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.
The Fulbright Finland Foundation, in collaboration with the Nordic Fulbright Commissions, has launched the application round for the Nordic Youth Grant for the Arctic. This grant offers up to 12 young people aged 18-26 from the Nordic countries a chance to travel to Anchorage, Alaska, in April 2025, to participate in the Arctic Encounter Symposium. Participating in this event allows students to connect with leading experts, network with like-minded peers, and explore innovative solutions for a sustainable future in the Arctic. We believe that this grant is an incredible opportunity for students who are passionate about Arctic issues and sustainability.
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.
The marketing team will arrange a virtual Christmas calendar on Instagram this year! Participating in the calendar is open for everyone at Hanken and all friends of Hanken. Join us!
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.
Hanken has signed new student exchange agreements with Esade Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain and University of Aberdeen i Aberdeen, United Kingdom. You can apply for an exchange at these new partner universities for autumn semester 2025 as soon as the application round opens mid-december. Deadline for applications is 3 February 2025. You will find a short introduction to the new partners below.
At the beginning of November, Hanken School of Economics held a conferment of doctoral degrees and at the same time celebrated two jubilee doctors, Alf-Erik Lerviks and Christian Junnelius. Here, the jubilee doctors, who graduated 50 years ago, share their recollections from those days.
Johanna Karanko and Nicola Lindertz are Hanken alumni who both became ambassadors. Karanko is currently stationed in Brazil while Lindertz serves in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Among other things, they are working to promote the interests of Finnish companies and they have recognised many business opportunities in South America.
On Friday 1 November 2024, the Hanken School of Economics organised its thirteenth doctoral conferment ceremony. Hanken conferred 60 doctoral degrees, nine honorary doctorates and honoured two jubilee doctorates.
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The University Collegium of Hanken School of Economics has in its meeting on 24 October 2024, elected a new Board for Hanken. The term of office for the new Board is 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2027.
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A new one-year master's programme in sustainability reporting and financial analysis will start as a cooperation between Hanken School of Economics in Vaasa and Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics. This is Finland’s first one-year master’s programme on a university level.
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.
Info sessions are held for bachelor’s students in their second year and above who, according to their study plan, will go on exchange during the autumn semester 2025. A separate information session is also held for students interested in exchange on master’s level.
The technical problem is fixed! Hanken links are created as normal in Google Scholar. Activate the Library Links within Scholar so that you can access Hanken e-resources.
This year’s winners of the Sustainable Finance in the Quantum Era Hackathon arranged at Hanken School of Economics developed a quantum optimisation algorithm focused on the logistics industry. Their findings show improvements in both problem-solving efficiency and time reduction.
In line with the internationalisation ambitions of Hanken, academic and administrative staff are offered the opportunity to apply for an Erasmus+ teacher/staff mobility grant at a Hanken partner university within the European Union.
