nicholls, A. and Schmid, S.B., (2022), Arenas of Contestation: A Senian Justice Perspective on the Nature of Materiality in Impact Measurement, Journal of Business Ethics 

Lehner, O.M., Ittonen, K., Silvola, H., Ström, E. And Wührleitner, A., (2022), Artificial Intelligence and Decision-making in Accounting: Ethical Challenges and Normative Thinking, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal