Blogs

If the new Israel-Hamas deal holds and their ceasefire begins on Sunday, the first stage includes a commitment to allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged territory. In an article for the Conversation, Hanken’s Sarah Schiffling lists seven issues the UN agencies and humanitarian organisations will face when preparing to scale up their operations.

Sustainable innovation can be understood through three general dimensions: ecological, social and economic sustainability. In a blog post (in Swedish), researchers reflect on sustainable innovation from the consumer's point of view and discuss how Finnish consumers perceive companies' approach to sustainability.

AI has been a hype since important advances were made in machine-learning, huge data sets became available, and speed of computing power steeped up. In a blog post, Professor Frank den Hond explores the question: What do humans lose when we let AI decide.

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.

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.

Hanken School of Economics’ project Ostrobothnia Tourism Roadmap 2030 looks at how UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be applied to a regional tourism strategy.

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What motivates luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Balenciaga, and Versace to collaborate with streetwear brands, animated characters, and video games?

In this CERS blog post, Assistant Professor Mekhail Mustak discusses the importance of adopting a Customer Success Management (CSM) approach.

Take almost any social problem in the wealthy part of the world today – poverty, widespread unemployment, uneven distribution of income, inadequate funding for public health, schools, or environmental conservation – and more economic growth is seen as the best and often only solution.