This year, Helsinki Mayor Juhana Vartiainen opens the new academic year at Hanken School of Economics on 1 September 2021 with a greeting from the City of Helsinki. Universities have a major role to play in supporting the development of our capital. Hanken and the City of Helsinki can work together to make both the city and Finland even more attractive.
After many years in the oil industry, Linda Tallberg changed her career and started researching human-animal relations at work. She is often asked the question: what do animals have to do with business?
Research funding is increasingly granted to large, multidisciplinary consortia in which researchers from several universities, but also other societal actors participate. Researchers at Hanken have actively applied for funding for such projects, and in the spring of 2021, a record number of researchers at the university received highly welcomed news from the funders.
Owned media publications present business sustainability frontrunners actively. Sustainability communication can go beyond managing legitimacy and reputation and guide firms to adopt sustainability-related practices and discourses. Meri-Maaria Frig (M.Sc.) discovered this in her doctoral thesis, which examines business sustainability communication in media.
Appointments to mental health services have been steadily increasing among both higher education students and other representatives of the same age group since autumn 2020.
During the summer Science Direct had a problem where one could not access the articles in the database. It will take some time to solve the problem which is why the Library at Hanken provides access to articles from the database to those that need them.
Big questions such as decolonization, the relevance of research to the global south, and the future of work, were on the agenda of the fourth Responsible Organising conference, held at Hanken on the 28th of April.
Rasmus Öhman, 28, graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in accounting from Hanken in Helsinki. He continued to Aalto University where he became a Master of Economics in 2019. Since October 2019, he has been working at Deloitte AG in Zurich.
How much did the e-book usage at Hanken increase during 2020? How many shelf meters of books are there in total in the library? We have collected key numbers from Hanken library services and there is no doubt that last year was exceptional.
During the spring, a course in cultural sustainability and communications was organized for the first time at Hanken. The course was a response to the students' interest in courses in the humanities.
The results from the joint entrance exam in economic sciences have now been published for Hanken’s Bachelor degree programme in Helsinki and Vaasa. In June 2021 the entrance examination for future BSc students was arranged under strict security measures.
Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki has had a grand piano in frequent use for about 50 years. The instrument is used during festivities and is otherwise available in the foyer for students to play it. Now our instrument, however, needs to retire.
Rector Karen Spens has been appointed Trustee in the Board of the accreditation organisation The Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association (AMBA & BGA).
