A brand new Moomin book is set to release in September. However, this book focuses less on the events in the Moominvalley and more on the business and managing the ecosystem of companies with Moomin Characters at its core. Generosity is highlighted as a key management practice.
From 2025, universities will have nine national entrance exams, which will allow applicants to apply for a wide range of different subjects and universities. At the same time, the timetable for the entrance exams will be relaxed so that those selected by certificate-based admissions will no longer have to prepare for and take the entrance exams.
Hanken School of Economics invited donors and representatives from Hanken’s partner companies to the university on Wednesday May 29 as an expression of gratitude and a celebration of successful collaborations.
The Teaching Evaluation Committee is arranging a teaching demonstration for Assistant Professor Jesper Haga on 7 June, 2024, at 10.15 am in room V142 in Vaasa.
The former Governor of Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank), Stefan Ingves, sees several global trends affecting the economy that will happen regardless of what we in Finland want and choose. These include climate change, balance changes of financial power with countries growing at different rates, as well as large and growing public debt.
The business incubator Hanken Business Lab at Hanken School of Economics has been granted €750,000 by the Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation for the next five years. The agreement also includes a reservation for the same amount for an additional five years, resulting in a total of €1.5 million. Hanken will see to it that the donation is matched with €1.5 million.
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.
From studying and working as an IT administrator at Hanken to pioneering in options trading and hedge funds. Business angel and board professional Kaj Rönnlund from Vaasa is Alumnus of the Year at Hanken School of Economics.
Hanken has signed a new student exchange agreement with The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. You can apply for an exchange at this new partner university for Spring semester 2025 when the application is open.
OP Uusimaa is the newest member of Hanken's partner programme. "Hanken is home to the top experts of the future, and we want to be present to increase awareness of the financial sector," says HR Manager Jani Mikanmaa.
Hanken student Robin Perälä was awarded a prize of 5000 euro for his master's thesis "Forecasting Stock Returns with Supervised Learning: The Battle
Against Data Snooping" from Suomen Arvopaperimarkkinoiden Edistämissäätiö.
The student team ‘Hair4you’ from Hanken was one of the top three in the Nordic final of cosmetics company L'Oréal's international marketing competition Brandstorm 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.
According to the Finnish Innovation Index (FII) BeyondMeat, MeEat and Oatly are the most innovative companies in Finland 2024. The annual FII study, conducted by Hanken School of Economics, lists the most innovative companies and their respective industries according to Finnish consumers.
