News updated on 23 March 2020: Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (covid-19), Permanent Secretary Martti Hetemäki will continue to direct the work of the Ministry of Finance of Finland until 30 June 2020 (not until the end of February as informed earlier), and thus, won’t start as professor of practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics before July 2020.
Today’s business world is faced with continuous turbulence, and decision-making in the incalculable environment is even more complicated than before. Hanken trains its students to work-life challenges in tight collaboration with the business world.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of CERS, Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management at Hanken, the Grönroos Prize 2019 was awarded to prominent service researchers, Professor Suvi Nenonen and Professor Kaj Storbacka.
Minchul Sohn, who defended his doctoral thesis in humanitarian logistics last June, has been awarded for best doctoral dissertation by The Finnish Association of Logistics and Purchasing LOGY.
Hanken has a new model for teaching awards. It is a unique comprehensive model, which is about encouraging, rewarding and acknowledging quality in teaching.
Many alumni remember the IT Services in Hanken’s cellar as a somewhat frowzy dark place filled with it-scrap. Hanken Business Lab and Markus Wartiovaara changed all that three years ago. The Hanken Magazine met an alumnus who got on well in the incubator.
Hanken Executive MBA graduate Päivi Koivisto has been working in corporate sustainability for more than 20 years. She’s seen the field grow from a fringe function into one an increasing number of companies are putting at the core of their strategies. We spoke to her about the change.
Mindfulness and yoga have become popular methods today for people to find tranquillity amidst the hectic tempo of everyday life. Now this meditation technique has entered Finnish working life.
On 8 November 2019 Hanken signed the Climate Emergency Letter, an initiative started by SDG Accord - the university and college sector's collective response to the global goals - ahead of the COP25 Meeting in Madrid in December.
A research project at Hanken has been granted 200 000 euro by the Foundation for Economic Education. All eight researchers in the research group are Hanken affiliated.
The new issue of the Hanken Magazine includes an article about mindfulness in working life. Also read an interview with a Hanken alumnus on working with sustainability.
Hanken School of Economics has been selected as one of the 21 universities globally, and the only Nordic university, to participate in the Aiming higher series, made by BBC StoryWorks.
Rector Karen Spens has today signed a contract stating that Hanken School of Economics will hereby become a shareholder of Funidata Oy, a university owned company who is currently developing the Sisu support tool system for university education.
This year, the Finnish Sustainability Reporting Competition Award Gala was organized at Hanken. About 40 companies participated in the competition, and the winner of this year’s competition was Stora Enso.
