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Department of Management Studies

Department of Management Studies

The Department of Management Studies offers a dynamic environment for scholarship and learning, where cutting-edge research underpins high-quality teaching.

The department educates strategic leaders with a strong ethical mindset for the contemporary global business environments. The research is mainly focused on advancing knowledge and critical scholarship in the broader field of management and organization studies.

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Research

At the Department of Management Studies, members of faculty carry out their research in multiple areas, collaborating across disciplinary borders with internationally acknowledged scholars from all over the world. The research strategy of the department rests on the discipline’s core strength in understandings of organisational settings as sites, where decisions are made in the face of potentially incompatible demands.

Research in International Business

International Business - cutting edge in research and teaching

Aalto BIZ researchers, photo Aino Huovio

Research in Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship unit offers a unique action-oriented learning experience for Master’s students and a high-quality research programme that contributes to scholarly debates and policy development.

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Research in Organization and Management

Organization and Management comprises a broad group of scholars. Research and teaching in the discipline is informed by the recognition of complexities that pluralist demands from multiple stakeholder groups create for management.

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Research in Organizational Communication

Research and teaching in the unit of Organizational Communication focuses on the social and communicative practices through which organizations, communities, and societies are managed and organized. The unit has a unique research profile in interdisciplinary organizational communication studies.

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Studies

International Business, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

The Bachelor’s Programme in International Business provides students with a comprehensive range of skills and knowledge to build, develop and lead companies on a global scale. A bachelor’s degree in business with an international focus opens up a wide variety of career opportunities across all industries and continents.

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International Design Business Management, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

IDBM is a pioneering and renowned study programme that truly embodies the vision of Aalto by integrating design and technology with global business development. Through transdisciplinary teamwork and real-life business challenges provided by our prominent industry partners, the programme prepares students as the next generation of creative professionals. IDBM is uniquely positioned as the only programme offered in all six schools of Aalto, allowing programme graduates to earn a Master’s degree in either business, design or technology.

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Creative Sustainability, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

The Creative Sustainability (CS) programme provides students with the skills and knowledge to address pressing global sustainability challenges through business. Students with different backgrounds are united by the creative solutions, hands-on methodologies and shared values that characterise the programme. Graduates are well-prepared for leadership positions that require harnessing business understanding to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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International Management, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

The programme prepares students to operate responsibly and successfully in influential decision-maker positions in a globalized environment.

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Sustainable entrepreneurship, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

Get the tools to lead sustainable business ventures – and join the race to solve some of the world’s most urgent problems!

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Strategic management in a changing world, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

Strategic Management in a Changing World is a unique Master’s programme that teaches students how to develop effective strategy in a rapidly changing world. Graduates are analytical decision-makers who can identify valuable business opportunities by evaluating of complex global megatrends such as sustainability, digitalization, and globalization. To action these new opportunities, the programme teaches students how to bring an entrepreneurial mindset into their organizations.

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Aalto Doctoral Programme in Business, Economics and Finance

Doctoral Programme in Business, Economics and Finance is a four-year, English-language doctoral programme offered by Aalto University School of Business - one of Europe’s leading business schools. The program provides rigorous, high-quality research training in a collaborative academic culture that values intellectual independence, critical inquiry, and low hierarchy.

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People

People in International Business

Meet the professors, researchers, doctoral students and staff of International Business.

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People in Entrepreneurship

Meet the professors, researchers, doctoral students and staff of Entrepreneurship.

Aalto people working. Photo: Unto Rautio

People in Organization and Management

Meet the professors, researchers, doctoral students and staff of Organization and Management.

Teamwork

People in Organizational Communication

Meet the faculty and doctoral researchers of organizational communication.

A group photo taken in 2025 of the Organizational Communication Unit at Aalto University, with most members present.

Department Administration

Meet the Administration of Department of Management Studies

BIZ main building
FINIX
GloWater
ForTran
Headquarters Location Research Project
Quantum Computing – from Labs to Markets

Events

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Networking

Aalto University alumni event in Hong Kong

We warmly welcome Aalto University alumni to an alumni event in Hong Kong on 23rd February 2026.
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Power of Networking focuses on strategic networking, not as a buzzword, but as a practical skill for entrepreneurs and innovators alike.
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Public defences

Public defence in Organization & Management, M.Soc.Sc Anna Kevätsalo

Working for a cause – Studies on Identity and Emotions in the Pursuit of the Greater good at Work
Doctoral hat floating above a speaker's podium with a microphone.
Public defences

Public defence in Entrepreneurship, MSc, Econ Ali Sadeghi

Entrepreneurship and the structure of experience: an interdisciplinary exploration

News

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Research & Art Published:
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Appointments Published:

‘My entire career as a marine biologist and sustainability scientist has been extremely interesting’

Professor of Practice Eeva Furman has spent most of her career conducting interdisciplinary research in sustainability sciences
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Awards and Recognition, Studies Published:
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Cooperation Published:

New podcast: Leading for Interdisciplinary Creativity

The podcast of the IDBM programme discusses leading creativity, interdisciplinary teamwork and the future of design-intensive business

Contact information

We are located in Aalto University School of Business' campus in Otaniemi

Visiting address

Ekonominaukio 1
02150, Espoo

Department administration

Head of the Department: Professor Nina Granqvist
Assistant: Tiia Melander

School of Business

We strive for better business and better society. We excel in education and research with a multidisciplinary approach and in collaboration with our partners.

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