What is a tastefully decorated home?
Fiskars scissors, Moomin mugs and an Aalto vase? Maybe also striped towels from Marimekko and a stool with legs of bent plywood (be it Artek, or a replica). How about [...]
The traditional internet forum: old but not forgotten
Our online activity is evolving and new forms of social media and online communication and interaction are constantly developing. Recent trends include, for example, continued growth of messaging platforms, the [...]
My Friday Bun Experience
It is a rainy Friday morning in January, with heavy grey skies. The wind rips my clothes and the rain feels like needles against my face. It is one of [...]
What’s up with all this data?
“The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth” - Seth Godin Can you spend a day without your phone, or would you be less smart without techy gadgets, [...]
What is it like being a PhD student at Hanken?
The application round for PhD studies at Hanken is now open, and closes on February 5th. If you are thinking of applying, please first check out the official information at [...]
To the moon and back – how collaboration drives breakthrough innovation
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." This quote supposedly coined by Henry Ford has never been truer than what it is today. [...]
Let less be more in 2020!
It’s that time of the year again – when we are about to take a break and spend a hopefully relaxing and energy-charging Christmas holiday with those closest and dearest [...]
Light in the darkness
It’s that time of the year I look out of the window and wonder what time of the day it is. When it’s dark when I wake up and dark [...]
The product always obscures the customer
Customers form the most important resource of a firm. Without customers, the firm cannot exist. Think about the heading again. The product always obscures the customer. An obsession with products, [...]
Why should I give up flying for the environment if almost three billion people in India and China don’t give a damn?
We’ve all heard this line of argumentation. Heck, most of us have gone down that rabbit hole of thought ourselves from time to time. There are many versions of the [...]