Hanken alumni Päivi and Kurt Björklund donate 250 000 euro to the ongoing fundraising campaign HANKEN RETURNS. The donation reaches Hanken in the last week of the campaign and contributes to the campaign reaching 11.6 million euro.
The Hanken foundation 'Stiftelsen Svenska handelshögskolan' has decided to reward the following persons for their publications in accordance with the guidelines (from 9/2014) for rewarding scientific publications.
Publication Forum (in Finnish: JUFO) is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research output and operates under the auspices of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV).
In order to encourage Hanken research groups to apply for external research funding, the School has developed an incentive scheme to promote applications for external funding from sources such as the Academy of Finland and the EU.
Hanken researcher Peter Sarlin is member of the world-first global project to analyse high frequency financial data. The project team consists of researchers from the UK, France, Germany, Finland and the US.
Exchange students at Hanken are extremely pleased with their experience and their studies. The results from the latest exchange student survey show that 88% would recommend Hanken as a destination for an exchange student semester.
The research-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge has now reached its final stage. An international jury has selected six teams to the final. An additional team was selected through an audience vote on the Pitch Nights held on 6-7 June.
Hanken is currently investigating the ruling made by the Supreme Administrative Court to exempt an MBA-programme offered in Finland by a UK-based university in Finland from VAT.
Hanken, SSE and USI Lugano have joined forces in a unique MSc course collaboration to tackle world problems such as food waste by utilising digital tools for bringing students together.
Anna Wallin and Petri Nokelainen at Tampere University of Technology are currently doing research on the relationship between social media use and career development in a research project.
Hanken has committed to sustainable development that supports the national campaign Suomi jonka haluamme 2050. Under the hashtag #sitoumus2050 you can read all of the over 600 commitments already made.
Hanken & SSE Executive Education reruns the integration programme Business Lead with company partners as part of the Koto-SIB (Kotouttaminen Social Impact Bond) framework.
Clearly defined career paths have become important when universities compete in recruiting international top scholars and keeping existent staff. For that reason Hanken has decided to introduce Tenure Tracks.
Clearly defined career paths have become important in the rectuitment of both national and international top scholars as well as in trying to keep the faculty that already work at Hanken. That’s why Hanken has updated its personnel instruction.
