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Do dividends enrich shareholders? Is investing only for the rich? True or false: five claims about investing
Investing has become a hot topic in the media, in online discussions and around watercoolers and coffee machines – but are these conversations sharing wisdom or spreading myths? To help people make informed decisions, we asked Professor of Finance Peter Nyberg to talk about five claims and separate fact from fiction.
Purchaser, Decentralizer or something else? This is how 309 municipalities in Finland have organised their social and health care services
The research results and the practical experience of the costs of privatisation of social and health care services are contradictory
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Science Award to two doctors of development economics with long careers
Ritva Reinikka and Pertti Haaparanta share the Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Mikko Jalas: ‘We must be able to imagine the impossible to find new perspectives’
New professors: Mikko Jalas has been appointed as Associate Professor (tenured) in the field of Co-innovating for Circular Solutions from July 2022.
Companies can suffer by restricting CEO mobility
Factors that limit job changes make CEOs play it safe, so the risks necessary for growth are not taken. That's why it's good to keep career prospects open.
If you want to foster peace, study business!
Doctoral researcher Tilman Bauer studies peace at the School of Business. According to him, the purpose of business in society is to promote peace.
Women business-owners fear War more than men
Women business-owners fear the war in Ukraine more than their male counterparts, finds new research by the School of Business
A sustainable future needs innovative start-ups
As part of this year’s Estoril Conferences, Aalto University School of Business organised a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Technology through start-ups for a more sustainable business’
Welcome to the research seminar of Organization and Management
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From research to business: doctoral student Philipp Back and team initiate forestry startup formation
How can forest owners reconcile timber revenues, carbon sinks, and biodiversity? A multi-disciplinary research team combines economics, ecology, and machine learning to find the most productive way to manage forests sustainably. Now the team wants to bring their novel method to the market
A new research project is the first to investigate whether discrimination based on ethnicity occurs in the Finnish mortgage market
In the United States, for example, citizens from ethnic minorities pay more for their mortgages than others, even if there are no differences in creditworthiness. Furthermore, minority members’ loan applications are rejected more often – even when the decision is made by an algorithm. According to the researcher in charge of the new project, corresponding discrimination would, in the Finnish setting, cause economic inequality with long-term impacts
Coworking with their spouses helps women to improve earnings
According to new research, self-employed and co-working couples balance their individual earnings
Women and networking - career promotion or toasting with sparkling wine?
Unwarranted modesty and fear of being saddled with a debt of gratitude prevent women from networking effectively, new research says.
Pedagogical research benefiting university education
Recent study shows that male students have a competitive attitude towards accounting studies
Quantum computing is forcefully moving from labs to markets
Associate Professor Nina Granqvist leads an Academy of Finland research project that studies the market emergence around quantum computing in real time.
Recent study: The COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected the well-being of entrepreneurs under 40 years of age
A quarter of the interviewed Finnish entrepreneurs is experiencing intense exhaustion.
Management that values staff increases well-being at work
Well-being at work is a key factor behind highly successful individuals and organisations.
Everyone benefits from corporate financial reporting
Artificial intelligence, balancing between global and local issues, and increased stress upon social and environmental issues bring challenges for future accountants.
Sean Shin's paper accepted to be published in the Journal of Financial Economics
Assistant Professor Sean Shin's joint paper with Jaewon Choi, Saeid Hoseinzade and Hassan Tehranian has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Dissertation: Productivity information should be applied to reduce unwarranted variation in healthcare
Large differences in cost of care continue to persist between and within countries and even institutions – can the results of this dissertation make a difference?
