This year, Hankendagen was held online for the first time with almost 400 participants in the audience. The event was broadcasted from Vasa where the celebration of Hanken Vasa’s 40th anniversary was highlighted throughout the event.
Five Hanken students participated this year in the international examination "Prüfung Wirtschaftsdeutsch" (PWD), which is organised by the Deutsch-Finnische Handelskammer in cooperation with Goethe-Institut.
Support Hanken researcher Hanna Silvola to win the title Vuoden Sijoitusteko 2020 (Investement deed of the year)! Silvola's and Tiina Landau's book Vastuullisuudesta ylituottoa sijoituksiin has been chosen as one of six finalists in the competition announced by Nordnet Bank Ab.
Although a state of emergency is not the optimal situation for developing novel innovations, a newly published Hanken study shows how the Covid crisis presented certain businesses with the opportunity to take their operations in an entirely new strategic direction.
Hanken’s annual Finance Day moved online this year, with three speakers presenting their work in an area of increasing interest to finance academics and fund managers alike: factor investing.
The nonprofit organization American Logistics Aid Network’s (ALAN) has honoured disaster relief efforts by those in the humanitarian logistics and supply chain industries. Hanken Professor Gyöngyi Kovács is one of the award winners.
Financial Times’ Masters in Management ranking annually ranks the best master’s programmes world-wide. Hanken’s master’s programme has this year been ranked 70th out of 90, which is very close to last year’s result (68th).
Kaj Storbacka, who is specialized in marketing strategies, has joined Hanken as a professor on 7 September 2020. He will be working part time for at least a three-year period until 2023.
Brief video messages have become part of everyday social media communication, and they were a growing trend within internal corporate communications in the 2010s. New research shows that using video messages for strategic communications increases the feeling of transparency and inclusion within the company.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that it is possible to work from home five days a week. However, is that ideal? Continued restrictions and the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections could, in many ways, make the autumn at workplaces bleaker than in the spring.
How does one become an entrepreneur or a business person in general? Experiential learning, which basically means learning by doing (and reflecting on what you did), or simply “getting out of the building” in this context, is perhaps the strongest single paradigm in entrepreneurship education at the moment.
Most of the teaching takes place at a distance also during the autumn, but many students long to the classes. One way of responding to this demand has been to combine teaching in class and online teaching in cases where it has been possible.
How much scientific, openly published research on the web vanishes? A study on the subject, led by Hanken researcher Mikael Laakso, has been discussed in both Finnish and international media over the past week. Laakso emphasizes that there are economic, technical, as well as social reasons behind the problem of lost research.
To the extent that the Covid-19 pandemic may change certain fundamental patterns of consumer behaviour, companies must carefully consider how to adjust their market strategies and tactics accordingly.
The opening of the academic year 2020-2021 will took place on Thursday, 3 September 2020. Did you miss it? No worries - here you can find a video from the event.
Karen Spens, rector of Hanken School of Economics, commented in her speech the research projects related to the coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing digitalisation of the teaching, and online courses that are free and open for everyone.
