Danske Bank is the latest company to join the Hanken Partner Programme.
“We want to make students aware of the opportunities available in Danske Bank, where you can grow within diverse roles and explore the different parts of one of the largest Nordic banks,” says Talent Acquisition Partner Bessy Sederlöf.

Time 2 Scale is a project designed to support startups in Finland and the Baltic countries in expanding their operations. Of the first eight Finnish companies that have taken part, more than half have already succeeded in scaling up their business.

This year’s Anders Wall Scholarship has been awarded to Maxine Buchert, founder and CEO of Meridian, a marketing agency specialising in organic growth on social media. The scholarship, worth over 18,000 euros (200,000 SEK), was awarded by Charlotte Wall, chair of the Anders Wall Foundation, at a ceremony in Stockholm 10 March 2026.

The professors of practice at Hanken form an important link between working life and academia. Among them are Juhana Vartiainen and Shadia Rask, who use their different areas of expertise to help students gain a deeper understanding of today’s labour market and societal challenges.

How can institutional investors better balance return targets with solvency risk in an increasingly complex market environment? New research shows that that using advanced cross-prediction methods makes return forecasts more accurate for both stock and bond portfolios and helps improve portfolio design and risk management.

A new doctoral study shows that the sharing economy is shaped by cultural meanings, business model shifts and everyday practices, not only by digital platforms.

En ny doktorsavhandling visar att delningsekonomin formas av kultur, nya affärsmodeller och vardagliga förhållningssätt – inte enbart av digitala plattformar.

The Foundation for Economic Education has granted 120 000 EUR to a new research project at the Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management (CERS) at Hanken School of Economics. The project explores how Nordic firms can strengthen market-centric capabilities critical for scaling innovations internationally.

Can prediction reshape economics? New research shows that prediction is not just a technical exercise, it can transform how we understand and apply economic principles.

Jannica Fagerholm, managing director of the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation and seasoned board professional, has received the award Alum of the Year at Hanken School of Economics.

Hanken School of Economics participated in a training programme organised by THL to strengthen anti-racist practices in the workplace. The aim was to explore proactive measures for preventing racism and eliminating its impacts in their own workplaces.

Är du en internationell studerande på magisternivå, eller har du just blivit klar med dina magisterstudier och vill nu avancera på den finländska arbetsmarknaden? Det här är en utmärkt möjlighet för dig att stärka din professionella expertis inom den finska arbetsmarknaden, bygga nätverk med arbetsgivare och förbättra dina språkkunskaper genom arbetserfarenhet.

Are you an international student in a master's degree program or a recent master’s degree graduate and want to advance your career in the Finnish job market? This is an excellent opportunity to strengthen your professional expertise in Finnish working life, build networks with employers, and improve your language skills through real work experience.

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.

Students and tech enthusiasts gathered at Hanken from 9–11 October 2025 to take part in the Quantum x AI Hackathon. During the event, organised in collaboration with Ultrahack, participants developed tools that converged artificial intelligence, quantum computing, portfolio optimisation, and cybersecurity to shape the future of finance.

Finance Link is the latest company to join Hanken’s partner programme. “I hope the collaboration will lead to recruitment of young talent and strengthen our visibility within Hanken’s network,” says CEO Robert Malmström.

Hanken School of Economics is proud to host the art exhibition I Was Born a Girl by Finnish artist Minna Pietarinen from 19 September to 20 October 2025. The exhibition is part of Hanken’s annual SDG Week, which focuses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Hanken alum Johanna Söderström has built an impressive career as an HR professional in multinational companies such as Dow Chemicals and Tyson Foods. Today, she gives back to Hanken by serving as a strategic advisor to the Rector through the university’s International Advisory Board.

How can we ensure that society continues to function during crises in the future? This is the central question of a new research project in which Hanken School of Economics is participating, together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Policymakers and experts have long criticised the requirement for unanimous agreement in multilateral negotiations, pointing to a tendency for unanimity rule to produce delays and sometimes deadlock. Until recently, this phenomenon has eluded attempts at explanation in terms of rational behavior.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the blockage of the Suez Canal in 2021, and the Russia-Ukraine war are examples of events that have disrupted supply chains. Media is increasingly mentioning how such events fragment the global supply chains, and now new research proves them right. 

New research shows that African governments’ external borrowing can enhance corporate access to capital, not hinder it. The reason is that external debt enhances market confidence. Unlike domestic borrowing, external debt brings fresh capital into the economy, enabling firms, especially listed and internationally active ones, to access financing more easily.

Opening hours of Hanken and different service units in Helsinki and Vaasa during summer 2025.

Once viewed as political propaganda or military deception, disinformation has become a lucrative industrial complex, writes Hanken’s Associate Professor Carlos Diaz Ruiz in a new blog post.

“AI requires a new kind of leadership. The biggest obstacle facing leaders today isn’t technology, it’s the mental models, the outdated ways you think about organisations, leadership and innovations”, stated keynote speaker Petri Kokko at a Hanken Insights event on AI held on 15 May.

The Finnish Innovation Index (FII) 2025 winner is IKEA with top10 including global brands and Finnish icons: Apple, BMW Group, Uber, Marimekko, Fiskars Group, Normal, Samsung, Airbnb, and Lumene. The latest FII results spotlight how innovation, purpose, and growth go hand in hand.

Now is your chance to nominate Alum of the Year 2025 who will be appointed at 7 November 2025 when we celebrate 20 years of Hankendagen and Hanken & SSE.

Over the past three years, researchers at the Hanken School of Economics have received over 1.8 MEUR in support from Finnish foundations for different research projects. Representatives from eleven foundations and funds met with researchers and the university management at Hanken on 4 April 2025, and got a glimpse of current research at the School.

Under de senaste tre åren har forskare på Svenska handelshögskolan (Hanken) fått drygt 1,8 miljoner euro i stöd från finländska stiftelser för olika forskningsprojekt. Representanter från elva stiftelser och fonder sammanstrålade med forskare och universitetsledningen på Hanken 4.4.2025 och bjöds på en presentation av aktuell forskning på högskolan.

The founder of Dermoshop and board professional Henry Backlund has been appointed Executive in Residence at Hanken School of Economics within the Department of Management and Organisation. Backlund is based in Vaasa.

“The Vaasa region boasts a strong entrepreneurial spirit and numerous companies, but engaging students has been somewhat challenging. To address this, the Vaasa Consortium of Higher Education has decided to collaborate on entrepreneurship initiatives to better support and involve students”, says Nina Ingves, operations manager at Hanken Business Lab in Vaasa.

PhD, professor of practice, entrepreneur and board professional, Christina Dahlblom has been appointed Hanken School of Economics’ associate dean focusing on executive education and corporate relations as of 1 March 2025.

New research highlights that workplace safety, tax planning, and trade credit policies are linked to a firm’s core values and beliefs.

The Finnish Bachelor's Graduate Survey is a national survey that collects feedback from new bachelor’s graduates about their bachelor's studies. The results are compared to the national average and this year Hanken scored the best points ever.

“Being prepared and resilient isn't just about facing the worst-case scenarios - preparedness should be part of everyday life”, says Hanken’s Aino Ruggiero, who has been researching citizens' home preparedness, among other topics.

Professor Emeritus Christian Grönroos has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Don Schultz award for Innovation in Teaching, Theory and Practice of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) by the Medill School of Journalism.

For years, being listed on a stock exchange has been seen as a prestigious and beneficial move for companies. Lately, however, there's been a noticeable drop in the number of companies wanting to stay publicly listed. A new study uncovers why some companies are choosing to voluntarily delist.

Hanken School of Economics has been granted over 150,000 euros from the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Ostrobothnia for a research project aimed at developing tourism solutions that are more accessible, sustainable, and community-based. The project's pilot area is the World Heritage site in the Kvarken Archipelago.

Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements with Curtin University in Perth, Australia, Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, INSPER in Sao Paulo, Brasil and IPADE Business School in Monterrey, Mexico.

Marketing communication should not only focus on getting messages across or cutting through noise. A new doctoral thesis shows that the real dynamics of marketing communication require companies and organisations to rethink their strategies and expectations.

As urbanisation and e-commerce reshape our world, Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) has become a critical link in the supply chain and a pivotal sustainability challenge. New research suggests that managers, city leaders, and researchers who focus solely on emissions should rather develop strategies that balance environmental, social, and economic goals and promote collaboration across individual, organisational, and systemic levels.

Hanken School of Economics has started a unique collaboration with Gymnasiet Grankulla Samskola. As part of the pilot course Organising for Sustainable Futures, upper secondary school students are contributing content to an online course that will be offered to Swedish-speaking upper secondary schools around Finland.

Svenska handelshögskolan (Hanken) har startat ett unikt samarbete med Gymnasiet Grankulla samskola. Inom ramen för pilotkursen Organisering för hållbara framtider bidrar gymnasiestuderande med innehåll till en onlinekurs som kommer att erbjudas till gymnasier runtom i Svenskfinland.

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.

At the beginning of November, Hanken School of Economics held a conferment of doctoral degrees and at the same time two jubilee doctors, Alf-Erik Lerviks and Christian Junnelius, were conferred. Here, the jubilee doctors, who graduated 50 years ago, share their recollections from those days.

The higher education institutions in Vaasa are joining forces to develop entrepreneurial activities for higher education students and to increase interest in entrepreneurship. The opening of the joint StartUp space was celebrated on Thursday, 3 October.

Laura Ihanainen, Oskar Korkman and Kevin Deegan have been appointed Professors of Practice at Hanken. They will work with the Department of Marketing from 1 September 2024 until 31 August 2026.

In his doctoral thesis, Alexander Back and co-authors propose and examine new statistical models of financial volatility. The research develops methods that can help practitioners evaluate the risk-profile of companies with an evolving business model or financial structure.

The word innovation suggests the idea of improving the functional or design features of products and services to make brand offerings useful for consumers, but new research reveals another kind of innovations that positively impact consumers’ perceptions of brands.

“In spite of the fact that Finland for several years in a row has been named the “happiest country in the world”, our country faces a number of challenges. One of these challenges is how to adapt to demographic changes, in particular to the aging of the population”, said Rector Ingmar Björkman at the Hanken School of Economics' Opening of the Academic Year ceremony on 2 September 2024.

Hanken School of Economics has been granted over 200,000 EUR by The Finnish Research Impact Foundation (FRIF) for a research project that will involve logistics companies in the development of circular economy business models.

Hanken har beviljats över 200 000 euro av Vaikuttavuussäätiö för ett forskningsprojekt som ska involvera logistikföretag i utvecklingen av affärsmodeller för cirkulär ekonomi.

From 2025, universities will have nine national entrance exams, which will allow applicants to apply for a wide range of different subjects and universities. At the same time, the timetable for the entrance exams will be relaxed so that those selected by certificate-based admissions will no longer have to prepare for and take the entrance exams.

The former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank), Stefan Ingves, sees several global trends affecting the economy that will happen regardless of what we in Finland want and choose. These include climate change, balance changes of financial power with countries growing at different rates, as well as large and growing public debt.

From studying and working as an IT administrator at Hanken to pioneering in options trading and hedge funds. Business angel and board professional Kaj Rönnlund from Vaasa is Alumnus of the Year at Hanken School of Economics.

Opening hours of Hanken and different service units in Helsinki and Vaasa during summer 2024.

Hanken has signed a new student exchange agreement with The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. You can apply for an exchange at this new partner university for Spring semester 2025 when the application is open.

OP Uusimaa is the newest member of Hanken's partner programme. "Hanken is home to the top experts of the future, and we want to be present to increase awareness of the financial sector," says HR Manager Jani Mikanmaa.

Hanken student Robin Perälä was awarded a prize of 5000 euro for his master's thesis "Forecasting Stock Returns with Supervised Learning: The Battle
Against Data Snooping" from Suomen Arvopaperimarkkinoiden Edistämissäätiö.

The student team ‘Hair4you’ from Hanken was one of the top three in the Nordic final of cosmetics company L'Oréal's international marketing competition Brandstorm 2024.

According to the Finnish Innovation Index (FII) BeyondMeat, MeEat and Oatly are the most innovative companies in Finland 2024. The annual FII study, conducted by Hanken School of Economics, lists the most innovative companies and their respective industries according to Finnish consumers.

The global professional services company Reddal is the newest member of Hanken's partner programme. “Linguistic and cultural diversity is important to us, so it is natural that we start a collaboration with Hanken School of Economics”, says Reddal's CEO Per Stenius.

The newly listed financial group Mandatum is a new member of Hanken School of Economics’ partner programme. “Hanken offers a versatile education that goes well with our extensive operations at Mandatum. It's a good match," says Joanna Kivi, Talent acquisition & Employer branding Manager at Mandatum.

"Research Sneak Peek" är ett koncept som vi på CERS utvecklade mot slutet av förra året, 2023, där vi ber våra forskare att tömma lådorna och visa vad de för närvarande arbetar med.

Digital data can help companies improve customer experience and achieve greater growth, but the downside includes data breaches, misuse and employee technostress. How can companies responsibly and transparently collect, use and create value from all available digital data? A new research project at Hanken School of Economics wants to find out.

Students will soon be able to take one entrance exam and use it to apply to several universities and fields of study. The reform will significantly reduce the number of entrance exams. This will make it possible to adjust the schedule of admissions so that those selected through certificate-based admission do not need to prepare for the entrance exams.

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

Several students at Hanken School of Economics have been involved in helping a project for Unicef Finland to investigate how much children's rights are taken into account in Finnish listed companies. Unicef Finland report shows that the majority of companies do not consider or measure their impact on children.

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.

Research Sneak Peek is a concept we at CERS developed at the end of last year, 2023, where we ask our researchers to empty the draws and show what they are currently are working on.

Now is your chance to nominate Alum of the Year 2024 who will be appointed at Hankendagen in Vaasa 22 May 2024.

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.

The space industry is on the rise worldwide, and Hanken School of Economics is aiming to promote Finland's aerospace economy. A new Nordic project intends to increase understanding of the versatile opportunities satellite data offer.

Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements on BSc level with ESSEC Business School in France and University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business in Canada. You can apply for an exchange at these new partner universities for fall semester 2024 no later than 31 January 2024. You will find a short introduction to the new partners below.
More information is also given by Johanna Lilius, Head of International Relations (johanna.lilius@hanken.fi).

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 School of Economics’ project Ostrobothnia Tourism Roadmap 2030 looks at how UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be applied to a regional tourism strategy.

A record number of almost 150 people applied to the 2023 Hanken mentorship programme. Mentor Yrsa Landsdorff and mentee Wilma Leskinen are two of them. The mentorship programme has given Landsdorff valuable insights about the younger generation, and Leskinen has successfully achieved the goal she set herself at the start of the year.

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.

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.

In this CERS blog post, Assistant Professor Mekhail Mustak discusses the importance of adopting a Customer Success Management (CSM) approach.

I detta blogginlägg från CERS diskuterar biträdande professor Mekhail Mustak vikten av att anta en Customer Success Management (CSM)-strategi.

As part of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Hanken & SSE remains the number one Nordic executive education house in the Financial Times rankings.

Vaasa city library is moving to a new library system. The library system is used for managing all library materials, loans, and customer data. Due to the change, all library locations will be closed between May 22 and June 6, 2023. During this period, the online library catalogue will also be unavailable.

The Finnish Innovation Index (FII) is a national indicator of the perceived innovativeness of companies among Finnish consumers. The annual ranking conducted at Hanken School of Economics lists the most innovative companies according to Finnish consumers.

Three student teams from Hanken have participated in the Nordic final of L'Oréal's international marketing competition Brandstorm 28.4.2023. All Hanken teams performed very well among the 8 Nordic teams competing. Team TAL Scentiment from University of Gothenburg won and secured a place in the international final in Paris in June.

In this CERS blog post, Assistant Professor Larissa Becker discusses the problem with the lack of a common definition of Customer Experience (CX), despite it being a buzzword in marketing and service practice.

På CERS blogg diskuterar biträdande professor Larissa Becker problemet med bristen på en gemensam definition av Kundupplevelse (CX), trots att det är ett trendord inom marknadsföring och tjänsteforskning.

“It's been about 15 years since I was at Hanken, and I needed a few more tools in my toolbox. Something tangible since questions around strategy and leadership are coming up in my work daily.” These comments stem from President and CEO of the Ahola Group, Ida Saavalainen, who currently attends the Hanken Executive MBA programme.

“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.

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Mekhail Mustak, has co-written a research paper exploring the threats and opportunities of deepfake technology.

The Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG) is working with the most pressing issues in our world: from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine and the enormous challenges presented by climate change. This week the Institute celebrated its 15th anniversary.

The aim of the Finnish universities is to streamline certificate-based admission and to ensure that the study opportunities are not unnecessarily restricted by subject choices made at general upper secondary level. This would ease the pressures experienced by general upper secondary students. About half of all new university students are admitted on the basis of their certificates.

Hanken has launched a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about how to respond to health emergencies such as COVID-19. On the course, you can learn about COVID-data and models, crisis governance during pandemics, medical supply chains, and how misinformation on social media can be combated.

Hanken student Henrik Helenius has been awarded the Anders Wall scholarship of approximately 20,000 euros for having excelled in entrepreneurship and creative thinking. The scholarship was presented on 10 March 2023 at the Anders Wall Foundation's scholarship award ceremony in Stockholm. Helenius is one of the founders of Droppe, a marketplace that sells supplies to industrial companies.

Now is your chance to nominate Alum of the Year 2023 who will be appointed at Hankendagen in Helsinki 11 May 2023.

Demand for agricultural commodities in the EU are driving land use change in biodiversity-rich countries in for example Africa and Latin America, leading to major biodiversity losses. Hanken School of Economics is part of a large EU-project that aims to generate new knowledge and tools on how to make agrifood systems more sustainable.

PhD Johanna Gummerus has been appointed as the new Professor of Marketing at Hanken School of Economics. Professor Gummerus has a long and warm relationship with Hanken. She graduated from the university in 2011 and enjoys it so much that she has worked here ever since.

Hanken School of Economics (Hanken) has been granted EUR 377 000 through EU funding to focus on the resilience of freight transport networks in Europe.
“Our transport networks have never been so disruptive as they are today. We want to make the networks more resilient and more sustainable for the future”, says assistant professor Sarah Schiffling at Hanken's HUMLOG Institute.

Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements with SKEMA Business School and ESCP Business School in France. Students can apply for an exchange at these new partner universities for autumn semester 2023 no later than 31.01.2023.

Hanken School of Economics has been granted EUR 171 250 through EU funding to investigate how scientific books could become more openly accessible on the internet.
“Free access often results in a huge increase of readers and even citations”, says associate professor Mikael Laakso.

Accenture, one of the world’s largest consultancies, is the latest member to join the Hanken partner programme.
“We hope this cooperation will help us meet interested, inspired and motivated students who could potentially be our colleagues in the future,” says Nina Pyykkönen, Management Consultant at Accenture.

Sustainable digitalization and technological development was the theme of the think tank organized by the university alliance ENGAGE.EU in Mannheim at the end of September. Hanken, a member of the alliance since May, was represented by Associate Professor Mikael Laakso.

“Hanken School of Economics and Aktia have a long shared history, and we are therefore particularly thrilled to continue this collaboration by being Hanken’s new partner company,” says Lotta Borgström, Director of Investor Relations and Communication at Aktia.

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.

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.

It is especially relevant today to consider people experiencing vulnerability during crises. On the Cers blog, Anu Helkkula discusses the importance of including the receivers and their vulnerability experiences in creating helping efforts.

Det är ytterst relevant att idag ta människor som upplever sårbarhet under kriser i beaktan. På Cers-bloggen diskuterar Anu Helkkula vikten av att inkludera mottagarna och deras sårbarhetsupplevelser i att skapa hjälpinsatser.

As part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Hanken & SSE remains the top-ranked Nordic executive education house in all categories in the Financial Times rankings and climbs to position 15 in the world.

We have asked the chair of the Hanken board, Christoph Vitzthum, five questions. Read, among other things, about the direction in which Vitzthum wants to develop Hanken and what strengths he thinks the university has.

How to shape the market for future needs? Is this the end of globalisation? Will it be possible to start an anode material factory in Vaasa? These were topics that were discussed during the annual Hankendagen which was held in Vaasa on 12 May 2022.

The expansion of solar and wind power is well under way, but we still lack large-scale storage options for electrical energy. Green hydrogen is a potential solution, but it requires new business models. Hanken’s research into ecosystems is set to boost the hydrogen economy in Ostrobothnia

Flexible credits, cooperative group work, informal academic culture, and the beauty of winter – four exchange students share their impressions of studying at Hanken during the spring semester.

The universities will decide on the reform of the scoring model for certificate-based admission in 2023. The new model will be introduced in 2026. The aim is also to increase collaboration related to entrance examinations among universities.

Nordea Bank is to begin its first major university collaboration as a new member of the Hanken partner programme. Hanken's international profile and high quality of teaching attracted the cooperation.

It is often assumed in corporate branding research that coherence and consistency are solid principles for a corporate identity. However, many older assumptions are challenged by the realities of our business world that is more diverse than ever. Sonja Sarasvuo who recently defended her doctoral thesis helps contest this fundamental assumption.

Concentration, discussion, inspiration, exchange of ideas – the atmosphere is palpable when you step down into the basement of Hanken in Helsinki. Here is Hanken Business Lab, an innovative incubator with the goal of helping start-ups, growth companies, associations and individuals to grow.

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.

Hanken student Alexander Silén (b. 1994) has been awarded this year´s Anders Wall scholarship of SEK 200,000. Silén receives the scholarship because he has excelled in entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

Who do we want to be as a company? And what do we promise to our stakeholders? These are questions all companies face when they want to express their corporate identity. New research suggests that companies could increase stakeholder identification by involving multiple stakeholders in their branding processes.

Now is your chance to nominate Alumna/Alumnus of the Year 2022 who will be appointed at Hankendagen in Vaasa 12 May 2022.

The HUMLOG Institute at Hanken is a world leader in research in humanitarian logistics, ie how to best reach out with help to people in crisis areas. At a seminar at Hanken 3.3.2022, HUMLOG's experts and researchers commented on the situation in Ukraine and why it would be more effective if the outside world's aid to Ukraine would be monetary rather than sending goods.

Lime Technologies' mission is to recruit more young talent to the IT industry. The company hopes to find new staff members via its partnership with Hanken.

Lime Technologies mission är att rekrytera fler unga till it-branschen. Företaget hoppas hitta nya medarbetare via samarbetet med Hanken.

Remember to download and activate your Break Pro. Break Pro is a free break exercise program that reminds you to take breaks during static work- or study days. Read more here!

Veronica Liljander was a productive and respected professor, researcher, and colleague. She was very involved in teaching and supervised many students on both master's and doctoral level.

Conflicts of interest caused by uneven information are everyday in many high-growth ventures and stock listed companies but many of the problems could be alleviated.

"We have always done it that way" is an expression that Joel Sunabacka, head of the Bank of Åland in Vasa, Hankenalumnus, and winner of the competition Young Leader of the Year in Western Finland, cannot stand.

Dr. Daniel Pasternack has on 1.10.2021 been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken for a period of three years. Pasternack has a background as an entrepreneur and is the CEO of the asset management company Elite Alfred Berg.

KvarkenSat is a joint small satellite between the Ostrobothnian provinces and Västerbotten. It is due to be launched into space in just over a year, with drawings by children and young people on board on the satellite. The small satellite is the result of cooperation across the Kvarken. It also demonstrates that the conquest of space is not just for space superpowers.

Assistant professor Maria Ehrnström-Fuente's current research project "Worlds in transition" focuses on what "economics" really is from an ecological perspective. This was also the starting point for a panel discussion during the Science Carnival in Vaasa on 19.11.2021.

Forskardoktor Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes nuvarande forskningsprojekt ”Världar i omställning” fokuserar på vad ”ekonomi” egentligen är ur ett ekologiskt perspektiv. Det här var också bakgrunden till en paneldiskussion under Vetenskapskarnevalen i Vasa 19.11.2021.

Lifeline Ventures invests two million euros in Hanken Business Lab's member company Mobal. Lifeline Ventures' previous investments include Wolt, Supercell, Smartly and Aiven.

A course ideated, planned and taught by students is currently taking place for the first time in Hanken’s history. The course Sustainable Venture Creation enables students to develop ventures that work towards the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Finnish universities’ vice presidents for education agreed on launching a joint development project to develop student admissions. Entrance examinations will be digitalised, their content developed, and their number significantly reduced. The needs for development were identified jointly by the universities particularly as a result of admissions carried out over the course of the national state of emergency. The development work will be discussed at universities during the autumn.

Many high-tech products contain high-demand metals. These metals are of strategic importance to the world economy but will likely be difficult to access in the future. As critical materials, they are part of society’s critical infrastructure and should therefore be recycled and reused to a greater degree.

Every autumn, a national questionnaire is sent out to all those who have graduated from a university in Finland following up on their careers. According to the latest results, Hanken is placed at the very top by graduates with a master’s degree in business when evaluating their education programmes.

Many members of different societies face inequalities due to their sexual orientation and gender. Despite positive legal changes, the experiences of the LGBTI communities show persistent discrimination.

New digital technologies such as 3D printing, 3D modelling and scanning technologies and AI technologies is changing how designs are created and digitalising thewhole creation process. New research points out that not all works created digitally deserve intellectual property protection in the EU.

How to speed up the growth in Finland? This was discussed at the traditional seminar Toppsemi, which was held at The Swedish School of Economics Hanken in Helsinki on 26 October. "We cannot only distribute the cake, but it must be made to grow, and this requires structural societal reforms that make Finland attractive to investors”, the event's keynote speaker Björn Wahlroos stated.

A supply chain perspective can enable the identification of problems in legal processes, factors that affect public procurement and vulnerabilities in preparedness for cascading disasters. New research examines what a supply chain perspective entails in strictly regulated public services and processes.

The nationwide recommendation for remote work has ended and many workplaces have switched to combining remote work and office work in new ways. Different hybrid models will require more planning by both managers and employees and in some cases also redesigning of the office spaces.

The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland donates 1 000 000 euros to Hanken and the fundraising campaign Count on Hanken. The campaign has now received donations exceeding 2,8 million euros.

How can we create an atmosphere that supports teams to be successful? And how to lead an organisation in the middle of change? These were themes that were discussed at Hankendagen this year. The event was broadcasted from Hanken in Helsinki on 8 October with a record audience.

Hanken School of Economics annually appoints the Alumni of the Year, a Hanken Alumnus/Alumna who has been topical in the past year and has received acknowledgement for their engagement in society. The Alumnus/Alumna has also kept contact with Hanken and shown an interest in the development of Hanken after their graduation. This year, Hanken appointed Heidi Schauman as the Alumna of the Year.

In collaboration with Novia University of Applied Sciences and Vaasa University of Applied Sciences (VAMK), Hanken is currently calling for expressions of interest in developing hydrogen infrastructure in the Ostrobothnia region, as part of the H2 Ecosystem Roadmap. The project, funded by the EU's regional development funds, has been approved by the Regional Council of Ostrobothnia.

Emeritus Professor Christian Grönroos has published a new book on one of the current trends in trade, "Tjänstefiering. I kundens ögon är alla företag tjänsteleverantörer" (”Servicefying. In the customer’s eyes all firms are service providers”, Volante, Stockholm 2021).

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 17 September 2021 Hanken School of Economics arranged an inaugural installation ceremony for three new professors, Mats Ehrnrooth (Management and Organisation), Kaj Storbacka (Hanken Foundation Professor) and Kim Ittonen (Accounting).

The European Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (EURO HOpe) and the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics are organizing the fifth EURO HOpe mini conference in Helsinki, Finland on the 24.-25. November 2021. This year the event will be in hybrid format.

New research shows that a service-providing organisation facilitates the well-being of individuals by supporting, socialising, and empowering them. Technology, service environment and design, and internal practices and arrangements also contribute to the individuals’ well-being.

When Paul Viio, Professor of Practice at Hanken since 15.3.2021, six year ago started to do online courses in the USA, he felt that the field was light years ahead there compared to Finland. However, during the last year, huge steps towards digitalisation has been taken in Finland – sometimes even bigger than necessary.

The Finnish Innovation Index (FII), developed jointly with the Norwegian School of Economics, offers Finnish consumers the opportunity, for the first time, to evaluate the innovativeness of companies selling services and products. The results of the survey were published on a webinar broadcasted from Hanken the 17 June. The event will be annual.

Now is your chance to nominate Alumna/Alumnus of the Year 2021 who will be appointed at Hankendagen in Helsinki 8 October 2021.

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?

Professor Kaj Storbacka is appointed Dean of Executive Education and Corporate Relations at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. In his task Storbacka will be responsible for corporate relations and fundraising.

To freelance alongside paid work is becoming more and more popular. When should one consider delegating the accounting to an agency or consider whether it would be more profitable to establish a company? And what does one have to think of when hiring staff?

Within the agreement between Hanken School of Economics and the Fulbright Center, three US scholars will visit Hanken during spring 2021. Professors Nezih Altay, Brian Gibson and Leigh Anne Liu will conduct research at Hanken and hold a public seminar on their findings. More information about the seminars will be published on Hanken's website during the spring.

In 2017, The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre conducted an audit of Hanken’s quality system and awarded it a quality label that is valid for six years. In February, Hanken signed up for the next national evaluation taking place in 2023.

The topic “Sustainability In The Banking Industry” was of great interest to researchers, alumni and students on Hanken’s Finance Day this year. The annual event was held online for the second consecutive year on 17th March 2021 and fully booked.

The number of bankruptcies last year in Finland was lower than during the years leading up to the crisis. Thus, it has previously been predicted that a wave of bankruptcies could strike in the spring of 2021.

Business decision-makers ranked Hanken & SSE Executive Education number one in many of the criteria in the annual Taloustutkimus' business image survey.

Michael Seelen, 41, graduated from Hanken in Vaasa in 2003 with Computational Finance as his major. Now he lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, where he works as a Director of Risk Management and Data Analysis at Hy Cite Enterprises.

”Med denna text önskar jag dela med mig till dig, läsaren, en del av det jag lärt mig under mitt arbete för min doktorsexamen relaterat till kunder och ekosystem. Den här artikeln handlar också om ord och deras betydelse, särskilt om ord som används jämnt och vars definition vi ofta tar för givet.”

“I share with you, the reader, a part of my journey as I am working on one conceptual paper for my PhD related to customers and ecosystems. This article is also on the meaning of words, especially high-mileage words that we frequently take for granted.”

Last year Hanken committed to be carbon neutral by 2030. As a step towards that goal, Hanken has now compensated for its calculated emissions from 2019.

Quantum is a versatile meeting place that offers access to company and financial databases and allows for the handling of big data. Modern technology makes it possible to stream all classes and other events, as well as allowing for keeping up with real-time financial news. Quantum, made possible by donations, opened in February 2020.

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.

Christina Dahlblom har utsetts till Professor of Practice vid institutionen för företagsledning och organisation från och med den 3 november 2020. Dahlblom vill bidra till att skapa ännu tätare nätverk och dialog mellan Hanken och näringslivet, för att hjälpa Hanken utveckla samarbete, forskning och undervisning som ger mervärde för både Hanken, företag och samhället.

The Board on 20.10.2020 appointed Professor David B. Grant as new Dean of Research and Social Impact at Hanken. His term of office is until 31.7.2021. David B. Grant is Professor of Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility at Hanken.

The Finnish marketing research has evolved from serving the general goal of informing international audiences about the development of Finland, its economy, consumers, and companies.

This year, Hankendagen was held online for the first time with almost 400 participants in the audience. The event was broadcasted from Vasa where the celebration of Hanken Vasa’s 40th anniversary was highlighted throughout the event.

Hanken School of Economics appointed Roger Holm as Alumnus of the Year during the annual homecoming day Hankendagen on 2 October 2020.

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.

Hankens årliga Finance Day genomfördes online i år, med tre talare som presenterade sitt arbete inom ett område som tilldrar sig allt mer uppmärksamhet från både ekonomiforskare och fondförvaltare: faktorinvesteringar.

Hanken’s annual Finance Day moved online this year, with three speakers presenting their work in an area of increasing interest to finance academics and fund managers alike: factor investing.

The coronavirus pandemic has shown that it is possible to work from home five days a week. However, is that ideal? Continued restrictions and the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections could, in many ways, make the autumn at workplaces bleaker than in the spring.

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.

Ny forskning visar att det är viktigt att förstå kundens ekosystem för att kunna erbjuda framgångsrika användarupplevelser inom smarta självbetjäningstjänster, till exempel sportklockor. Ett kundekosystem innefattar alla de faktorer som påverkar kundens upplevelse och det kan vara individuellt, varumärkesbaserat eller socialt drivet.

Vi övergår från den dominerande Budskapslogiken till en reviderad logik: Lärandelogiken.

We will move from the dominant message logic to a revised logic of learning.

During the last three weeks in an ongoing covid pandemic, millions of people across the US and worldwide have taken to the streets and raised their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd by a policeman. Solidarity protests also took place in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku voicing issues of inequality, discrimination, and unequal justice.

CEOs are more likely to be fired when their firms are involved in ESG (“Environmental, Social, and Governance”) related misconduct, writes Niclas Meyer in a blog post on the Hanken Research blog.

Here you'll find the service available at Hanken in Helsinki and Vaasa during summer 2020.

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.

Hur kan vi öka hållbarheten i slutskedet av leveranskedjan? Kan innovationer både minska de negativa effekterna av e-handel och samtidigt skapa effektiva leveranssystem för konsumenter. Hanken koordinerar ett nordiskt forskningsprojekt som fokuserar på de här frågorna.

Hanken ranks at top among Finnish universities in U-Multirank, for research citation rate, top cited publications, and international student mobility.

The HUMLOG Institute is coordinating a research project where the researchers are investigating how different countries have handled the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic impact and how to tackle social media disinformation.

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.

Open access (OA) är ett nytt sätt att dela forskningsresultat öppet på nätet, i motsats till traditionella prenumerationsbaserade publikationer. En ny studie tyder på att de flesta förlag som publicerar oberoende akademiska OA-tidskrifter och OA-tidskrifter på kinesiska inte kan förlita sig på enbart artikelbearbetningsavgifter och måste därför hitta en långsiktig lösning för att överleva och utvecklas.

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the role of customers in business. It has become dramatically clear to many that without customers there is no business. Now when everything is upside down it is timely and relevant to reflect on this old but fundamental issue. Not that managers would not know it, in principle.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected economics on all levels in society. In order to ensure a more resilient and flexible society in the future it’s important for countries not to isolate themselves, but rather to take global regulatory actions through international agreements and that applies as much to fighting pandemics and climate change, said Topi Miettinen, Professor at Hanken School of Economics, during an online event at Hanken.

All of us have heard this several times: robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will replace many of us, and this also goes for service employees who used to have face-to-face interaction with customers.

The history of training and development research goes as far back as the early 20th century but new perspectives are needed. A new study gives tools to improve planning and delivering training programmes.

Hanken & SSE remains the top-ranked Nordic school in all categories in the annual Financial Times rankings as a part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)

"Stockmann's is always Stockmann's" was the famous department store slogan in the 1950s. New research shows that Stockmann’s introduced marketing thought in Finland even before marketing was established as an own discipline.

Have you ever heard about a smartphone app from a friend and thought that it sounds great, you must download that, too? There are several ways for customers to experience smartphone apps, some of which can be surprising for app developers.

Har du hört en vän tala om en smarttelefonapp och tyckt att den låtit så bra, att du också måste ladda ner den? Kunder erfar smarttelefonappar på många olika sätt, och vissa kan vara överraskande för apputvecklare.

This year’s Anders Wall scholarship is awarded to Hanken student Simon Karlsson. The scholarship of 125 000 SEK is one of the biggest ones awarded to a student at Hanken.

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

Two leading players join forces to accelerate organisational and professional growth

Senior Fellows of CERS will strengthen CERS’ international research initiatives and also be involved in doctoral supervision.

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

Hanken School of Economics students participated in a rating survey in which they assessed Hanken’s positive impact on the world. According to the students, Hanken is well on its way towards achieving positive societal impact.

Today’s business world is faced with continuous turbulence, and decision-making in the incalculable environment is even more complicated than before. Hanken trains its students to work-life challenges in tight collaboration with the business world.

Students become real life CEO’s, project managers and consultants in the Entrepreneurship and Management course Business Consulting.

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 has a new model for teaching awards. It is a unique comprehensive model, which is about encouraging, rewarding and acknowledging quality in teaching.

Hanken Executive MBA graduate Päivi Koivisto has been working in corporate sustainability for more than 20 years. She’s seen the field grow from a fringe function into one an increasing number of companies are putting at the core of their strategies. We spoke to her about the change.

Rector Karen Spens has today signed a contract stating that Hanken School of Economics will hereby become a shareholder of Funidata Oy, a university owned company who is currently developing the Sisu support tool system for university education.

The impact of policies on quantity and quality of entrepreneurship in a country depends on the informal rules of society, e.g. culture of not registering business activities, in that specific country, concludes Ashkan Mohamadi in his doctoral thesis.

Professor Emerita Mary Jo Bitner from Arizona State University will be conferred as Honorary Doctor of Hanken, at the Solemn Conferment of Degrees on 25 October 2019.

Hanken har lanserat en hållbarhetstävling där olika team utmanas i hållbarhetsaktiviteter. Tävlingen pågår mellan 9.9-3.11.2019.

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

What constitutes relevant leadership in our data-driven, fast-moving world? Seeing the individual is crucial to being relevant as a leader and relevant leadership is crucial to the success of the company, claimed Ann Hellenius at the seminar.

Trainers’ House help companies through changes. Within the collaboration with Hanken, Trainers’ House can offer students part time jobs, among other things.

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.

Hanken School of Economics appointed president and CEO Christoph Vitzthum as Alumnus of the Year during the annual homecoming day Hankendagen on 27 September 2019.

Academic Work is the latest member of Hanken’s Partner Programme. As Branding Partner, and recruitment and staffing company, Academic Work aims to be a career partner for Hanken students.

Professor Du is starting a new project examining how companies should revise their corporate social responsibility strategies and programs to address the challenges in the age of artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence for the growth agenda was one of the themes on Hanken's International Alumni Day in Stockholm in May.

Several CERS Hanken researchers have gained prizes in QUIZ16 conference in Karlstad, Sverige, in June 2019.

Hanken & SSE Executive Education continues to top the rankings in Northern Europe 2019 as a part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

The Library has moved into Koha – an open source Integrated Library System.

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.

Digital technologies increasingly impact the way we think, feel and behave.

The Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) works to increase the quantity and quality of economic education and training in Finland, as well as promote cooperation between economics and other academic fields.

By matching foreign students with mentors at local companies, the Hanken International Talent initiative is a win-win for business in Finland.

Institutions of higher education and student associations consider it a necessary investment in the future to increase contributions to higher education, research and skills during the next government term.

This year’s Anders Wall scholarship is awarded to Hanken student Frans Westerlund. The scholarship of 125 000 SEK is the biggest one awarded to a student at Hanken. The award ceremony takes place 11.3.2019 at the concert house in Stockholm.

Kun Huang received the European International Women Leadership Award 2019 in the European Parliament in honour of International Women’s Day in Brussels.

Kun Huang mottog European International Women Leadership Award 2019-priset i Europaparlamentet i samband med internationella kvinnodagen i Bryssel.

Jannica Fagerholm as Chairman of the Board at Hanken has a strong feeling of commitment. She wants to work for a Hanken that’s an internationally strong leader within its research areas.

Hanken’s four new Areas of Strength are Competition Economics and Service Strategy, Financial Management, Accounting and Governance, Responsible Organising, and Leading People for Growth and Well-being.

Since the beginning of February, Hanken Executive Education in Vaasa is an integral part of Hanken & SSE Executive Education, after having been part of Hanken School of Economics for 30 years.

Financial modelling is the art of searching for the best quantitative solution to the problem. Since the stock market crash of October 1987, modelling implied volatility increasingly became a non-trivial issue.

Finansiell modellering handlar om att hitta den bästa kvantitativa lösningen till ett problem. Sedan börskraschen i oktober 1987 har forskare och experter försökt modellera implicit volatilitet för optionsvärdering och säkring.

Hanken has expressed an opinion on the draft for a new financing model for higher education institutions, which would apply from 2021. Hanken delivered the opinion to the Ministry of Education and Culture.

The City of Helsinki rewarded Salla Hyytiäinen, alumni from the Department of Management and Organisation, for her Master’s thesis 12.12.2018.

Salla Hyytiäinen, som nyligen utexaminerats från institutionen för företagsledning och organisation, tilldelades ett pris av Helsingfors stad för sin magisteravhandling 12.12.2018.

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”.

What is a service? Or what does service do for the customers?

It is widely acknowledged that strategic performance measurement systems play an important role for businesses. The design of performance measurement systems can have an impact on corporate profitability, giving businesses a competitive advantage.

CERS’ new MOOC “Principles of Service Management” has so far attracted almost 1000 students from 118 countries all over the world.

Three new professors have started working for Hanken: Petra Sund-Norrgård, David Grant and Ari Hyytinen. The inaugural installation lectures are held during Hanken Research Day on 14 November 2018.

Hanken School of Economics appointed management consult Mikael Still as Alumnus of the Year during the annual homecoming day Hankendagen on 12 October 2018.

Read the summary from the Academic Council meeting on 3 October 2018

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.

Since the beginning of September, the triple crown accredited (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS) Hanken Executive MBA (EMBA) programme is an integral part of Hanken & SSE Executive Education.

CERS director, Professor Kristina Heinonen has received the Journal of Services 2018 Highly Commended Award.

The Finnish Service Alliance awarded Dr Lotta Vuoristo the Best Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award in May 2018.

The Finnish Service Alliance har i maj 2018 tilldelat ED Lotta Vuoristo priset för Årets bästa doktorsavhandling.

Professor Nari Lee and Dr Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes have been granted extensive funding from the Academy of Finland for their respective research projects.

The Best Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award has been granted to D. Sc. (Econ.) Lotta Vuoristo, by the Finnish Service Alliance, in May 2018. CERS warmly congratulates Lotta and interviews her about her work.

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Hanken & SSE Executive Education is still number one in Northern Europe as a part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

Hanken has received four financial information terminals from Infront Finance. The terminals serve as investment tools to both private and professional investors and can be used by Hanken’s staff and students.

Hanken has received four financial information terminals from Infront Finance. The terminals serve as investment tools to both private and professional investors and include global market data.

My Research is a series of articles presenting the work of doctoral students, working at CERS, Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management at Hanken School of Economics.

My Research is a series of articles presenting the work of doctoral students, working at CERS, Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management at Hanken School of Economics.

Read the summary of the Academic Council meeting 7 March 2018.

This year’s Anders Wall scholarship is awarded to Hanken student William von der Pahlen. The scholarship of 125 000 SEK is the biggest one awarded to a student at Hanken. The award ceremony will take place later today in Stockholm.

The investigation on the administrative and supporting functions at Hanken is ongoing and the process will continue throughout spring 2018.

One of CERS' most long-term researchers, and a strong constructor and upholder of our research center for service and relations marketing, Professor Tore Strandvik is retiring.

The Partner Programme at Hanken got yet another member as JAM Advisors joined the group of Branding Partners. Hanken now has a total of 16 partner corporations to strengthen the connection between Hanken and the corporate world.

Hanken now offers a member of the Hanken faculty or staff the possibility to take part in the Hanken Executive MBA programme that starts in March 2018. The deadline for applications has been extended to 16 February 2018.

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

Under Hankens traditionella julkaffe i Helsingfors den 19:e december 2017 uppmärksammade rektor Karen Spens högskolans personal genom premieringar och utmärkelsetecken.

At CERS, we have a light, white corner room with big windows that open to the neighbouring playschool’s yard. This fall a visiting researcher Stephane Thion from Toulouse, France, has been working in the corner room.

The Finnish campaign Vaihtoehto Eskolle aims at increasing the Finns’ knowledge about researcher’s in the country. Hanken takes part in the campaign.

Associate Professor Mikael Laakso, Information System Science, has been appointed to the European Commission's Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication.

It is a well-known fact that customer relationships are important for companies. A recent study challenges the current reciprocal view on customer relationships.

Kundrelationer är erkänt viktiga för företagen. En färsk studie utmanar de befintliga teorierna där kundrelationen anses vara ett samspel mellan kunden och företaget och inte en process som pågår hos kunden helt oberoende av företaget.

Hanken School of Economics appointed film producer Annika Sucksdorff as Alumnus of the Year during the annual homecoming day Hankendagen on 13 October 2017.

Qingbo Xu from China and Shekhar Acharya from Nepal are at Hanken for a two-month internship to cap off the integration programme Business Lead.

Recent doctoral thesis shows, that the effect of non-practicing entities is not as negative as previous debate alleges.

CERS younger researcher Michaela Lipkin was awarded the Emerald Literati Highly commended prize from her single authored paper, published in the Journal of Service Management.

Kristina Heinonen, Professor of Service and Relationship Marketing, will be a visiting researcher at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA during spring 2018.

Hanken & SSE Executive Education has appointed Marc Hinnenberg as new Chief Executive Officer.

Hanken researcher Peter Sarlin is member of the world-first global project to analyse high frequency financial data. The project team consists of researchers from the UK, France, Germany, Finland and the US.

Financial Times rankings 2017: Hanken & SSE Executive Education is still the Nordic champion in its field as part of Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) while advancing its position in the global ranking.

Hanken has received a donation of 100 000 euros from Aktia Bank Plc to the ongoing fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS. Aktia wants to support the continuous development of internationally competitive and high-quality education and research.

Hanken participates in a two-year project that focuses on smart energy systems and solutions (Smart Grids). The Council of Ostrobothnia has granted the project funding and the overall budget is EUR 900 000. The University of Vaasa leads the project.

On 7 February 2017 a new multi-company initiative started in Singapore that mixes business, academic knowledge and technology in a completely new way.

The Hanken-Kauppalehti Inspiration Award was presented to the start-up company for VIP-services, Helsinki Concierge, in connection with the Hanken Business Forum event.

The Hanken foundation 'Stiftelsen Svenska handelshögskolan' has decided to award the following persons for their publications 2016

Stiftelsen Svenska handelshögskolan har slagit fast de personer som premieras för vetenskapliga artiklar.

Hanken School of Economics annually appoints the Alumnus of the Year, who has been recognised for activities in society during the year.

Hanken invested in efficient self-service in the library - Your task is to borrow the books at the machine.

M.Sc. and M.Sc. Tech. Anu Torkkeli defends her doctoral thesis in Commercial Law.

SSE Executive Education continues to maintain its position in the ranking as the top executive education provider.

M.Soc.Sc. Annikki Roos defends her doctoral thesis in Information systems science.

Hanken & SSE Executive Education debuts integration program Business Lead 2016

Hanken's researchers successful in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence

Hankens forskare framgångsrika i 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence