Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of more than 460 higher education institutions in 35 countries working to protect threatened scholars. Hanken is one of ten Finnish universities to launch a Finnish collaboration SAR-network.
The Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Hanken arranged a project course in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and humanitarian logistics, which also included co-operation with companies and NGO’s.
Hanken has received a donation of 250 000 euro from The Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto). This is the foundation’s second donation which brings the total amount donated to the campaign HANKEN RETURNS to half a million euro.
Everybody that goes on business trips need to have a travel insurance card. So far the new cards are available only in Helsinki but the new policy number is SP0001299653.
The supply of smart products is increasing at an enormous speed and is expected to reach 50 billion in 2020. Smartproducts are devices and appliances, for example refrigerators or washing machines, that are connected to the Internet.
Hanken gets its first Non-profit Partner as collaboration is initiated with DROPP. The new partner category has been created to enable and highlight long-term cooperation with non-profit organisations.
Around 80 participants from around the world will converge at Hanken to present and share knowledge related to the conference theme “Making Corporate Responsibility useful”.
How can a company draw up and implement a successful service strategy? Assistant Professor Christian Kowalkowski has, in collaboration with Wolfgang Ulaga, Arizona State University, written a book that will provide guidance to companies.
A total of 1121 applications (2016: 1108) were filed within the deadline for the integrated BSc and MSc programme in Vaasa and Helsinki this year. The master’s programme in Swedish got 208 applications (2016: 197).
The financial statement for 2016, approved by the Board of Hanken in March, shows that Hanken established its position as an internationally recognised, competitive and research-oriented business school.
In its meeting on 5 April, the Academic Council (AC) approved of 9 master’s theses. AC noted that the theses tend to build up towards the last meetings of the semester.
Hanken's Premium Partner Naava invites Hanken's personnel to join the member club Naava Family. Members of Naava Family are offered tips on how to, for instance, best utilise Naava-products.
The Ministry of Education and Culture invites the staff and students of the higher education institutions to participate in a workshop on the future vision for higher education and research, Vision 2030.
Hanken faculty, staff and representatives of the student union are warmly welcome to take part in the concluding seminar of the audit of Hanken’s quality system. The seminar will take place on 23 May.
