Sonja Sarasvuo, assistant professor in marketing, has received the Waldemar von Frenckell Foundation’s award in business and economics, amounting to EUR 30,000. The award, which is granted to different scientific disciplines each year, supports her research in marketing and brand strategy.

Many municipalities, political parties, economic development organisations and economic advocacy organisations in Lapland have provided support for countermobilisation against the Finnish Sámi Parliament and for a new identity project with local-regional economic interests.

The President of the Republic of Finland, Alexander Stubb, has awarded three distinctions to people associated with Hanken School of Economics.

Alexandra Dahlberg is a medical doctor, AI researcher and Hanken alum who has carved out a unique career path by combining medicine, economics and technology.

With healthcare organisations facing tighter budgets and growing financial insecurity, a new study from Hanken highlights the importance of involving care workers in shaping practical solutions - especially when it comes to resourcing and keeping promises made to clients and their families. The study addresses a growing tension between economic efficiency and the ethics of human care.

"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.

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.

Nationally 28 universities are asking their students about Exam, the e-exam system used in the Examinariums, the rooms dedicated to e-exams. What do you think about it, what is good, what is bad? Last year, 4200 e-exams were in the examinariums at Hanken. Therefore we are very interested in knowing your thoughts about Exam. Please, answer before 20.4.

Nationellt utförs en enkät om Exam, e-tentamensprogrammet som används i examinarierna - vad tycker du om det, vad är bra, vad är dåligt? På Hanken hade vi ifjol 4200 tentamen i examinarierna, så vi vill gärna höra vad studerandena tycker. Svara före 20.4

Hanken links do not work for the moment in Google Scholar! If you want to access Hanken scientific articles use Hanna. UPDATE 20.2. Hanken's Google Scholar links work now!

Hanken School of Economics, together with other universities and science funding agencies, is committed to working together to accelerate the sustainability transition.

Hanken student Emma Kärkkäinen has won the Association for Environmental Management’s (Ympäristöjohtamisen yhdistys, YJY) master’s thesis competition with her thesis “Implementing sustainable strategy through green investment projects: a multi-level case study from Finnish process industries”.

As a researcher, it is important to be able to identify and avoid predatory journals and conferences. We have gathered information on Hanken’s website about what characterizes predatory publishing and how to ensure that a journal or conference is reliable.

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.

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.

Hanken School of Economics will confer 60 doctoral degrees and nine honorary doctorates in connection with the solemn conferment of doctoral degrees on Friday 1 November 2024.

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 recent years Hanken School of Economics has welcomed about 80 new international students each autumn. Most international students join Hanken’s Master’s programmes in English, which offer major studies in the main business-school disciplines. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Hanken has international students from 35 countries around the world.

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.

For the first time in 10 years, a Finn brings home an individual men's medal in the World Orienteering Championships. Olli Ojanaho, who studies Management and Organisation at Hanken, won the bronze medal in long-distance orienteering in Switzerland in July 2023.

People working within the field of law and business, and also society at large, can benefit significantly from legal design and thus increase comprehensibility, efficiency and risk management.

Hanken doctoral student Joosua Virtanen has been awarded a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship. Virtanen is one of three Finns awarded this prestigious one-year grant and will travel to the University of California, Berkeley this autumn to conduct research related to his doctoral thesis.

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.

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.

Use the new PDF Full Text link if you want direct access to a scientific article in Hanna!

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.

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.

The public will be able to read the scientific publication Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management online free of charge from 2023 onwards.

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.

År 2019 förband sig Hanken att bli koldioxidneutral senast år 2030. Som ett steg mot det målet har högskolan nu kompenserat för våra beräknade utsläpp från 2020.

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.

Many countries in Europe are struggling to achieve higher vaccination coverage in the fight against covid-19. This has raised the question of how more people could be motivated to take the vaccine. A new study, which Hanken School of Economics has been involved in and which was published in the scientific journal Science, shows that a small payment equivalent to 20 euros made more people get vaccinated in Sweden.

Last 30 September and 1 October 2021 in Napoli (Italy), the sCience & human factOr for Resilient sociEty (CORE) consortium was ready to participate in the Kick-off meeting hosted by ISSNOVA with the joint organization of the University of Salerno, coordinator of the project. The meeting counted peak of 40 representatives of the 19 members that form CORE Consortium and has been held in a mixed form, online and live, due to the COVID emergency.

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.

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?

In Hanken’s third year of participation in the Aim2Flourish initiative, and after three nominations in previous years and four nominations this year, one of our student teams has received the Flourish prize for 2021.

Ett team bestående av studenter från Hanken har tilldelats pris i Aim2Flourish-tävlingen 2020 för innovativa berättelser om affärsverksamhet som stöder förverkligandet av FN:s globala mål för hållbar utveckling.

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

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.

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.

You often hear people criticize scientific articles saying that they rarely address genuinely managerially relevant and topical issues let alone offer recommendations for how to deal with these.

Hanken Professor Christian Grönroos has been ranked as number two among marketing researchers, according to a study by researchers from Stanford university, published in the prestigious scientific journal PLOS Biology.

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.

How much scientific, openly published research on the web vanishes? A study on the subject, led by Hanken researcher Mikael Laakso, has been discussed in both Finnish and international media over the past week. Laakso emphasizes that there are economic, technical, as well as social reasons behind the problem of lost research.

Hur mycket vetenskaplig, öppet publicerad forskning på webben går förlorad? En undersökning i ämnet, som letts av Hankenforskaren Mikael Laakso, har under den senaste veckan diskuterats i både finländska och internationella medier. Laakso betonar att problemet med forskning som går förlorad är en blandning av ekonomiska, tekniska, och sociala faktorer.

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.

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

Empirical case studies and economic analysis of law might be the answer we have been looking for.

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.

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.

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

A standardized and open ESG data register would facilitate the increasing ESG-informed decision-making and sustainable investments worth up to 260 billion euros annually at EU level only.

The Board of Hankens School of Economics has on 7 February 2020 re-elected professor Karen Spens as Rector for Hankens School of Economics for a three-year period to the summer 2023.

The President of the Republic of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, will be promoted to honorary doctor at Hanken School of Economics in a solemn ceremony on February 6, 2020. 

The Finnish Service Alliance has awarded Lobna Hassan’s doctoral thesis The Service PhD of 2019.

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

This year Hanken Research Day was organized the same day as Researchers’ Night, a European event aiming to bring researchers and the public closer.

What makes a company engage politically for a binding legislation of corporate social responsibility? A new research project, that was granted funding from Academy of Finland earlier this year, is diving into this question by analysing a campaign.

What do tangled reinforcement bars, Hanken's 110 years and the new fundraising campaign have in common? A lot, says rector Karen Spens.

Hanken School of Economics has been ranked among the world’s top 35 universities and higher education institutions in the global U-Multirank university ranking on research and research linkages. The result is the second best in the Nordic countries.

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.

A new study indicates that Hanken attracts top international professors and non-Hanken-doctors, who have top research productivity.

Ilmastoveivi 2019 is a climate campaign launched by private citizens appealing for more sustainable climate policy in the European Union. Hanken has shown its institutional support for the campaign by signing the petition.

Vesa Vihriälä, DSocSci, has been appointed Professor of Practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. Vihriälä will assume the position on 1 July 2019. The position is housed at University of Helsinki.

During World Economic Forum (WEF) Business Lead will be showcased, and Hanken School of Economics Rector Karen Spens will participate in a panel debate, concerning impact investment at the annual Swedish lunch event.

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.

Money follows the best people and ideas, said Professor Bengt Holmström in the opening ceremony of Helsinki GSE. Professor Jean Tirole expected courage from politicians to admit that preventing climate change will require financial investment.

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.

Do you want to know more about pitching? Do you need tips on how to make a presentation that makes an impact? Join us for a pitching session arranged for researchers at Hanken on 5 September 2018 at 10-12.

The partnership between Hanken & SSE Executive Education and social impact bond fund manager Epiqus Oy wins European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) award in the category “Talent Development"

Hanken & SSE Executive Education har tillsammans med kapitalförvaltningsbolaget Epiqus Oy vunnit European Foundation for Management Development:s (EFMD) pris i kategorin Talent Development för integrationsprogrammet Business Lead.

Rector Karen Spens and Hanken Business Lab Director Markus Wartiovaara were awarded the Commemorative Medal of Professor Stefan Kassay Foundation for Science and Education on 30 April 2018 for their work in the field of science and entrepreneurship.

The Governing Board of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics has selected Professor Otto Toivanen from Aalto University to be Academic Director and Professor Hannu Vartiainen from the University of Helsinki to be Academic Deputy Director.

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.

Open Access (OA) is becoming a norm in scholarly publishing. What does the funding organisations require? Has Hanken reached its goal for OA publishing? Open access as a new criteria for the publication awards at Hanken.

The Hanken foundation 'Stiftelsen Svenska handelshögskolan' has decided to reward the following persons for their publications in accordance with the guidelines (from 9/2014) for rewarding scientific publications.

Anna Wallin and Petri Nokelainen at Tampere University of Technology are currently doing research on the relationship between social media use and career development in a research project.

Anna Wallin och Petri Nokelainen vid Tammerfors tekniska universitet leder ett forskningsprojekt kring sambandet mellan användning av sociala medier och universitetsanställdas utveckling av det egna professionella kunnandet och karriären.

How can a company draw up and implement a successful service strategy? Assistant Professor Christian Kowalkowski has, in collaboration with Wolfgang Ulaga, Arizona State University, written a book that will provide guidance to companies.

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.

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.

Helsinki Challenge, the science-based idea competition, creates solutions for the grand challenges of the world and for building the well-being of the future through collaboration between the scientific community and society.

Vetenskapstävlingen Helsinki Challenge skapar lösningar på de stora problemen i världen genom samarbete mellan forskare och det omgivande samhället.

Helsinki Challenge is an idea competition where solutions for the great challenges of the world and future well-being are solved.

I vetenskapstävlingen Helsinki Challenge kan du vinna 375 000 euro för att förverkliga din idé för ett mera hållbart samhälle.

Openness is one of the key principles in science and research. Hanken has now published guidelines for open research.

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

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

A study by Hanken information systems researchers Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk has received coverage in several science magazines.

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.

The HUMLOG Institute's awards for best Master’s and PhD theses in humanitarian logistics 2014 have been announced.