Management and Entrepreneurship
What you will learn
When you study Management and Entrepreneurship on bachelor level you will learn how people contribute to the success of companies and other organizations, and how people can be managed and led for profitability, growth, and innovation. You also get to develop your analytical and critical thinking skills.
Management and Entrepreneurship combines the capabilities and competences in two Hanken major subjects.
The subject Management and Organisation covers a variety of issues within people management and Human Resource Management (HRM), strategy and strategic management, international business, responsibility, sustainability, business ethics as well as new technologies and artificial intelligence.
The subject Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation focuses on organization-based opportunities and challenges in maintaining an entrepreneurial stance in the context of continual and rapid change, and extends to topics such as creativity, innovation, financing, and venture capital as well as sustainability and circular economy.
Available courses
Studies in Management and Entrepreneurship on bachelor level consist of courses in Management and Organisation, Entrepreneurship, and Information Systems Science.
You can choose from the following six courses so that you cover a minimum of 24 ECTS:
- Human Resource Management (8 ECTS): offered by Management and Organisation
- International Business (6 ECTS): offered by Management and Organisation
- Launching & Leading Creativity (8 ECTS): offered by Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Leadership (8 ECTS): offered by Entrepreneurship
- Analytics across Business Domains (6ECTS): offered by Information Systems Science
- Project Management (8 ECTS): offered by Information Systems Science
Depending on your choices for courses you will learn about how Human Resources (HR) are managed in organizations, how multinational corporations (MNCs) function and are managed, how you can enhance creativity and identify, develop, and evaluate business and innovation opportunities, how you can apply analytics for data-driven decision-making, and how you can manage technologies and people in projects.
After your bachelor's degree
After you have studied Management and Entrepreneurship for three years and have a bachelor’s, you can continue to study your master’s either in Management and Organisation or in Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation.
After completing a bachelor in Management and Entrepreneurship you have knowledge about managing and leading people in different kinds of organizations. Depending on your choices for courses and your bachelor’s thesis, you can develop capabilities and competences that help you prepare for work in
- Human resource management and development (experts and managers in human resources are responsible e.g., for recruitment processes, compensation and benefits, and employee training and development in organizations)
- Human resource consulting (external HR consultants work to help organizations develop their people management, for example, in attracting the right people, integrating diversity, and engaging employees)
- People analytics (people and workforce analysts gather and analyze data to identify various kinds of trends and needs regarding personnel, recommend solutions, and help organizations improve their operations)
- Business analytics (business analysts gather and analyze data to identify business trends, challenges, and opportunities, recommend solutions, and help organizations improve their operations)
- Projects (project experts and managers are responsible for planning, executing, and managing projects within an organization, and they oversee timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure that projects are completed successfully)
- Start-up entrepreneurship (start-up core team members have responsibility for, and influence on, all aspects of building and growing an early-stage entrepreneurial venture)
- Corporate entrepreneurship (corporate entrepreneurs lead innovative pursuits or spearhead entrepreneurial projects, such as through new product and service development teams, innovation groups, or corporate venturing)