Veronica Liljander was a productive and respected professor, researcher, and colleague. She was very involved in teaching and supervised many students on both master's and doctoral level.
Conflicts of interest caused by uneven information are everyday in many high-growth ventures and stock listed companies but many of the problems could be alleviated.
Christoph Vitzthum has been elected chair for the new Board of Hanken School of Economics. Vitzthum was elected during the Board’s statutory meeting on 14 January 2022. Janne Larma was elected vice-chair.
Employers who have a regular staff of at least 30 employees must draw up a gender equality plan at least every two years. However, new research reveals deficits in gender equality planning already before planning starts.
"We have always done it that way" is an expression that Joel Sunabacka, head of the Bank of Åland in Vasa, Hankenalumnus, and winner of the competition Young Leader of the Year in Western Finland, cannot stand.
The DigCBA project: Responsible Use of Digital Cash-Based Assistance in Refugee Crises
By Amin Maghsoudi, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research (HUMLOG) Institute at Hanken School of Economics.
The Climate University network, which Hanken is a member of and is coordinated by the University of Helsinki, has formed a teaching cooperation contract between 18 universities. With these new contracts, a majority of Finnish university students can take the network’s climate and sustainability -themed courses.
Dr. Daniel Pasternack has on 1.10.2021 been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken for a period of three years. Pasternack has a background as an entrepreneur and is the CEO of the asset management company Elite Alfred Berg.
The University Council of Hanken School of Economics has in its meeting on 3 December 2021, elected a new Board for Hanken. The term of office for the new Board is 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2024.
Bergsrådet Tekn. och Ekon. dr h.c. Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse för Företagsekonomisk Forskning has decided to donate 150 000 euros to Hanken. The donation is included in Hanken's ongoing fundraising campaign Count on Hanken.
KvarkenSat is a joint small satellite between the Ostrobothnian provinces and Västerbotten. It is due to be launched into space in just over a year, with drawings by children and young people on board on the satellite. The small satellite is the result of cooperation across the Kvarken. It also demonstrates that the conquest of space is not just for space superpowers.
Professor Luk Van Wassenhove is a pioneer in the area of humanitarian operations. He strives to close the loop between theory and practice by: (i) finding relevant problems in the practice of humanitarian operations, (ii) using rigorous research methods to gain insights on these problems, (iii) publishing his findings in peer-reviewed outlets, pedagogical case studies and other publications, and (iv) giving back to practice through implementable recommendations. Luk is also very generous with his time and contributes actively to strengthen the research community.
Assistant professor Maria Ehrnström-Fuente's current research project "Worlds in transition" focuses on what "economics" really is from an ecological perspective. This was also the starting point for a panel discussion during the Science Carnival in Vaasa on 19.11.2021.
The amount of misinformation related to COVID-19 is disproportionately high compared to content produced by fact-checkers on Twitter. Misinformation also lives longer online. This is shown by results from an ongoing study on online misinformation about COVID-19.
Lifeline Ventures invests two million euros in Hanken Business Lab's member company Mobal. Lifeline Ventures' previous investments include Wolt, Supercell, Smartly and Aiven.
A group of students, who have studied the local community's commitment to mitigating and curbing climate-related natural disasters in Mozambique, have won first prize in a science competition organized by the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics.
