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Excellent cooperation to find opportunities for the FIDA regulation for OP Financial Group
Aalto University School of Business collaborated with OP Financial Group in a student project on exploring EU FIDA regulation opportunities
Empowering students with personal financial literacy
The new Personal Finance course combines the latest research with practical examples, teaches financial skills needed in everyday life, and helps to achieve personal goals and dreams.
Publication Forum seeks new panellists for term 2025-2028
If you are interested in becoming a panel member of the Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi, Jufo), apply by 15.6.2024.
Aalto Open Science Award ceremony brought together Aaltonians to discuss open science
Last week we gathered at A Grid to celebrate the awardees of the Aalto Open Science Award 2023 and discuss open science matters with the Aalto community.
Alum Anton Jantunen: 'In my role, analytical skills, a comprehensive understanding of complex concepts, and the ability to see connections are especially useful.'
Anton Jantunen's journey led him from major consulting firms and startups to working in Nairobi at the UN Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, which aims to improve access to safe sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health products and services. Jantunen works with innovative financing models for the fund.
Join us for the first Aalto Open Science Award Ceremony
All Aaltonians are welcome – no registration required!
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be hosted by Aalto University
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be held at Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus and in Zoom 3.–4.6.2024. Please register by May 3.
Aalto Open Science Award Honorary Mention 2023 – Professor Riikka Puurunen leads by example to foster sustainable open science
We interviewed professor Riikka Puurunen, head of Catalysis research group at the School of Chemical Engineering, who received an honorary mention in the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Aalto Open Science Award Third Place Awardee 2023 – Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project
We interviewed the Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project, 3rd place awardees of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Read the Qual+ Newsletter
We are excited to welcome you to the second Qual+ Newsletter and continue bringing you new ways of looking at methods within management studies.
Aalto Open Science Award Winner 2023 – Aalto Materials Digitalization Platform (AMAD)
We interviewed the AMAD team, winners of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Professors of the School of Business influence the editorial boards of academic journals
Being invited to the editorial board of a journal demonstrates appreciation for a professor’s work
School of Business became a Champion member of the global PRME network for sustainability education
Champion-level membership demonstrates that the School of Business is a leader in promoting responsibility, not just nationally but also internationally, while also committing it to work more diligently to advance sustainable development and responsibility.
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT THE FINANCE FACULTY
We are primarily looking for students majoring in Finance, but we also welcome applications from students with other quantitatively oriented backgrounds. Completion of a Bachelor’s thesis or other relevant experience is a plus.
Time off work - the biggest reason why fewer women are CEOs
Women are underrepresented in CEO positions partly because they spend more time outside of the labour market during the years when their careers are most likely to take off. Women also less often work in sales or production, which are common pathways for CEO recruitment.
Students helped Finland’s Central Securities Depository to research and combine fund industry information
The team learned a lot about the fund industry and the role of the central securities depository
People don’t always appreciate work on gender, but I think that it’s the most important work I could possibly do, says Professor Renée Adams
Renée Adams is a distinguished finance scholar who does research on the equality of women, art, and pricing
The ninth Economic Defence Course analysed the Government Programme
A welfare society cannot survive without innovations and successful business activities. This is why the objectives and measures to improve the operating conditions of companies that were outlined in the Government Programme must be successful.
Alumna Riikka Davidkin: Impact is at the heart of my work – We do nothing if it cannot have a positive impact in society in the first place
Our alumna Riikka Davidkin dreamed of an international career already as a child. Now, as head of a team investing in impact funds at Social Finance in New York, she feels that her work has great significance. In her mind, it is the financial sector that is best positioned to have an impact on solving the big problems of our time.
