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.
Sustainable innovation can be understood through three general dimensions: ecological, social and economic sustainability. In a blog post (in Swedish), researchers reflect on sustainable innovation from the consumer's point of view and discuss how Finnish consumers perceive companies' approach to sustainability.
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.
To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Dr. h.c. Marcus Wallenberg’s Foundation for Research in Business Administration has decided to support the establishment of two endowed professorships: one at Hanken School of Economics and the other at Aalto University School of Business. In addition, the foundation announces that it will significantly increase its annual support for the doctoral programme Kataja.