“When we futurists said at the start of the millennium that you should forget mobile phones, nobody thanked us. Nobody thanked us either, when we said that holding on to paper production was a mistake. And nobody is thanking us now, when we say that clinging to cruise ships is a mistake.”
Suvi-Tuuli Helin wrote an award-winning Master's thesis on human resources, and at the same time, she created a framework for her company that combines well-being with human resource management.
In early November, the first meeting of the International University Advisory Board, appointed for Turku School of Economics in the spring of 2013, focused on the present status of Turku School of Economics and the ongoing strategy work. The goal of the development work is to gain a head start in responding to future challenges.
Kristiina Helenius, Anders Aspling, and Markus Granlund
In her dissertation, M. Sc. Elina Pelto examined the effects a direct foreign investment has on the local companies and business networks. The empirical part of her dissertation investigates how Fazer Bakeries established its operations in St. Petersburg’s bakery markets.
The network of a startup is a combination of plans and surprises Valtteri Kaartemo studied a network of an Internet-enabled international new venture in his doctoral dissertation.
PEI is hosting several international visitors this autumn.