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Ilkka Tomperi has been appointed as Professor of Practice in Real Estate Investment at Aalto University
'The real estate industry and the field of real estate investment are in a transition phase, which makes the task especially interesting', says Ilkka Tomperi.
Broad-based approach to competence
Executive in Residence Taavi Heikkilä asks whether universities should also approach the broad-based approach even more boldly and from a new perspective
The President has appointed the first Principal university lecturers at Aalto University
The President has appointed two Principal university lecturers: Senior university lecturers Johanna Bragge from the School of Business and Kai Zenger from the School of Electrical Engineering are the first Principal university lecturers at Aalto University.
Unite! fosters open science and builds a community of open science support persons
Unite! universities explored emerging perspectives about new open science practices, principles and goals at the Open Science Summer School that took place at Aalto University on 7-9 June, 2022.
Open Call for Energy Transition Exhibition
Aalto students and employees can submit proposals for the exhibition that opens in March 2023.
OP Financial Group donates 120 000 euros ɫɫÀ² University
The donation will be targeted to the field of business and economics.
Grants from Matti Lehti fund for the year 2022 awarded
The Matti Lehti fund has been donated to develop and encourage research, teaching and studies on digital information society in the School of Business
Alumnus Tomi Nyman: Sales business is consultative and creative problem solving
Tomi Nyman, who works as National Manager at Hilti, says that social skills and mentality for continuous learning are the most important skills in today’s working life. That’s why the understanding of how I learn is the single most important lesson learnt at university. Nyman’s study combination, Management as a major and Finance as a minor, is especially useful in his current position.
The student council assists in the development of the School of Business External Relations activities
School of Business Career Services student satisfaction survey results were represented to the School’s Premium Partners.
Otaniemi campus opening hours during summer 2022
Otaniemi campus and Aalto University Töölö opening hours during summer 2022
Business studies at Aalto are a great route for advancing sustainability
Also this year, students gave a good grade to their School in the international Positive Impact Rating (PIR), which measures sustainable development and responsibility.
‘Every day I felt happy to go to work. It never felt unpleasant.’
Martti Johansson, 80, is one of the happy members of Seiskan Veljet, the Brothers on the 7th floor
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
Aalto RDM & Open Science Training Attracted 2,800 Registrations This Academic Year
The webinars continue to be highly rated and most are already publicly available on YouTube.
'Mentoring is inspiring and fun' - Aalto International Talent Program offers a meaningful way to support international students
This year the group mentoring initiative brought together over 180 international students and 17 companies.
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
Ruka, Pyhä, Aava, Pikkujätti – Kari Jussi Aho and his siblings are the second generation steering their family business
‘Ownership should be everyone's business and on everyone's agenda’
Aalto University has joined the national Students on the Move programme
The aim is to develop activities that encourage increased physical activity and reduced sitting
For Planet. For People. For Peace.
Estoril Conferences 2022: An International platform for a global dialogue towards a more inclusive and sustainable world