Why did I decide to pursue a PhD? After completing my master’s degree at Hanken, I worked in the industry for a few years. However, I kept thinking about my master’s thesis topic and the writing process, always with the feeling that I wanted to go back into academia to deepen and enhance my theoretical […]
The project course in Humanitarian Logistics is a course where groups of students are paired up with companies and NGOs to work on a specific project. During previous years, actors like IMPACCT, HEUREKA Kuehne+Nagel Denmark, and FRC have participated in the course on the company/NGO side. It also required us identify the strengths and bottlenecks […]
This blog post provides a Q&A type of an introduction to some of the teachers at Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics. The teachers elaborate on their academic specialisation areas Diego Vega What is your specialization area? Within humanitarian logistics I specialise in two things: Logistics Service Providers, either commercial […]
This blog post presents the topics of our current PhD researchers at the subject of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility. Humanitarian logistics in conflict and complex emergencies – Tamara Kirkwood-Wright The focus of my research is to identify what localisation involves and how effective different elements of a localisation strategy will be when implemented […]
In this post, topics for future PhD candidates are introduced. The topics can roughly be divided into: Humanitarian logistics, Supply chain risk resilience & security, and Sustainable & responsible supply chains. In Humanitarian Logistics we have: Humanitarian logistics services Logistics service provision in the humanitarian context is significant. It represents the first category of services […]
For this article, we interviewed our soon-to-be-graduate PhD researcher Qifeng Yan. He tells about his experience as a doctoral researcher at Hanken at the subject of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility. This year, the application round for the PhD programme in question is 1.12. 2023 – 3.1.2024. Qifeng’s background and roots Qifeng is from the […]
Reflections from a recently graduated Masters student Kieto Mahaniah Recent Graduate from the Masters program in Humanitarian Logistics from Hanken School of Economics “Hello Master!” It’s funny. It’s cute. It’s repeated. “Hello Master”. With a smile and a wink, I respond in kind. I raise my glass along with the excited faces surrounding me. To […]
Lauri Aaltonen Recent Graduate from the Masters program in Humanitarian Logistics As I write this blog entry, I have already graduated from Hanken MSc. In the closing phase of my studies, I wrote my master’s thesis (Pro Gradu). Title of my thesis was ´Development of procurement for maintenance spare parts – Case Finnish Defence Forces´. […]
LOGY Conference on 9th February 2023 Lauri Jauhiainen Master’s Student in Humanitarian Logistics at Hanken School of Economics Hanken’s HUMLOG faculty members and students participated in the LOGY conference on 9th February 2023. The conference is arranged annually by the Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics – LOGY, an association with some 4000 individual and 300 […]