When Hanken alum Marcus Räder realised that companies renting out holiday properties lacked the right technology, he sensed a business opportunity. Together with two co-founders, he created Hostaway, which has since grown into a billion-euro company with operations around the world.

When Patrick Lapveteläinen began his studies in finance and investments at Hanken School of Economics in 1986, Finland was undergoing a period of major transformation. Capital markets were opening up, interest rates were deregulated and the financial sector was being entirely reshaped.

Associate Professor Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes from Hanken School of Economics will take part in Wasa Teater’s Kunskapskabarén, a unique concept where improvisational theatre meets academic research. She will speak during two different performances in early November at Wasa Teater.

Professor Vlad Vaiman from the School of Management of California Lutheran University in the USA is visiting Hanken during autumn (Nov-Dec) and spring (March-April) as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics. He will be working at the Department of Management and Organisation.

Professor Vlad Vaiman från School of Management vid California Lutheran University i USA gästar Hanken under hösten (nov-dec) och våren (mars-april) som Fulbright Distinguished Chair i ekonomi. Han kommer att vara verksam vid institutionen för företagsledning och organisation.

The University of Mannheim offers a workshop series that aims to equip participants with evidence-based knowledge and practical tools to manage
their mental health effectively. Hanken staff and students are welcome to join online for free!

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.

Hanken alum Yesmith Sánchez started working for the DEI consultancy company Inklusiiv four years ago when diversity, equity, and inclusion issues were not spoken of broadly in Finland. Since then, Sánchez has been very busy helping a lot of organisations build more diverse, inclusive and equitable workplaces.

Bloomberg returns with a pop-up training session on Wednesday, April 9th! The training will take place at Quantum Helsinki at 14:00-15:30 and is open to all Hanken students and researchers. The session will also be shared online through Teams!

Suomen Ekonomit has rewarded Faiyaz Khan for useful tips for students writing their master’s thesis. Khan studied management and organisation at Hanken and graduated 2024.

Finlands Ekonomer har belönat Faiyaz Khan för användbara tips till studenter som skriver sin pro gradu-avhandling. Khan studerade företagsledning och organisation vid Hanken och utexaminerades 2024.

Johanna Karanko and Nicola Lindertz are Hanken alumni who both became ambassadors. Karanko is currently stationed in Brazil while Lindertz serves in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Among other things, they are working to promote the interests of Finnish companies and they have recognised many business opportunities in South America.

Post-pandemic work life has proved challenging for human beings, with disengagement, burn-outs, bore-outs, quiet quitting and great resignations, especially among the youngest workers

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.

Join us at Hanken School of Economics for a week dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)!

There are many similarities in the lives of Hanken alumni Filip and Erik Riska: the brothers both studied commercial law at Hanken in Vaasa, they have a degree in teaching, both have had successful hockey careers, and they even prefer to spend their free time together.

In our new Alumni interview series, we meet Martina Abrahamsen, who has worked in the banking industry for 17 years. Her career has taken her via Frankfurt and Paris to Zug in Switzerland, where she has now been working for six years. Throughout her career, Martina has found that her Hanken degree has given her a solid foundation and many useful skills.

I den nya serien Alumnintervju träffar vi den här gången Martina Abrahamsen, som jobbat i bankbranschen i 17 år. Hennes karriär har tagit henne via Frankfurt och Paris till Zug i Schweiz där hon nu jobbat i sex år. Genom hela sin karriär har hon haft nytta av sin examen från Hanken som gett henne en stabil grund och många nyttiga färdigheter.

In our new article series Alumni Interview, we meet Hanken alumni from all over the world to hear what they have been up to after graduation. This time we met up with Nina Fagerholm, whose workplace for the past five years has been the Royal Palace in the heart of Stockholm!

Hanken School of Economics' new strategy, Hanken 2030 - For an international Finland and a sustainable world, has been approved by the Board of Hanken on 13 December 2023.

Svenska handelshögskolans nya strategi, Hanken 2030 - För ett internationellt Finland och en hållbar värld, har godkänts av styrelsen 13.12.2023.

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!

Limiting global warming requires reducing substantially the greenhouse gases that our economies emit, particularly the emissions of firms driving economic activity. The European Union committed to reduce emissions down to net zero by 2050 and Finland by 2035. Meeting these commitments requires continued actions of governments and firms, but also of financial actors.

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.

”Så har vi alltid gjort”. Det är ett uttryck som Joel Sunabacka, direktör på Ålandsbanken, Hankenalumn och vinnare i Årets unga ledare-tävlingen i Västra Finland, inte kan tåla.

Emeritus professor Niklas Bruun har redigerat en ny bok som utreder arbetsgivares respektive arbetstagares rätt till prestationer som åtnjuter immaterialrättsskydd som till exempel patentskyddade uppfinningar, upphovsrättsligt skyddade verk eller nyskapade mönster.

Big questions such as decolonization, the relevance of research to the global south, and the future of work, were on the agenda of the fourth Responsible Organising conference, held at Hanken on the 28th of April.

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.

The podcast which was launched last autumn returns with many exciting and invigorating conversations on how to make our world more sustainable.

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?

Allt fler väljer att frilansa vid sidan av lönearbetet. När lönar det sig att delegera sin bokföring till en byrå eller fundera på om det skulle vara lönsammare att grunda ett eget företag? Och vad måste man tänka på när det blir aktuellt för ett företag att anställa personal?

The fifth and last blog post in the blog series is out! The blog post is written by the team representing Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Team Los Andes was the winning team of the entire competition.

The fifth and last blog post in the blog series is out! The blog post is written by the team representing Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Team Los Andes was the winning team of the entire competition.

The fourth input in our blog series is out! This week, Team_WU from Vienna University of Economics and Business presents their Sars Cov2 Testing Solution in Vienna, Austria.

The fourth input in our blog series is out! This week, Team_WU from Vienna University of Economics and Business presents their Sars Cov2 Testing Solution in Vienna, Austria.

The third input in our blog series is out! This week, Team Houston from University of Houston, Texas presents their solution on PPE Shortage Solution in Harris County.

The third input in our blog series is out! This week, Team Houston from University of Houston, Texas presents their solution on PPE Shortage Solution in Harris County.

The second input in our blog series is out! This week, Team_QUT from Queensland University of Technology presents their solution on Electronic Waste Solution in Colombia.

The second input in our blog series is out! This week, Team_QUT from Queensland University of Technology presents their solution on Electronic Waste Solution in Colombia.

Today starts a blog series including 5 articles presenting the results of the science competition organised by the Global Business School Network and the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics: The HUMLOG Challenge. Each of the posts will be published in Friday afternoon weekly.

Today starts a blog series including 5 articles presenting the results of the science competition organised by the Global Business School Network and the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics: The HUMLOG Challenge. Each of the posts will be published in Friday afternoon weekly.

Leadership is about vision, common sense and focusing on achieving something; however, leadership ultimately is about people. That is why it is good to spend time with people from different backgrounds - you always learn something new from them, said Helsinki Mayor and Honorary Doctor at Hanken, Jan Vapaavuori, in his speech to Hanken students on 9 October 2020.

Consumers' choices will have a strong impact on the future development in society. It is, however, still too early to say which of the changes in behavior caused by the corona pandemic will persist. This was stated by the panelists in the discussion "Sustainable Strategies in Turbulent Times - Key Factors for Renewal", which was broadcasted online from Hanken on 11 November.

Konsumenternas val kommer att inverka starkt på den kommande samhällsutvecklingen. Det är ändå för tidigt att säga vilka av de förändringar i människornas beteende som coronapandemin gett upphov till som består. Det konstaterade paneldeltagarna i diskussionen ”Sustainable Strategies in Turbulent Times – Key Factors for Renewal”, som sändes online från Hanken den 11 november.

This summer Hanken School of Economics will launch 15 exclusive episodes in a podcast series where researchers at Hanken talk about their research. The first episode is out 7.7.2020.

Hanken School of Economics has been selected as one of the 21 universities globally, and the only Nordic university, to participate in the Aiming higher series, made by BBC StoryWorks.

Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan har blivit utvald som ett av de 21 universitet globalt och enda nordiska universitetet, som deltar i serien Aiming Higher som görs av BBC StoryWorks.

October 2019 Hanken School of Economics celebrated its 110th anniversary and conferred 47 doctoral degrees and ten honorary doctorates at the Solemn Conferment of Doctoral Degrees on 25 October 2019.

Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan firade 110 år och promoverade 47 promovender och tio hedersdoktorer i samband med den högtidliga doktorspromotionen fredagen den 25 oktober 2019.

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.

Hur ser Hankens första MOOC ut? Hur är det att ha en kurs med studerande från 126 olika länder? Är det värt att göra en MOOC? Hur ser processen för att skapa en MOOC ut? Vem behövs i teamet? - Det får du veta 17.12

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.

Tre nya professorer har börjat sitt värv vid Hanken: David Grant, Ari Hyytinen och Petra Sund-Norrgård. Installationsceremonin för dessa tre hålls i samband med Hanken Research Day 14.11.2018.

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.

Hanken lanserar i höst sin första MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), dvs. en storskalig, öppen och nätbaserad kurs. Pionjären inom tjänstemarknadsföring, professor emeritus Christian Grönroos, inleder med kursen Principles of Service Management.

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.

The Fulbright institute now accepts applications for summer 2018 Study of the United States Institutes- programmes. Application deadline is 21.11.2017 at 10 a.m.

Communication Clinic that takes place in the Skills Lab in the library is meant to provide personalized support to better the business communication skills in English of the students.

Publication Forum (in Finnish: JUFO) is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research output and operates under the auspices of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV).

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

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

On 25 November the new GODESS research institute was launched. GODESS stands for Gender, Organisation, Diversity, Equality and Social Sustainability in Transnational Times.

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

Här några tips på databaser för höstens kurser och för internationell personal som vill följa med nyheterna i hemlandet.

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.