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.

"Buy this. Read that. Be like this." Associate Professor Mikko Vesa, together with Professor Frank den Hond, has explored so called algorithmic recommendations, specifically how AI-driven tools aim to shape the choices we make and what the consequences of this might be.

Recent air drops into Gaza and President Biden’s plans for a pier for aid deliveries may look spectacular, but they can have only limited impact, writes Hanken’s Sarah Schiffling together with her colleague Foteini Stavropoulou in The Conversation.

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.

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!

The air strikes against targets in Yemen by the US and UK military have not been without criticism. They aim to keep the Houthis from attacking merchant vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

As uncertainty associated with the actions of policy makers is increasing around the global, it is having a significant impact on the financial markets. Whether it be the weekly dynamics in the corporate bond market or the trades of intuitional investors and mutual funds, policy uncertainty is having a profound and persistent impact.

Allt eftersom osäkerheten i samband med beslutsfattares agerande ökar runt om i världen har detta en betydande inverkan på finansmarknaderna. Oavsett om det är den veckovisa dynamiken på företagsobligationsmarknaden eller handeln med värdepappersfonder har osäkerheten en stor och bestående inverkan.

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!

Professor Joakim Wincent's research on entrepreneurship has been awarded the Academy of Management's internationally prestigious Foundational Paper Award. No European has previously received this honour.

The Board of the Hanken Support Foundation has appointed Mia Bengts as Ombudsman for the Foundation from 1 August 2023. Mia Bengts is a Hanken alumna and has a law degree from the University of Helsinki. The Foundation's current Ombudsman Paul Taimitarha will retire on 1 September 2023.

Styrelsen för Stiftelsen Svenska handelshögskolan har utsett Mia Bengts till ombudsman för Stiftelsen från den 1.8.2023. Mia Bengts är ekonomie magister från Hanken och jur.kand från Helsingfors universitet. Stiftelsens nuvarande ombudsman Paul Taimitarha går i pension den 1.9.2023.

Professor Lisa Ellram’s interest in the future of the planet grew early on, leading up to her studying and publishing research on environmental sustainability for over two decades now. As a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Hanken School of Economics, she has been focusing on the role of supply chain in the circular economy.

The question highlights the problems around our commercialised Christmas. In the CERS-blog Associate Professor Pia Polsa discusses our consumer culture around our Christmas traditions and how she has created a new identity for her family implementing an anti-consumption mindset.

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.

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.

In 2019 Hanken committed to be carbon neutral by 2030. As a step towards that goal, we have now compensated for our calculated emissions from 2020.

After many years in the oil industry, Linda Tallberg changed her career and started researching human-animal relations at work. She is often asked the question: what do animals have to do with business?

Here you will find a summary of the service Hanken offers during the summer months.

Professor Kaj Storbacka blir ny prorektor för fortbildning och näringslivsrelationer vid Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan. Som prorektor ansvarar Storbacka för utvecklingen av Hankens relationer till näringslivet och medelsanskaffning.

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.

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.

CERS Professor Kristina Heinonen has been invited to the board of the AMA Servsig Special interest group.

Fresh results published by a research project led by Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki show that travel restrictions are one of the most effective methods to stop the spreading of Covid-19. Travel bans have however, also resulted in serious disruptions in the transportation of medical supplies.

Kaj Storbacka, som specialiserat sig på marknadsstrategier, har tillträtt som professor på Hanken den 7.9.2020. Han kommer att arbeta deltid under åtminstone en treårsperiod fram till 2023.

Kaj Storbacka, who is specialized in marketing strategies, has joined Hanken as a professor on 7 September 2020. He will be working part time for at least a three-year period until 2023.

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.

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.

Många alumner minns datacentralen i Hankens källare som lite unken, mörk och fylld med it-skrot av varierande kaliber. Hanken Business Lab och Markus Wartiovaara ändrade på allt det för tre år sedan. Vi träffar en Hankenalumn som gillat läget i företagsinkubatorn.

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.

I nyaste numret av tidningen Hanken får du läsa om hur mindfulness hjälper till bättre stresshantering på arbetsplatsen. Läs också om hur alumner kan använda sig av Hanken Business Lab.

Torkel Tallqvist and Pekka Sääskilahti have been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken. Tallqvist is an expert on management and entrepreneurship, and Sääskilahti is an expert on economics of intellectual property rights,competition and pricing.

A new thesis shows that climate information interpreted and presented to local stakeholders influence the decision making which makes the society better prepared for weather-related hazards.

Hanken School of Economics 110th anniversary is celebrated with the opening of an art exhibition which consists of a selection of artworks from NoCo (Nordic Contemporary Art Collection).

Festligheterna med anledning av Hanken Svenska handelshögskolans 110 år inleddes med öppningen av en konstutställning som består av ett urval konstverk ur NoCo (Nordic Contemporary Art Collection).

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.

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 Ministry of Education and Culture has appointed Hanken Professor of Practice Anne Brunila as chair of a working group that is going to propose measures to strengthen the creative sector in Finland.

Undervisnings- och kulturministeriet har utnämnt Hankens Professor of Practice Anne Brunila till ordförande för en arbetsgrupp vars uppgift är att föreslå åtgärder som skulle stärka den skapande sektorn i Finland.

Guy Ahonen, who is an associated researcher at Hanken, has together with Ossi Aura, Tomi Hussi and Juhani Ilmarinen published their 6th report on Strategic well-being (SW) management in Finland.

Guy Ahonen, som är associerad forskare på Hanken, har tillsammans med Ossi Aura, Tomi Hussi och Juhani Ilmarinen publicerat resultaten för undersökningen Strategiskt välbefinnande 2016.

This year, Hanken started its academic year by investing in Naava active green walls.

Hanken's fundraising campaign will continue until 30.6.2017 and has, with this donation included, so far raised close to EUR 3,9 million.

Fundraisingkampanjen HANKEN RETURNS pågår till 30.6.2017 och har med denna donation inkluderad hittills inbringat närmare 3,9 miljoner euro.

Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation has decided to donate 1 million euros to Hanken's ongoing fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS.

Jane och Aatos Erkkos stiftelse har beslutat att donera 1 000 000 euro till Hankens pågående fundraisingkampanj HANKEN RETURNS.

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.

Rune Stenbacka, Dean of Research and Professor of Economics at Hanken School of Economics, has been appointed research professor. Stenbacka will begin his two-year professorship on 1 January 2015 and his term will run until 31 December 2016.