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.
The marketing team is creating a virtual Advent calendar on Instagram this year! Everyone at Hanken, as well as all friends of Hanken, are welcome to join!
To strengthen information security and ensure that email is handled in accordance with Hanken’s data protection guidelines, automatic forwarding of emails from Hanken email accounts to external email addresses will be discontinued on 4 November 2026.
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.
Info sessions are held for bachelor’s students in their second year and above who, according to their study plan, will go on exchange during the autumn semester 2027. Separate sessions are also held for students interested in exchange on master’s level.
Access to Orbis is restored! The instructions for how to access the database has changed as you now need to register a personal Orbis account. Update 30.10: you cannot register an Orbis account outside of Hanken networks!
The financial database Orbis is out of use. The Library database Hanna is also down due to critical updates. Both can be out of use from a couple of hours to up to a day. 22.10 Update: Hanna is working again.
All Finnish universities and a broad coalition of organisations across the research community are calling on political parties and candidates to explain how they will safeguard the conditions for freedom and independence of research.
When learning outcomes are assessed, the focus is often on performance rather than the learning process. In a blog post, Taija Townsend reflects on how students themselves perceive and experience effort in their studies.
Rector has appointed the members of Hanken’s new Alumni Council. The Council serves as a strategic advisory body and consists of external members, a student representative, and representatives from Hanken.
Aapo Stenhammar, Topi Miettinen and Julia Salmi, researchers at Hanken School of Economics, have been awarded funding from the OP Pohjola Research Foundation for a research project examining how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming companies, the labour market, and innovation in Finland.
AI Spotlight is a series of 30 minute online presentations in which Hanken shares fresh insights, emerging findings, and practical implications for research, business, and society.
Hanken has published its tenth PRME report, showcasing progress in integrating sustainability, ethics and responsibility across teaching, research and university operations.
Alumni of Hanken School of Economics are very satisfied with both their studies and career development, according to the national alumni survey conducted annually in Finland. The results also show that Hanken alumni have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. This year's survey opens on 1 October 2026, and we once again hope that as many alumni as possible will take the time to respond.
"Stress testing, used to assess resilience to economic shocks, needs to better reflect the complex reality organisations face today," said Hanken’s Professor of Practice Ingalill Aspholm at a Hanken Insights seminar on 22 September.
Brand activism is becoming increasingly common as companies take a stand on societal issues. However, activism is not without risks. In a new study, researchers have analysed how the plant-based food company Oatly managed the criticism that followed its high-profile milk campaign in Finland.
When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were still university researchers, they warned that advertising could undermine the trustworthiness of search engines. More than two decades later, a similar question is emerging around AI.
Are you a Hanken student with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ambition to build, lead, or develop businesses and new ideas? Apply for the Anders Wall Scholarship by 16 October 2026!
