Honorary Doctorates 2024
Honorary doctors, academic merits
Honorary Doctorates in recognition of academic achievements are conferred upon:
Roderick Brodie
Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Roderick J. Brodie is Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland Business School. He is a leading international scholar in Service Relationships, Branding, and Customer Engagement.
He has authored over 125 articles and editorials, many of which have appeared in the leading international journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Management Science, and Journal of Service Research. He is a former associate editor for the Journal of Service Research and Marketing Theory. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
In 2021, he won Outstanding Associate Editor for the Journal of Service Research. He has supervised over 50 Ph.D. and Master’s Theses and presented many Ph.D. workshops to guide students. He has received the University of Auckland Business Research Excellence Award three times. Based on his innovative, highly cited work in customer engagement over the last decade, he is listed as 2020, 2021, and 2022 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate™ (top 0.1% in Business and Economics worldwide).
He was the first president of Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy, and in 2004 he was made a founding Fellow. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the European Marketing Academy. In 2002 he was appointed CERS International Fellow Hanken School of Economics.
Rochelle Dreyfuss
Professor, New York University, USA
Rochelle Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita at NYU School of Law. She is Co-Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, Research Fellow at the Oxford IP Research Centre, and on the Executive Board of ATRIP.
She was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, the Thomas Christensen Fellow at Oxford University and held visitorships at various research institutions in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Germany. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Law Association.
Dreyfuss is the author of numerous articles and co-authored or co-edited A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System; The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property; Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America; the ALI’s Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes; and other works. She has advised the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Health and Human Services.
Bachelor of Arts at Wellesley College. Master of Science (Chemistry) at University of California, Berkeley. J.D. at Columbia University School of Law.
Lisa Ellram
Professor, Miami University, USA
Lisa Ellram is a University Distinguished Professor and the Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University in Oxford, USA. She teaches sustainability, logistics and supply chain management at the undergraduate and graduate level. Before that, she had an endowed professorship at Arizona State University. She was also a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Hanken School of Economics (2022-2023).
Her primary areas of research interest include circular economy and sustainability in purchasing, transportation and supply chain management; services purchasing and supply chain management; offshoring and outsourcing; and supply chain cost management and finance.
She has published in numerous top academic and managerial journals spanning a variety of disciplines. Her work has been cited around 40,000 times. She has co-authored nine books, including academic books and textbooks and has taught/presented in more than 35 countries on six continents.
Master of Business Administration, BSB-Accounting at University of Minnesota. Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.
Thomas Gehrig
Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
Thomas P. Gehrig has been Professor of Finance at the University of Vienna since 2010. He is also the Founding Speaker of the Oskar-Morgenstern Doctoral School.
Prior to his Vienna appointment he was Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Freiburg, Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of Basel and Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels, and the Systematic Risk Center at LSE, and a faculty member of the Vienna Graduate School of Finance. He has had numerous international visiting positions and was an adjunct professor at Rice University.
Gehrig is widely known for his pioneering work on market microstructure, financial intermediaries and financial geography. He has published more than 50 articles in leading economics and finance journals. His primary research focuses are on price discovery in markets as well as on competition and stability of banking systems.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the pioneering open access journal Business Research (2015-2021) and its successor Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (since 2021).
Diplom-Volkswirt at the University of Bonn. Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Venia Legendi in Nationalökonomie at Basel University.
Dean Shepherd
Professor, Notre Dame University, USA
Dean Shepherd is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University. He has held positions at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, and the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
His research and teaching are in the field of entrepreneurship; he investigates the decision making involved in leveraging cognitive and other resources to act on opportunities, responding with resilience to adversity, learning from experimentation (including failure), and the dark side of entrepreneurship. He has authored over 20 books and 180 publications in top management and entrepreneurship journals with over 80,000 Google cites.
Shepherd is a fellow of the Academy of Management. From the Entrepreneurs Division of the Academy of Management, he has been awarded the “dedication to entrepreneurship award”, the “mentor award”, and the “foundational paper award” (twice). He is the past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Business Venturing. He is on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Journal of Management Studies.
Bachelor of Applied Sciences at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Ph.D. at Bond University, Australia.
Honorary doctors, societal merits
Honorary Doctorates in recognition of successful and long-lasting careers in business and society are conferred upon:
Philip Aminoff
Philip Aminoff is Chairman of the Board of Tenetor Oy Ab, Helvar Merca Oy Ab and Helectron B.V.
Aminoff has held numerous positions of trust and been the Chariman of the Board for severals boards throughout the years. He is currently, among others, Vice Chairman of the Boards of Veho Oy Ab, Helvar Oy Ab and Fastems Oy Ab, member of the Supervisory Board of LocalTapiola and member of the Boards of Otava Oy and Oy Transmeri Group Ab. He has been on the board of Hanken School of Economics and the Hanken Support Foundation and on the council of Hanken Support Foundation. He has published several reports on ownership, family business and board activities.
He has been actively engaged in building up Hanken’s alumni activities and was the first Chairman of the Alumni Council after its founding in 2003. He is a permanent member of the Student Union of Hanken School of Economics since 2012. He serves as a Hanken ambassador and was elected Alumni of the Year at Hanken School of Economics in 2012.
He has been awarded the Commander of the Order of White Rose of Finland (FVR K) in 2021, the Navy Reserve Cross of Merit in 2022, the Siikajoki Cross with Diploma of the Nyland Brigade and the Nyland Brigade Silver Badge of Merit in 2023. He has also received the Gold Badge of Merit of the Perheyritysten liitto ry in 2012. He became a knight in 1997, a knight of justice in 2008 and an honorary commander of the Order of St John in 2023. He is an ambassador for Family Business Network International.
Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration) at Hanken School of Economics. Master of Business Administration (MBA) at INSEAD.
Henrik Andersin
Henrik Andersin is the founder of the Investment banking and Asset manager Evli Plc. He has held positions as the CEO and later the Chairman of the Board since the company’s inception in 1985.
He has been a member and Chairman of numerous corporate boards over the years and still holds several board positions. Among others, he is the Chairman of the Board of Scripo Oy Vencubator and Red Sky Yachts and a member of the Board of Inkoon Venehotelli Oy. He was Chairman of the Board of Nokian Panimo Oy 2008–2022. He has been a member of the Board of Hanken School of Economics (2002–2009) and he has been a member of the work group for Hanken’s EQUIS accreditation for several years.
Andersin has received the decorations of the Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland (FLO K) 2018. He is a permanent member of the Student Union of Hanken School of Economics since 1998 and First Lieutenant of the Reserves of the Finnish Defensive Forces. He is a member of the National Honour Society in the USA since 1978 and an honorary member of the Finnish Sexmetersförbundet.
Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration) at Hanken School of Economics. Has completed various programmes at Harvard Business School, London Business School and Haas School of Business, Berkeley, UofC.
Nicola Clase
Nicola Clase serves as the Swedish Ambassador to Finland and as the Ambassador to the UK 2010–2016. She has also served as Ambassador for Migration and Refugee issues. She previously had postings in Beijing, London and Copenhagen. Clase was appointed as State Secretary for EU and foreign affairs at the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office 2006–2008. In this capacity she served as the Swedish Prime Minister’s EU Sherpa.
She was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs (WCFIA) at Harvard University 1999–2000 and an associate at Harvard University 2008–2009.
Clase has made two radio programmes for the BBC World Service and one of them was nominated best radio programme in the category of Radio Current Affairs by the Association of International Broadcasting (AIB). Clase is a member of the Baltic Geopolitics Programme Advisory Board at the University of Cambridge. She has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
Master’s degree in East Asian Studies at the Stockholm University.
Marianne Stenius
Marianne Stenius is Professor Emerita of Finance and Investing and Rector Emerita at Hanken School of Economics (1993–2010).
For several decades, she has held international and national positions of trust in the higher education sector, promoting the development of research and education. She is a long-term board member of the Chalmers University of Technology Foundation, BI Norwegian Business School, Aarhus BSS, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics and Chairman of the Board of Åbo Akademi University.
She has actively contributed both nationally and internationally to the evaluation of research, postgraduate and undergraduate education at universities as well as the auditing of universities, including international accreditation of business schools (EQUIS).
Stenius’ involvement in research, postgraduate education, research policy and research funding include positions of trust in the Research Council of the EUI, membership in National Council of Research and Technology, EIASM, EFMD and the Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities, as well as in several foundations supporting research and postgraduate education. She is also a former Preses of the Finnish Society of Science and Letters.