Hanken's staff is warmly welcomed to the Opening of the Academic Year, which will be held in Helsinki on 4 September 2023 at 14 and in Vaasa on 5 September 2023 at 13. The dinner in Helsinki is arranged 7 September and in Vaasa the dinner is held on 5 September.
What motivates luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Balenciaga, and Versace to collaborate with streetwear brands, animated characters, and video games?
Digital intimate partner violence is not only affecting the victim but potentially also any workplace, even yours and mine. It cannot be ignored, especially by managers and others with power to do something about it, says Charlotta Niemistö, project leader at Hanken School of Economics.
For the first time in 10 years, a Finn brings home an individual men's medal in the World Orienteering Championships. Olli Ojanaho, who studies Management and Organisation at Hanken, won the bronze medal in long-distance orienteering in Switzerland in July 2023.
The results from the joint entrance exam in economic sciences, held in June, have now been published in My Studyinfo for Hanken’s Bachelor degree programme in Helsinki and Vaasa.
The European Commission has announced that ENGAGE.EU is to receive a follow-up grant to the amount of € 14.4 million for further elaborating the collaboration among nine European universities. Hanken School of Economics has been involved in the collaboration since May 2022, and now with the renewed funding will become full member of the ENGAGE.EU alliance.
Three Hankeites participated in the international exam "Prüfung Wirtschaftsdeutsch PWD" organised in Finland by the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with Hanken and the Goethe Institute.
According to a survey conducted among exchange students who stayed at Hanken School of Economics in the spring of 2023, 87% of the respondents would recommend Hanken as an exchange university.
According to rough estimates, there are hundreds of millions of human workers globally who work with animals on a daily basis. A new research project will help develop better welfare for animals in work settings. The focus is on human-dog working relations in different organisations, including service-, scent detection-, therapy-, pain- and cancer dogs at work.
People working within the field of law and business, and also society at large, can benefit significantly from legal design and thus increase comprehensibility, efficiency and risk management.
The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) has announced that Hanken’s quality system has passed the audit performed in the spring 2023. The quality label is valid for six years.
Hanken doctoral student Joosua Virtanen has been awarded a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship. Virtanen is one of three Finns awarded this prestigious one-year grant and will travel to the University of California, Berkeley this autumn to conduct research related to his doctoral thesis.
There is still plenty of untapped tourism potential in Ostrobothnia. Hanken School of Economics is thus partnering with the relevant tourism stakeholders to draw up a road map of the various local players’ shared visions of how tourism could be developed in the province.
Take almost any social problem in the wealthy part of the world today – poverty, widespread unemployment, uneven distribution of income, inadequate funding for public health, schools, or environmental conservation – and more economic growth is seen as the best and often only solution.
The Board of the Hanken Support Foundation has appointed Mia Bengts as Ombudsman for the Foundation from 1 August 2023. Mia Bengts is a Hanken alumna and has a law degree from the University of Helsinki. The Foundation's current Ombudsman Paul Taimitarha will retire on 1 September 2023.
