The Centre for Languages and Business Communication at Hanken is known for its diverse and high-quality language teaching. One example is the course Creative Community Engagement, where students volunteer in the local community while practising their communication skills in situations that cannot be recreated in a classroom..

A group of researchers has got funding for examining equality as a work-life skill. The aim is to enhance work meaningfulness, develop skills, diminish language barriers, and to ensure fair recruitment.

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.

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

Personal mentorship from PVH Corp's (Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) CEO and Hanken alum Stefan Larsson, a week at the company’s headquarters in New York City and a behind-the-scenes visit to Calvin Klein's show during New York Fashion Week. These are just a few of the experiences that the Dare to Dream scholarship recipients Aileen Ahlskog and Anna Hägerström have enjoyed over the past year.

“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.

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.

Hanken har signerat avtal om studentutbyte med Curtin University i Australien (Perth), INSPER i Brasilien (Sao Paulo), Faculty of Business Administration vid Université Laval i Kanada (Québec) och IPADE Business School i Mexiko (Monterrey).

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.

I takt med att urbanisering och e-handel omformar vår värld har så kallade last-mile-leveranser blivit en kritisk länk i leveranskedjan och en central hållbarhetsutmaning. Ny forskning föreslår att ledare och forskare bör utveckla strategier som inte bara fokuserar på utsläpp, utan också balanserar miljömässiga, sociala och ekonomiska mål, samt främjar samarbete på individ-, organisations- och systemnivå.

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.

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

The studies at Hanken are international in many ways, not least thanks to the unique mandatory exchange semester for all bachelor-level students. Meet four students who are on exchange in different parts of the world during the spring semester 2024.

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.

Hanken student Sebastian Mellblom has been awarded the €20,000 Anders Wall Scholarship, which was presented at the Anders Wall Foundation's scholarship ceremony in Stockholm on 8 March in the presence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

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!

Top Finnish design from the 1950s, carefully thought-out lighting, colours and soft flooring for a friendly and cozy atmosphere, and beautiful windows bringing natural light and the city outside into the rooms. The Hanken building in Helsinki was created by a dream team, says Päivi Helander, an Olof Ottelin researcher and one of the guides when Hanken participated in Helsinki Design Week.

Helsinki Design Week is the largest design and architecture festival in the Nordic countries and takes place 8-17.9.2023. The programme offers over 100 events and for the first time Hanken's main building is also part of the festival.

Opening hours of Hanken and different service units in Helsinki and Vaasa during summer 2023.

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.

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

Kaisa Penttilä, PhD candidate and project co-leader for Hanken´s project H2 Ecosystem Roadmap for Ostrobothnia, visited Chile as a part of the International Urban and Regional Cooperation program (IURC Latin America) in the beginning of November.

Responsible investment has traditionally mainly focused on environmental issues, but the social responsibility dimension is becoming increasingly important. The war in Ukraine and the pandemic may be a contributing factor, says Emilia Vähämaa, Wärtsilä Associate Professor at the Hanken School of Economics.

Hanken School of Economics' new initiative, Hanken Venture Studio, aims to create around 20 new companies within the next two years. The project is being partly funded by the City of Helsinki's Campus Incubators programme.

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.

Opening hours of Hanken and different service units in Helsinki and Vaasa during summer 2022.

Did you know that Hanken's cutting-edge research is strongly related to sustainability? Hanken Research Day on 24 May presented examples of how the business school works with issues concerning the impact of business and economy on society. The participants got to take part of top research on responsible investments, equity in educational opportunities, sustainable transports, and green hydrogen.

Visste du att Hankens spetsforskning är starkt relaterad till hållbarhet? På Hanken Research Day 24 maj presenterades exempel på hur handelshögskolan arbetar med frågor gällande ekonomins inverkan på samhället. Deltagarna fick ta del av toppforskning om ansvarsfulla investeringar, jämlika utbildningsmöjligheter, hållbara transporter och grön vätgas.

The library will start its summer opening hours 1st of June 2022.

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.

PhD Martin Fougère has been appointed professor in management and politics at Hanken School of Economics.

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.

According to a recent survey, the students at Hanken are satisfied with the remote teaching and how they are progressing in their studies, but many long to return to the classrooms. The results show that students at Hanken feel better than the recent alarm reports about students' deteriorating well-being in Finland would suggest.

KvarkenSat är en gemensam liten satellit mellan de österbottniska landskapen och Västerbotten. Den ska skjutas upp i rymden om drygt ett år, med teckningar av barn och ungdomar ombord på satelliten. Småsatelliten är resultatet av ett samarbete över Kvarken. Den visar också att erövringen av rymden inte bara är något för rymdsupermakter.

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.

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.

Thousands of Swedish-speaking Finns are active in Stockholm's business life. However, many of them don’t know about each other, even though a good network in this community would make it easier to cope with the competition in the city and also support Finnish companies to establish themselves there. This is something that the new network FIKSA – Finnish Contacts in Stockholm's Business Life aims to offer.

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.

This year, Helsinki Mayor Juhana Vartiainen opens the new academic year at Hanken School of Economics on 1 September 2021 with a greeting from the City of Helsinki. Universities have a major role to play in supporting the development of our capital. Hanken and the City of Helsinki can work together to make both the city and Finland even more attractive.

Rasmus Öhman, 28, graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in accounting from Hanken in Helsinki. He continued to Aalto University where he became a Master of Economics in 2019. Since October 2019, he has been working at Deloitte AG in Zurich.

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.

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?

According to Hanken School of Economics' recent survey, millennials and women have an important role to play in making responsible investments increasingly common.

Unequal access to drinking water in different geographical contexts is embedded in political, racialized, classed, and gendered hierarchies. Technologies and innovations aimed at solving drinking water problems only tend to gloss over the bigger issues.

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?

Johanna Karanko, 52, graduated from Hanken in Helsinki in 1993 with Management and Organisation as her major. Since September 2018, she has been working as Finland's Consul General in Hong Kong.

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.

Political discussions about whether to merge Hanken in Vaasa with Åbo Akademi University or with the University of Vaasa have been ongoing ever since Hanken in Vaasa was established in 1980. Today Sören Kock, dean and rector’s representative in Vaasa, sees the possibility of Hanken in Vaasa remaining as Hanken in a positive light. “I find it fascinating that a Triple-Crown accredited university manages to operate in two locations,” Kock remarks.

In a new conversational podcast, “Sustainability Unwrapped”, researchers from Hanken School of Economics turn to experts outside the academia in order to come up together with solutions to how the world could be made sustainable. The first two episodes were out in the beginning of this week with new episodes every Monday. Two episodes every week will be released until the mid of December.

Around 350 new students started their studies at Hanken in Helsinki and Vasa on 24 August 2020. This time, the start of the academic year is in many ways different compared to previous years due to the corona situation.

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.

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.

The growing importance of ESG data for financial decision making and for achieving sustainability goals was the topic of a webinar hosted by Hanken School of Economics on 11.6.2020. The speakers called for increased standardisation, transparency, availability and reliability of sustainability data in the face of pressing climate and environmental demands.

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.

The Helsinki GSE Situation Room states in its latest report that the largest drop in salary amount in April was in Kouvola, Vaasa and Helsinki. The report is presented at an open access webinar in Zoom on Thursday 4 June at 8 am.

På grund av det rådande pandemiläget och den inverkan det haft på Finlands ekonomi vill Hanken erbjuda möjligheten till gratis utbildning i ekonomi också för andra än våra examensstudenter.

The Library in Helsinki offers limited lending service starting on May 14th. Vaasa City Library offers limited lending service starting on May 11th.

New research discusses that the politics put forth in times of disaster tend to represent the interests of the powerful actors, rather than those of the marginalized people worst affected by the disaster.

Enligt ny forskning tenderar den politik som förs i katastroftider att representera de mäktiga samhällsaktörernas intressen snarare än de marginaliserade människor som drabbats värst av en katastrof.

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

Many alumni remember the IT Services in Hanken’s cellar as a somewhat frowzy dark place filled with it-scrap. Hanken Business Lab and Markus Wartiovaara changed all that three years ago. The Hanken Magazine met an alumnus who got on well in the incubator.

Hanken's second Sustainable Development Goals week will be held from November 19th to 26th in Helsinki and Vaasa, with the aim of mobilising students, staff and members of public to board on a collective journey towards achieving the global goals. All events and exhibitions are free of charge and most of them are open to all!

I år ordnades Hanken Research Day samma dag som Forskarnas natt, ett europeiskt evenemang som handlar om att föra forskare och allmänheten närmare varandra.

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.

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.

Hanken School of Economics’ library services in Vaasa will move from the Tritonia library to the City Library starting from 1.1.2020. With the move, all library services will be offered a stone's throw away from Hanken.

Hanken is co-establishing Kvarken Space Center together with nine other universities and institutions in Sweden and Finland. The University of Vaasa is leading the project.

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.

Virpi Sorsa and Jouni Virtaharju investigate how the employees at the City of Helsinki have experienced the remodelling of the organization two years ago.

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

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

Hanken researchers Virpi Sorsa and Jouni Virtaharju were granted 260 000€ for the research project “Ethnographic research about the leadership system’s reform in the City of Helsinki 2018-2020”.

Hankenforskarna Virpi Sorsa och Jouni Virjaharju har beviljats finansiering på drygt 260 000 euro för projektet ”Ethnographic research about the leadership system’s reform in the City of Helsinki 2018-2020”.

Hanken's Rector Karen Spens stated in her speech that internationalisation and continuous learning are at the core of the activities at Hanken in the years to come. Chairman of the board Björn Wahlroos was awarded Hanken's medal of gold.

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

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.

Reverse Shots is a pictorial project by Mexican artist Jose Antonio Ochoa exhibited at Hanken in Helsinki for a week beginning on 25 September. Ochoa will be present at the exhibition on 28 September at 12-14 to meet with students and staff.

Reverse Shots är ett bildprojekt av den mexikanska konstnären Jose Antonio Ochoa. Verken ställs ut på Hanken i Helsingfors 25.9-29.9.2017. Ochoa finns på plats vid utställningen 28.9 kl.12-14 för att träffa studenter och personal.

Hanken renews the admission to the BSc programme in 2018 and is the first Finnish university to admit students based on the Swedish national university aptitude test (Swe. Högskoleprovet).

The Academy of Finland has decided to grant funding for three research projects at Hanken.

I sitt möte den 3 maj 2017 godkände Akademiska rådet (AR) 19 magisteravhandlingar. AR:s följande möte senarelades till 7 juni 2017.

There is increased focus on sustainability in the private and public sectors internationally. In Hanken’s latest PRME report, the School and its activities are scrutinised towards the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Hanken is one of 29 higher education institutions worldwide in the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Champions and stands behind the statement in defense of universal values and principles made by PRME on 8 February 2017.

Hanken är en av 29 högskolor i världen som är en PRME Champion och står också bakom uttalandet som PRME gjorde 8.2.2017. Uttalandet är ett ställningstagande för universella värderingar och principer.

Twenty teams have been chosen to solve the grand challenges of our time in Helsinki Challenge, the science-based idea competition. Hanken is represented by the HUMLOG-institute Professor Gyöngyi Kovács and Doctoral Candidate Minchul Sohn.

Tjugo lag har nu valts ut för att lösa de stora problemen i vår tid inom ramen för den vetenskapliga idétävlingen Helsinki Challenge. Hanken representeras av HUMLOG-institutets professor Gyöngyi Kovács och Minchul Sohn, doktorand.

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.

Hanken School of Economics has signed an agreement with Fulbright Center regarding the grant programme Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics.