What motivates people to pay their taxes? And what shapes moral condemnation of tax evasion? New research uncovers the complex moral psychology underlying why people pay taxes or evade them, providing insights for sustaining ethical cooperation as financial technologies evolve.
Nikodemus Solitander, Director of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility (CCR) at Hanken School of Economics, has been appointed by the Parliamentary Ombudsman as a member of the National Human Rights Delegation at the Human Rights Centre for a period of four years.
Seven aid workers from the food aid charity World Central Kitchen were killed in Gaza on Monday night when their convoy was attacked in a confirmed Israeli drone strike. This puts the death toll among humanitarians at over 200, writes Hanken’s Sarah Schiffling and Foteini Stavropoulou from Liverpool John Moores University in The Conversation.
The global professional services company Reddal is the newest member of Hanken's partner programme. “Linguistic and cultural diversity is important to us, so it is natural that we start a collaboration with Hanken School of Economics”, says Reddal's CEO Per Stenius.
In our new Alumni interview series, we meet Martina Abrahamsen, who has worked in the banking industry for 17 years. Her career has taken her via Frankfurt and Paris to Zug in Switzerland, where she has now been working for six years. Throughout her career, Martina has found that her Hanken degree has given her a solid foundation and many useful skills.
Hanken School of Economics’ Bachelor's Programme in Swedish received 2488 applications (2023: 2148), 1680 to Helsinki (2023: 1410) and 808 to Vaasa (2023: 738) in the joint application that closed on 27.3.2024.
The newly listed financial group Mandatum is a new member of Hanken School of Economics’ partner programme. “Hanken offers a versatile education that goes well with our extensive operations at Mandatum. It's a good match," says Joanna Kivi, Talent acquisition & Employer branding Manager at Mandatum.
Digital data can help companies improve customer experience and achieve greater growth, but the downside includes data breaches, misuse and employee technostress. How can companies responsibly and transparently collect, use and create value from all available digital data? A new research project at Hanken School of Economics wants to find out.
The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland has awarded a grant of 200,000 EUR for a project to research the matriculation examination in the Swedish language and literature, the test results, and the language of the examinees. This is a joint project between Hanken School of Economics and the University of Helsinki.
Students will soon be able to take one entrance exam and use it to apply to several universities and fields of study. The reform will significantly reduce the number of entrance exams. This will make it possible to adjust the schedule of admissions so that those selected through certificate-based admission do not need to prepare for the entrance exams.
Firms with strong improvisational abilities are more likely to learn and succeed when entering new markets, a new study from Hanken School of Economics shows.
Recent air drops into Gaza and President Biden’s plans for a pier for aid deliveries may look spectacular, but they can have only limited impact, writes Hanken’s Sarah Schiffling together with her colleague Foteini Stavropoulou in The Conversation.
Several students at Hanken School of Economics have been involved in helping a project for Unicef Finland to investigate how much children's rights are taken into account in Finnish listed companies. Unicef Finland report shows that the majority of companies do not consider or measure their impact on children.
Fighting global threats, from climate change to new contagious viruses, often requires large-scale changes in behavior. How can we modify the behavior of billions of people? This is the key question in Professor Tore Ellingsens economics lectures in how to change the world.
The Hanken alumnus Stefan Larsson’s “Dare to Dream” scholarship will be awarded to one Hanken student who is currently pursuing master studies and aims to graduate in 2025. This student will have Stefan Larsson as a mentor for one year and gets to visit him for a week in New York. The application period runs until 30 April 2024.
The application for the Fulbright Finland Undergraduate Grant is open. Students on undergraduate level can apply for a grant for exchange/freemover studies in the U.S. for the academic year 2024 - 2025.
The Hanken School of Economics invites you to the doctoral course on Societal Logistics with Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics Professor Terry Esper. This will be an all-day course at Hanken School of Economics on 17th and 18th April 2024.
