NEWSLETTER 4-16 FROM HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Stepping up to responsibility One of the key characteristics of Hanken is social responsibility. For us, this means promoting integration, openness and inclusion, in both our research and education, but also in our own activities. To strengthen research in these areas, Hanken has founded two new research and development institutes in collaboration with both national and international partners. One of the new institutes (CCR) focuses on corporate responsibility issues and the other (GODESS) on inclusiveness and social sustainability. Both centres are unique as they combine researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutions, dealing with research questions on burning issues in business and society. In education, Hanken continues to integrate the UN principles of responsible management education (PRME) throughout the curriculum. By doing so, we wish to raise a generation of business students with the ability to act responsibly and think analytically
and critically – abilities that will be needed in a world characterised by uncertainty and fastpaced change. We also take our own role as a socially responsible actor seriously, for example by facilitating the integration of asylum seekers through courses on Finnish business culture and offering direct pathways to Finnish businesses through mentoring and internships. Our hope is that even more universities step up to the challenge of social responsibility!
M I N N A M A RT I K A I N EN D E A N O F E D U C AT I O N
NEW RESEARCH CENTRES LAUNCHED In aiming at strengthening its position within the field of corporate responsibility and social sustainability, Hanken has launched two new research institutes. In September Hanken School of Economics and University of Helsinki founded a joint research and development institute, Centre for Corporate Responsibility (CCR). The aim of the centre is to enhance collaborative and cross-disciplinary research centering on business, politics and society. CCR also promotes socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development of Finnish businesses through high-quality research in close cooperation with firms, NGO’s, and research institutions. In November the new research and development institute GODESS (Gender, Organisation, Diversity, Equality and Social Sustainability in Transnational Times) was launched. The institute creates a crossdepartmental and cross-university community and aims to facilitate interventions and innovations in organizations that place gender, diversity, equality and social sustainability at the centre. The institutional partners of GODESS are Hanken, Jyväskylä University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.