Hanken Business Lab

From a dusty, dimly lit space filled with old IT equipment to a vibrant innovation hub with more than 60 member companies and organisations, Hanken Business Lab is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

How can businesses, humanitarian organisations and volunteers work together more effectively to strengthen society’s preparedness for future crises? This is what the new research project NORD-PRELOG at Hanken School of Economics will address. The Peter Wallenberg Foundation supports the project with SEK 2.8 million.

New research shows that the gender of the CFO can affect how loan terms are renegotiated in the U.S. Lenders may treat male and female CFOs differently, either because of unconscious bias or because they make assumptions based on gender rather than the individual CFO.

A new policy brief explores how critical societal functions change over time and highlights the need to reassess them as society and the threat environment change.