On 18 June 2020 Hanken was awarded for excellence in reporting for its PRME report 2016-18 among 500 competitors at the PRME Global Forum. Hanken has specially been recognised for its reporting on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
During the last three weeks in an ongoing covid pandemic, millions of people across the US and worldwide have taken to the streets and raised their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd by a policeman. Solidarity protests also took place in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku voicing issues of inequality, discrimination, and unequal justice.
Hanken offers around 40 seats in cross-disciplinary studies in corporate responsibility (CR) every year free of charge. A growing number of working professionals apply for the study module, as well as unemployed or laid off people.
CEOs are more likely to be fired when their firms are involved in ESG (“Environmental, Social, and Governance”) related misconduct, writes Niclas Meyer in a blog post on the Hanken Research blog.
How could we increase sustainability in urban last mile deliveries? Can innovations both reduce the negative effects of e-commerce and simultaneously create a top delivery system for consumers? Hanken School of Economics is coordinating a Nordic research project that will dive into these questions.
The growing importance of ESG data for financial decision making and for achieving sustainability goals was the topic of a webinar hosted by Hanken School of Economics on 11.6.2020. The speakers called for increased standardisation, transparency, availability and reliability of sustainability data in the face of pressing climate and environmental demands.
The HUMLOG Institute is coordinating a research project where the researchers are investigating how different countries have handled the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic impact and how to tackle social media disinformation.
During May Hanken has awarded students for excellent bachelor’s and master’s theses and good study performance. Each year, Hanken awards the best bachelor’s and master’s theses of the academic year as well as the prestigious honorary nomination Rector’s list, which is given to Hanken’s best performing master’s students.
Open access (OA) is a new way of disseminating the results of science openly on the internet, in contrast to traditional subscription-based access. A new study suggests that most of pioneering OA journals led by independent scholars (indie) and OA journals published in the Chinese language do not rely on article processing charges and therefore need to find long term solution to survive and flourish.
The Helsinki GSE Situation Room states in its latest report that the largest drop in salary amount in April was in Kouvola, Vaasa and Helsinki. The report is presented at an open access webinar in Zoom on Thursday 4 June at 8 am.
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the role of customers in business. It has become dramatically clear to many that without customers there is no business. Now when everything is upside down it is timely and relevant to reflect on this old but fundamental issue. Not that managers would not know it, in principle.
In order to carry its social responsibility during these exceptional times, Hanken School of Economics has decided to accept an additional 45 students in the ongoing admissions 2020.
As the Finnish government is providing economic support to companies suffering from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, voices are raised sustainability should be one criterion for getting the support. This is not entirely uncomplicated, as there are no common criteria or methods of gathering and comparing data describing the performance on sustainability, especially for smaller businesses.
The universities in Finland will increase the number of study places in the student admissions in spring 2020. Within the economic sciences, some universities have already decided to increase the number of study places while others are currently making plans for additional admissions. In the economic sciences, an increase of about 200 new study places is planned. The increased admissions will require funding in the government’s next supplementary budget.
