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Research: price tag counts more than long-term results when purchasing medical devices
A cost savings based bonus led procurement professionals to choose a cheaper device option over one with improved health outcomes but a higher price tag.

School of Business featured in many top-level international publications
Over the entire month of April 2024, the School of Business featured in publications reaching a combined readership of over 11.8 million

Assistant Professor Bianca Beyer receives the prestigious 2024 American Accounting Association Award
Bianca Beyer and co-authors are the recipients of the 2024 AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges for their paper 鈥淗ow Does Carbon Footprint Information Affect Consumer Choice? A Field Experiment鈥.

The European Artificial Intelligence flagship project DeployAI builds the AI on Demand Platform
It enables industry and public sector to leverage on AI and generative AI technologies

The first report about Finnish business intelligence development published
For a brighter future of Finnish university BI education and enhanced BI practices for Finnish companies!

Economist: A natural resource tax on hydropower would generate revenue and improve the state of the environment
A natural resource tax would be a way to distribute the costs of environmental protection so that they would not fall solely on electricity consumers

New research: Labeling carbon footprint affects the choices of mass catering customers 鈥 and the labeling method matters, too!
A recent study conducted in Germany shows that customers in a student canteen choose low-emission meals when presented with the carbon footprint of meals. This effect was strongest when the information was color-coded in a traffic-light scheme and translated into environmental costs in euros. According to one of the researchers, these findings could also be relevant for Finland, where mass catering is particularly popular.

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鈥檚 work

Education for the future
The new EDUCA Flagship brings together data and education researchers in an unprecedented way and significantly deepens the research-based nature of education policy

Will artificial intelligence take your job in marketing? True or false: five claims about the future of marketing
Johanna Fr枚s茅n, Associate Professor of Marketing, provides insights on some beliefs associated with marketing analytics

A New International Center for Qualitative Management Research, Qual+, has been opened
One of the center's main objectives is advancing methodological connections across researchers

Does entrepreneurship cause stress and burnout? True or false: five claims about entrepreneurs鈥 wellbeing
Professor Ewald Kibler examines common beliefs about entrepreneurship in light of his recent research

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 鈥 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

Yrj枚 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: 鈥榃e must be able to imagine the impossible to find new perspectives鈥
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鈥檚 Estoril Conferences, Aalto University School of Business organised a panel discussion on the topic of 鈥楾echnology through start-ups for a more sustainable business鈥
