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| 29.01.2014

Hanken alumni awarded for excellent achievements

Three Hanken alumni, Annika Alftan, Jockum Backman and Jessica Jungell and have been awarded for their study efforts.

Relex Supply Chain Award

MSc Annika Alftan has been awarded the RELEX Supply Chain Award 2013 for her master's thesis in Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography.

Alftan's thesis "Collaborative Buyer-Managed Forecasting: a new framework to create a competitive supply chain in the grocery sector" was chosen as the Best Supply Chain Master Thesis in Europe 2013. Alftan was bestowed the award in January 2014. The jury considered her thesis to be interesting, meaningful and to give new perspectives to a current problem.

Alftan graduated in 2013 and is currently working at as a planner at Unilever.

Mansion House Scholar

Alumnus Jockum Backman was appointed the Mansion House Scholar by the Lord Mayor of London in October 2013. The scholarship was formally handed over during a dinner, which the Lord Mayor of London hosted for the City's financial services sector.

Jockum Backman, BSc in Economics from Hanken, received the scholarship as a master's student at the University of Warwick. The scholarships are appointed to students taking masters level degree courses at British universities or for training and work experience in the United Kingdom's financial services industry. Backman was the third Finnish recipient of the award.

Before his studies at the University of Warwick, Backman was working as associate analyst at Nordea and has also worked at Hanken as a teaching assistant.

Research award in family entrepreneurship

The Finnish Family Firms Association (Perheyritysten liito, PL ) awarded alumnus Jessica Jungell-Michelsson, MSc, for her master's thesis on employment of family members.

Jessica Jungell-Michelsson was awarded the Matti Koiranen - Family Entrepreneurship Research Award at the end of 2013. She was awarded for the solid theoretical foundation of her thesis in entrepreneurship "Anställning av familjemedlemmar i familjeföretag, den svåra balansgången", which covers the challenges of employing family members in family business.

Jungell-Michelsson has previously worked as a recruiting assistant at Hanken, and today she is helping Swedish companies to establish on the Finnish market, as a consultant at Business Sweden.