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Quantum – a Gateway to Global Big Data Quantum is a versatile meeting place that offers access to company and financial databases and allows for the handling of big data. Modern technology makes it possible to stream all classes and other events, as well as allowing for keeping up with real-time financial news. Quantum, made possible by donations, opened in February 2020. Associate Professor Othmar Lehner, who is the Director of Quantum and the Hanken Centre for Accounting, Finance
and Governance, explains why Quantum was necessary. “There were always good databases and computer rooms at Hanken, but we felt that wasn’t enough. We wanted to offer our students and graduates the very latest in data science and data bases in one sole, integrated, beautifully designed stock market-like physical space”, Lehner says. The whole board of Hanken was behind the idea which was part of Hanken’s
110-year celebration and the fundraising campaign HANKEN 110. “There is no official definition of what Quantum is. We intentionally keep it abstract and personal. For me, Quantum stands for a quantum leap, which is this sort of jump into the future, into artificial intelligence and data-driven management decisions.”, Lehner explains. Read more about Quantum at hanken.fi/ en/quantum
Kaj Storbacka New Hanken Foundation Professor, Christina Dahlblom New Professor of Practice
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Kaj Storbacka, specialized in marketing strategies, has joined Hanken as a professor on 7 September 2020. He will be working part-time for at least a three-year period until 2023. Christina Dahlblom was appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken’s Department of Management and Organisation on 3 November 2020. Storbacka joins Hanken from New Zealand, where he was professor at the University of Auckland Business School. In his new position at Hanken, he will start collaboration with enterprises interested in new ways of influencing and shaping markets. He also hopes that enterprises will be contacting him.
“I’m going to cooperate with enterprises aiming to shape the markets instead of merely reacting to them. The goal is to start a consortium project with enterprises not in competition with each other, making them more likely to share their experiences”. Dahlblom, again, wants to contribute to even tighter networks and dialogue between Hanken and the corporate world. This will help Hanken to continue developing cooperation, research and education valuable to Hanken itself as well as to businesses and society. ”I would love to see even more discussion about how research at Hanken has been applicable in organisations in their daily work”.
