Projects

Main projects

• Contributing to the Horizon Europe Opens in new window  project TC4BE, Transformative change for biodiversity and equity Opens in new window  
  • Hanken brings the accounting knowledge on how to measure sustainability.
     
• Linking TCFD Climate Scenarios with Company Valuation
  • Our research project focuses on analyzing how climate risks and opportunities identified through TCFD climate scenarios impact IFRS line items

Sustainable investing among private investors in Finland:

Survey results on sustainable investing among private investors in Finland were presented by Associate Professors Hanna Silvola and Emilia Vähämaa in a webinar 11.5.2021. Their study is conducted together with professor Bonnie Buchanan (University of Surrey, also honorary fellow for the Hanken AFG Centre) and Nordnet acted as a partner in reaching to respondents. The results are available in English and Finnish below:

Other projects:

• Research on Sustainability, Good Governance and Impact Investing
  • “How to measure and analyse ESG information to support sustainable business?”. The project received a total of 200,000€ research funding from the Foundation for Economic Education for the time period 2020-2022.

• Policy Advisory on Green and Impact Finance and the global standardisation of Sustainability Accounting
• Contributing to the Nordic Corporate Governance Network 
  https://www.nordiccorporategovernancenetwork.com/news-bedford
• Hosting Conferences in the area of Sustainability Finance, Accounting and Commercial Law (Please stay tuned for our online symposium in September and the JAAF conference in December)
• Editorship of the Emerald Journal of Applied Accounting Research
• Publication of the Journal Financial Leadership Quarterly (from 2020 on)

Interested in our projects and research output? Contact the director!

Prof. Dr. Othmar M Lehner, Director

othmar.lehner@hanken.fi