Finnish sports leadership to be renewed with a Sports Mini-MBA programme

The Sports Mini-MBA is a world-class programme aiming to provide optimal conditions for sports executives, top coaches, and athletes to lead and grow the Finnish and international sports business. The programme will start in December 2020 and is led by the sports and leadership veteran and CEO of ARVO, Kimmo J. Lipponen.

“Sports management requires combining societal impact and peak performance as well as addressing stakeholders with very different expectations, says the Sports Mini-MBA Program Director Kimmo J. Lipponen. ”The Sports Mini-MBA brings together talented leaders willing to learn how to best deal with these challenging tasks.”

“This education expands an overview of what it is about in sports management. It offers an insight for future skills requirements to exploit sport commercially but responsibly and effectively at the same time”, says Managing Director of Eerikkilä, Petri Jakonen.

”We want to positively impact and support our society and collaborate with the community we operate in through our different initiatives”, says Marc Hinnenberg, CEO of Hanken & SSE Executive Education. ”Sports is an increasingly important area of growth for Finland and to be able to support leaders working for that growth is an honour. The great success stories we have heard from our colleagues at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) from the MDA (Management Diploma for Athletes) programme they offer together with the Cruyff Institute Sweden, makes us eager to continue on that journey now in Finland.”

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For more information

Marc Hinnenberg
CEO Hanken & SSE Executive Education
marc.hinnenberg@hankensse.fi
+358 40 515 7710