Many alumni remember the IT Services in Hanken’s cellar as a somewhat frowzy dark place filled with it-scrap. Hanken Business Lab and Markus Wartiovaara changed all that three years ago. The Hanken Magazine met an alumnus who got on well in the incubator.

Hanken Executive MBA graduate Päivi Koivisto has been working in corporate sustainability for more than 20 years. She’s seen the field grow from a fringe function into one an increasing number of companies are putting at the core of their strategies. We spoke to her about the change.

Mindfulness and yoga have become popular methods today for people to find tranquillity amidst the hectic tempo of everyday life. Now this meditation technique has entered Finnish working life.

The new issue of the Hanken Magazine includes an article about mindfulness in working life. Also read an interview with a Hanken alumnus on working with sustainability.

Hanken arranged the conferment of doctoral degrees 25 October, where 47 doctors and 10 honorary doctors were conferred. Behind the PhD and the doctoral hat is an extensive education.

Negotiating with armed rebels in order to survive was a dangerous lesson in overcoming paralysing fear – something Arjan Erkel now shares with others to help them regain control over their lives.

What constitutes relevant leadership in our data-driven, fast-moving world? Seeing the individual is crucial to being relevant as a leader and relevant leadership is crucial to the success of the company, claimed Ann Hellenius at the seminar.

The copyright organisation Teosto can give students an insight to copyright matters, and give students interesting topics for their master's thesis.

Hanken Magazine met with Hanken professor Denise Salin to talk about work place bullying. The chances of stopping bullying are higher with early intervention, she says.