In autumn 2025, a new master’s programme in sustainability reporting and financial analysis was launched as a collaboration between Hanken in Vaasa and Umeå University. It is Finland’s first one-year master’s level programme at university level.

Vill du ha ett flexibelt jobb vid sidan av studierna? Som studentambassadör för Hanken får du möjlighet att utvecklas, träffa nya människor och samtidigt inspirera framtida studenter.

A new way to store your things: pack at home, schedule pickup through an app, and have them delivered back whenever you need, whether it’s a few items or everything at once. This innovative service has been created by Hanken student Axel Aarnio and his co-founder Mikael Mauranen, in collaboration with Posti and Hanken Business Lab.

Hanken offers students the opportunity to participate in the ENGAGE.EU Winter Schools, which are organized in January and February 2026 by NHH, University of Mannheim and WU Vienna. Application deadline is 15 Oct 2025. Students can apply to multiple Winter Schools but can only be offered a spot at one.

Hanken School of Economics’ Bachelor in Business programme in English has 1001 applicants in the first joint application. Hanken's Master's programme in English has 769 applicants.

Vad händer med affärsrelationerna mellan Finland och Sverige nu då båda länderna är medlemmar i Nato? Bland annat det ska ett nytt forskningsprojekt vid Svenska handelshögskolan (Hanken) ta reda på. Projektet har beviljats 120 000 euro från Liikesivistysrahasto.

Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements with Esade Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain and University of Aberdeen i Aberdeen, United Kingdom. You can apply for an exchange at these new partner universities for autumn semester 2025 as soon as the application round opens mid-december. Deadline for applications is 3 February 2025. You will find a short introduction to the new partners below.

Firms with strong improvisational abilities are more likely to learn and succeed when entering new markets, a new study from Hanken School of Economics shows.

Företag med hög improvisationskapacitet har större chans att lyckas när de tar sig in på nya marknader visar en ny studie från Svenska handelshögskolan (Hanken).

Individual wellbeing doesn’t always add up to team wellbeing – but reflection and open communication can help.

Det är mer sannolikt att både teamet och individerna mår bra om man reflekterar och delar med sig av sina problem inom teamet, och om det finns goda relationer mellan alla medlemmar. Långt ifrån alla team lyckas hitta rätt balans visar ny forskning.

At the end of 2023, a well-being survey was conducted among bachelor's and master's students at Hanken. The survey shows good result.

It’s increasingly important that students learn to think like entrepreneurs even though they may never want to start their own company. Hanken School of Economics supports students in recognizing there are good opportunities to implement a startup mentality and spark excitement from within an existing organization, through the research area of corporate entrepreneurship.

A new EU-directive requires that all end-of-life textiles, meaning clothes that can’t be used any more, are being collected separately, sorted and then reused or recycled. According to Associate Professor Anna Aminoff textile recycling processes, including separate collection and sorting, are expensive and complicated, and puts a lot of responsibility on the consumers – but things are hopefully slowly getting better.

There are upcoming training sessions for the databases Capital IQ, Factset, Orbis, Refinitiv (LSEG) Workspace and WRDS during the weeks 41-42. Check the times and links in the post!

Det kommer skolningar för databaserna Capital IQ, Factset, Orbis, Refinitiv (LSEG) Workspace och WRDS under vecka 41-42. Kolla tiderna och länkarna i posten!

“Our main task is to support companies to improve their leadership. We do this by igniting strategic renewal in teams and individuals,” says Marc Hinnenberg, CEO of Hanken & SSE Executive Education.

Hanken School of Economics has been welcomed as a partner of the European University alliance ENGAGE.EU. The alliance consists of leading European universities in business, economics, and the social sciences, which aims to provide European citizens with the set of skills and competences needed to tackle major societal challenges.

Hanken’s master level students now have the opportunity to apply for a two-week summer course "Business and Innovation in China" in Shanghai, organized by the Nordic Centre at Fudan University, one of China's top academic institutions. The course takes place during June 30 – July 14, 2023 and is estimated to equal 5 ECTS.

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Currently, several regulators including the EU are adopting new corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure laws. These laws aim to encourage companies to develop a responsible approach to business. Consequently, various effects on the company and its external stakeholders are likely to arise, some of which may be unintended.

A new patent protection, called the Unitary Patent, is expected to be introduced in Europe in 2023. This simplified procedure will reduce the cost of patenting in Europe. New research provides insights on how firms and consumers in Europe will be affected by this institutional change.

CERS was represented in the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference in Montery, AMA SERVSIGS conference in Glasglow and Frontiers in Boston this summer.

A new study conducted at Hanken School of Economics lists the most innovative companies according to Finnish consumers. The Finnish Innovation Index (FII) is a national measure of perceived innovativeness of companies among Finnish customers who have during the last six months purchased or used the products of the included companies.

Listen to the first discussion in a new series, A Cup of Hanken.

This 2020-2021 Hanken Vaasa mentor-mentee relationship is – if not a match made in heaven – then clearly one that is full of respect, warmth and learning. Mikael Still (65) and Silas Magana (34) hit it off from day one last September.
So, what is their secret? What does it take to be a good mentor? And mentee, for that matter? Could you consider becoming one?

Gamification is one of the buzzwords in today’s societies, and it seems there are no limits in what all benefits and new areas of life one can conquer with it. The new book edited by Mikko Vesa from Hanken lightens up the connections between gamification and the field of management and organization.

Christina Dahlblom has been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken’s Department of Management and Organisation as of 3 November 2020. Dahlblom wants to contribute to even tighter networks and dialogues between Hanken and the corporate world, in order to help Hanken continue developing cooperation, research and teaching that brings value to both Hanken, businesses and society.

In Hanken’s Summer Podcast, with three episodes per week in July and the beginning of August, the School’s experts speak about their research. In addition to that, they also give their best book recommendations.

I Hankens sommarpodd, som utkommer med tre avsnitt i veckan under juli och början av augusti, berättar högskolans experter om sin forskning, men ger också sina bästa boktips.

Open access (OA) is a new way of disseminating the results of science openly on the internet, in contrast to traditional subscription-based access. A new study suggests that most of pioneering OA journals led by independent scholars (indie) and OA journals published in the Chinese language do not rely on article processing charges and therefore need to find long term solution to survive and flourish.

Publish gold and hybrid open access with discounts on APCs and Hanken’s central fund for APCs.

Hanken is launching an 8-week sustainability challenge and competition. The challenge will run from 9 September to 3 November.

Torkel Tallqvist and Pekka Sääskilahti have been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken. Tallqvist is an expert on management and entrepreneurship, and Sääskilahti is an expert on economics of intellectual property rights,competition and pricing.

Torkel Tallqvist och Pekka Sääskilahti har blivit utnämnda till Professor of Practice vid Hanken. Tallqvist är expert inom företagsledningsfrågor och entreprenörskap och Sääskilahti är expert på immaterialrätt, konkurrenspolitik och prissättning.

Imagine a world in which management without reflection implements decisions recommended by complex algorithms. These algorithms have evolved into black boxes beyond managerial cognition; yet business requires them to remain competitive.

Hanken School of Economics is extending two premium scholarships to students studying at or alumni of Global Business School Network (GBSN) member schools from developing countries who are accepted into Hanken’s 2-year Master’s degree programme.

Två bilder av Jyrki Ilva, Nationalbibliotek, visar att Hanken är en av de ledande open access institutionerna i Finland.

Two slides by Jyrki Ilva, the National Library of Finland, indicate that Hanken is one of the leading open access institutions in Finland.

This year Hanken received 454 applications to the Master's degree studies in English. An exceptionally high number of the applicants, 45 %, fulfilled the general eligibility requirements.

Money follows the best people and ideas, said Professor Bengt Holmström in the opening ceremony of Helsinki GSE. Professor Jean Tirole expected courage from politicians to admit that preventing climate change will require financial investment.

Hanken School of Economics is to launch its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) later this month as the ‘Principles of Service Management’ goes live on online social learning platform, FutureLearn.

The Delegate of Occupational Safety represents Hanken’s employees in the cooperation on occupational safety. The term of office is until the end of 2019.

Now it’s time to register for the Universitas Golf 2018-competition on 13 August 2018 at the Tammer Golf course in Tampere! Interval starting times from 11 AM.

Fulbright Finland Foundation works together with the University of South Florida (USF) to support Finnish students interested in Business studies in the U.S during the study year 2019-2020. Deadline is already 29 May 2018.

Borrow a powerbank from the library.

Sometimes it is good to take a break from studying and exercise. UniSport, which is a joint venture by Hanken, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, offers sports and exercise services to a special price for students at Hanken.

The application period to Hanken’s Master’s programme closed on Wednesday 17 January. Hanken received a total of 582 applications.

Welcome to the science party of the year, Helsinki Challenge Award Party! It will be held on 24 November at 5 p.m. and the winner of the competition will be announced. Join us to celebrate science and Finland’s next 100 years!

Välkommen på årets vetenskapsfest, Helsinki Challenge Award Party! Helsinki Challenge-tävlingens vinnare avslöjas den 24 november kl.17. Kom med och fira vetenskapens och Finlands följande 100 år!

Hanken is currently investigating the ruling made by the Supreme Administrative Court to exempt an MBA-programme offered in Finland by a UK-based university in Finland from VAT.

The Hanken website is under constant work to make it as user friendly as possible. A step on the way are these guidelines on how to publish news on the web.

The application period for Hanken’s Master’s programmes was closed on Wednesday 18 January. Hanken received a total of 354 applications.

The application period for master's degree programmes in English at Hanken is 1 December 2016; 18 January 2017.

In November and December we will offer courses in Office365, Office2016 and Windows 10

M.Sc. (Econ.) Gustav Medberg defends his doctoral thesis in marketing on Thursday, 28 April 2016.

M.Sc. Sergey Osmekhin defends his doctoral thesis in Finance on Friday 22 April 2016 in Helsinki.

This year’s Anders Wall scholarship was awarded to Hanken student Fredrika Gyllang.

Årets Anders Wall-stipendium tilldelades hankeiten och mångsysslaren Fredrika Gyllang.

The application period for master’s degree studies at Hanken is 14 December 2015 – 27 January 2016

Problems with login and pin code in Hanna? How should I search, what can i find? Ask at the Library's pop up help desk in the foyer.

Hanken School of Economics opened its 107th academic year in Helsinki and its 36th in Vaasa on 1 Sept in Helsinki and 2 Sept 2015 in Vaasa.

Some databases we recommend for this autumn’s courses and for international faculty that want to follow the news in their home countries.

Hanken students awarded during the annual donor evening and the Rector’s List awards ceremonies.

Studerande premierades under den årliga stipendiesammankomsten och vid utdelningen av Rector’s List-stipendierna.