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.

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.

Finland aims for 75 percent of international students to stay in the country and enter the labour market after graduation. This is also something Hanken is actively working towards.

Hanken’s Student Union, SHS, announced the Lecturer of the Year during its annual celebration in Helsinki on 24 February 2026. This year, the title was awarded to Associate Professor Dennis Sundvik, who teaches accounting. In Vaasa, Professor Peter Björk received the title Teacher of the Year, awarded by the student association SSHV.

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.

What happens to donated textiles to non-profit charity organisations? New research offers insight into collection and sorting of used textiles for charity second-hand shops as well as into partnerships for textile circularity between non-profits and companies.

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.

Are you working with a written assignment or your thesis and have questions about writing? Are you wondering how to best convey your message? Or do you need help with information searching, references, formatting your Word document or how to manage your research data properly? Need some good advice on the research process or tips to overcome writer's block?

Professor Gang Wang from Florida State University is visiting Hanken during autumn 2024 as Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair.

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).

Professor Terry Esper is visiting Hanken during spring 2024 as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor.

Fighting global threats, from climate change to new contagious viruses, often requires large-scale changes in behavior. How can we modify the behavior of billions of people? This is the key question in Professor Tore Ellingsens economics lectures in how to change the world.

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.

During Rector’s mulled wine event in Helsinki on 15 December 2023, and in Vaasa on 18 December 2023, Rector Ingmar Björkman presented awards and distinctions. Björkman also presented the medals awarded by President Sauli Niinistö on Independence Day.

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!

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.

“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.

“We are still at an early stage in a complex digital world of finance. There are huge opportunities for making finance cheaper, faster and safer”, says Bengt Holmström, Nobel laureate in economics and Hanken Foundation Distinguished Fellow Professor.

Professor Lisa Ellram is visiting Hanken during spring 2023 as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor.

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.

Interested in learning more about how recommender systems (RSs) influence our decision-making processes during online shopping?

MentorX is an innovative mentor network that brings together mentors and coaches with first-time entrepreneurs. Now you have the chance to join us!

On 6 December 2022, President of the Republic of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, awarded three medals to people connected with Hanken School of Economics. The medals are officially awarded on Independence Day, but Hanken will mark the occasion with a ceremony during the Rector's Christmas coffee at the School on 16 December 2022.

Are you interested in starting your own company but don't know where to start? Do you have a can-do-attitude? Are you based in Helsinki? Then The Playground is something for you! Apply now to the spring 2023 pre-incubator program.

These days, consumers have access to practically all music imaginable, thanks to smartphones and services such as Spotify, and the shelves of corner shops are filled with food and drink from all over the world.

Hanken's staff is warmly welcomed to the Opening of the Academic Year, which will be held in Helsinki on 1 September 2022 at 13 and in Vaasa on 2 September 2022 at 13. Instead of the announced kick-off in Helsinki on 19 August 2022, a dinner will be held in the evening after the academic ceremony. In Vaasa the dinner will be held on 13 September 2022.

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.

Professor Irene Calboli from Texas A&M University School of Law is visiting Hanken as a Hanken-Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics until 10 July 2022.

Creating a stronger link between economics and IT, managing big data more efficiently, making better data-driven decisions and developing new fintech solutions – these and others are areas Quantum wants to be involved in.

Food security is defined as having sufficient access to food in order to maintain a healthy life. The mainstream approach to ensuring sufficient food and nutrition security is focused on production and consumption. New research shows that food security research and action need to emphasise distribution and retail in addition to agricultural production.

On 19–20 November, researchers in different disciplines will be discussing some of the latest scientific findings and fascinating research projects in the centre of Vaasa. All the universities and universities of applied sciences in Vaasa will contribute to this science celebration of rare proportions, organised jointly with the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

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

Lyssna på den första diskussionen i den nya serien A Cup of Hanken.

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.

Although a state of emergency is not the optimal situation for developing novel innovations, a newly published Hanken study shows how the Covid crisis presented certain businesses with the opportunity to take their operations in an entirely new strategic direction.

To the extent that the Covid-19 pandemic may change certain fundamental patterns of consumer behaviour, companies must carefully consider how to adjust their market strategies and tactics accordingly.

New research shows that understanding the customer ecosystem is essential for successful smart self-service experiences, like activity trackers. The ecosystems can be individual-, brand- or socially-driven.

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.

How could we increase sustainability in urban last mile deliveries? Can innovations both reduce the negative effects of e-commerce and simultaneously create a top delivery system for consumers? Hanken School of Economics is coordinating a Nordic research project that will dive into these questions.

Working from home can help us find new habits preparing us for the future of work, says Assistant Professor Emma Nordbäck.

Rector's greetings to students and staff during the corona epidemic.

Hanken alumnus Anders Portman photographs architecture and building environments. For him, working as an entrepreneur with his own values guiding him is important.

Researchers within a project focusing on Syria and Ukraine are studying in which form aid should be delivered to population in needs. The project aims to create guidelines for humanitarian organisations operating in conflict zones.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of CERS, Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management at Hanken, the Grönroos Prize 2019 was awarded to prominent service researchers, Professor Suvi Nenonen and Professor Kaj Storbacka.

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

Welcome to Hanken Research Day on 27 September 2019 at 13:30 in the Assembly Hall, Helsinki!

How do you assess stakeholder risks in organisations? A new study discusses the crucial role of knowledge and the lack of it regarding organisational risk management, by applying ISO 31000 risk standard.

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.

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.

Hanken has a new agreement with Fazer concerning restaurant services at Hanken. The new agreement also includes new pricing.

During Hanken's traditional Christmas coffee in Helsinki 18 December 2018, Rector Karen Spens honoured Hanken faculty and staff by presenting awards and distinctions.

It is not easy to convince managers of a need of a new service innovation. However, students made excellent work in it, on Hanken’s course “Service Design and Innovation”.

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 has been accepted into the Global Business School Network (GBSN), a leading network of over 70 top business schools working to strengthen management education for the developing world.

Hanken har antagits som medlem i Global Business School Network (GBSN), som består av över 70 ledande handelshögskolor och arbetar för att utveckla och stärka ekonomisk-merkantil utbildning i utvecklingsländerna.

Borrow a powerbank from the library.

During Hanken's traditional Christmas coffee in Helsinki 19 December 2017, Rector Karen Spens honoured Hanken faculty and staff by presenting awards and distinctions.

All submitted applications (descriptions) are now available on Hanken's intranet for staff to see and vote for by 10 December 2017.

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!

A great number of Hanken staff turned up on Thursday 20 April as the second coffee break with Rector was arranged in Café Paus in Helsinki.

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.

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

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.

This year's Anders Wall scholarship was awarded to Hanken student and entrepreneur Fredrik Teir.