Hanken School of Economics’ Executive MBA programme has been granted continued accreditation by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for the next five years. Hanken has held the AMBA accreditation since 2008.
According to the joint message of Finnish universities for the 2027–2031 parliamentary term, Finland’s future success and well-being will be built on groundbreaking research and top-level expertise.
Governments have promoted digitalisation of public services to improve efficiency, cut costs and meet modern demands for speedy responses. “This push for the digital has caught some people by surprise. Many older adults now feel they face another hurdle in living an independent life”, Hanken’s Professor Emeritus Jeff Hearn writes in The Conversation.
New statistics on the employment situation in Finland one year after graduation show that alumni who graduated from Hanken in 2024 are doing well. Despite a challenging economic situation in Finland, Hanken graduates continue to find their place in the labour market.
How can we build working lives that people can actually sustain over increasingly long careers? Hertta Vuorenmaa, university lecturer at Hanken, researches on the future of work and how we can create more human-centred, inclusive and sustainable workplaces in an era shaped by digitalisation and AI.
“I would like to extend my warmest thanks to the donors for your continuous support. We at Hanken would not be able to maintain our level of ambition without your support,” stated Rector Ingmar Björkman at Hanken’s Donor Evening and Scholarship Ceremony on 27 May.
“Depending on who you ask, either AI is transforming white-collar work and rendering many office jobs obsolete, or we are in a massive speculative bubble that is about to burst”, writes Assistant Professor Sippo Rossi in a blog post.
This year the Fazer Award goes to Alice Saraiva. The €15,000 award is given to a Hanken student who demonstrates strong values and good academic performance.
Digital tools are often used to increase citizen participation, but more activity does not always lead to better engagement. New research shows how participatory budgeting, where citizens decide how public funds are spent, can be redesigned to create greater public value.
Sonja Sarasvuo, assistant professor in marketing, has received the Waldemar von Frenckell Foundation’s award in business and economics, amounting to EUR 30,000. The award, which is granted to different scientific disciplines each year, supports her research in marketing and brand strategy.
A new issue of the Hanken Magazine is now available. The magazine highlights new research, current study-related topics, and important events from the past year.
The Hanken Insights event on 20 May 2026 invited experts to discuss the current state of the Nordic labour market and how it is shaped and impacted by technological and structural change. A key takeaway was that human expertise will remain essential, but agility in learning is critical for success in a rapidly changing labour market.
Hanken School of Economics’ new diploma programmes offer a flexible opportunity to develop expertise in topical and relevant areas such as intellectual property law, corporate responsibility and supply chain management. The programme begins in autumn 2026.
A new research project will examine how major changes in the labour market affect crime. Sofia Bougt-Hernnäs, assistant professor of economics at Hanken School of Economics, is part of the project group which has received SEK 1,5 million funding from Handelsbanken’s Research Foundations.
As part of the Hanken JobShadow initiative, companies open their doors to international students for a day, offering a unique glimpse into everyday working life in Finland. For students Ayesha Ahmed and Luozhi Chen, this meant spending a day inside Wärtsilä and Rights & Brands.
A new, comprehensive agreement between five Swedish-language higher education institutions in Finland aims to ensure both a wide offering and opportunities for specialisation in education. Through this cooperation, the institutions seek to strengthen Swedish-language higher education by increasing synergies, choice, and academic diversity.
Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements with Catholic University of Portugal – Porto, Portugal, and The Queen’s University of Belfast in North Ireland, United Kingdom. You can apply for an exchange at the new partner universities for the spring semester 2027 in the application round that opened today. The deadline for the applications is 15 June 2026.
Hanken’s total annual carbon footprint* in 2025 was 11 876 tCO2e. Emissions decreased by 3 % compared to the reference year 2018 and by 16 % compared to 2024. A vast majority of Hanken’s climate emissions arise from its value chain.
