Hanken Executive MBA

With a Hanken Executive MBA, you will gain insights and tools to make an impact in any business setting. The programme enables you to strengthen your strategic decision-making and leadership skills, equipping you to create value for yourself, your organisation and your customers, as well as other stakeholders. We believe in the strength of dialogue, face-to-face interaction and relationships. We recognise the individual in a group, our groups are small and our faculty and experienced lecturers are strongly dedicated to our programme.

Content & structure

The EMBA programme has optional entries and you can choose to start in October or March. For a tailor-made programme start, please contact the EMBA team. The programme includes part-time studies for 18-30 months in 16 modules, including 50 in-class days of which 36 during weekdays. It is possible to join the modules at Hanken School of Economics downtown Helsinki or virtually via Teams/Zoom. International modules are held in Riga and Boston. As it is a part-time executive programme, the Hanken EMBA programme makes it possible for the participants to work during their studies. The Hanken Executive MBA programme is structured around a few key topics:

Strategic leadership

With the help of the modules in strategy and leadership, you will improve your ability to identify ideas of strategic importance and act on them. The leadership development sessions will support participants’ personal development process throughout the entire Executive MBA programme. By continuously challenging participants to uncover new insights, the sessions aim at preparing participant’s for demanding leadership situations and enhancing their critical leadership skills and capabilities. You will also gain an increased understanding of change and how to manage and drive change in complex and competitive business environments.

Programme modules include scenario thinking, corporate geoeconomics, strategic corporate branding and marketing, strategic capabilities, strategic leadership, industrial and corporate change, mergers and acquisitions, organising for resilience, strategic HRM, and strategic thinking.

Service business and innovation

Hanken School of Economics is a forerunner in services management. The modules in entrepreneurial and service approaches will provide you with the insight of transforming your business from a product-oriented to a solutions-oriented business – always keeping the customer at the centre of your business model.

Programme modules include sense-making of market disruptions, service business approach, service and relationship orientation in purchasing, sales and pricing, market and business model innovation, as well as entrepreneurial mindset.

Finance and controlling

Any person with aspirations for a position in top management needs to understand the numbers behind operations and to put them into a bigger context. In the modules on strategic finance and controlling you will gain insight of key figures and how to interpret them, pricing strategies, how to apply sound and sustainable financial solutions to your business, as well as systems to control you business.

Programme modules include financial accounting, integrated reporting, management accounting, management control systems, value based management, corporate finance, evaluations in mergers and acquisitions, wealth management, financial management, and financial intermediation and risk management.

Sustainable business in a global context

Learning how to merge individual business activities into a larger context, where international competition, sustainability and corporate social responsibility influence your organisation is vital.

Programme modules include corporate social responsibility, sustainable supply chain management, digitalisation of business, AI, and data analytics, business analytics, intellectual property rights and micro- and macroeconomics.