Time: 02.06. – 07.06.2016 Place: Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki Learning Goal and Objectives: This course offers a doctoral level introduction to Empirical Corporate Finance and aims to prepare doctoral students to do research on their own in this field. The course is organized around published and working papers in the filed with an emphasis on econometric…
Time: 03. – 10.10. 2016 Place: University of Vaasa, Wolffintie 34, 65200 Vaasa Learning Goal and Objectives: The course gives an overview of main theories and research traditions in international business research. Students learn about seminal and key studies, history, current situation and future trends of research on internationalization processes, international entrepreneurship, foreign direct investment and international business…
Time: 15. – 18.08. 2016 Place: University of Vaasa, Wolffintie 34, 65200 Vaasa Learning Goal and Objectives: The course focuses on recent developments and issues involved in international and global marketing research, and is divided into six broad thematic areas: overview of international marketing research, consumer buyer behavior, strategy/competitive advantage/performance, multinational marketing strategy, distribution and advertising, and special…
Time: 23. – 24.05.2016 Place: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Learning Goals and Objectives: The course provides an in-depth overview and understanding of the latest developments in branding relating to philosophical underpinnings of branding, advancements of corporate brands via the adoption of identity-based perspectives of corporate brands, and corporate heritage as a dimensions of the corporate identity. Students…
Time: 27.06. – 01.07.2016 Place: Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki Learning Goal and Objectives: Behavioral Finance is an approach to the analysis of asset prices, corporate finance, and financial decision-making in general, that relaxes some key assumptions of neoclassical financial economics. Namely, it considers a larger class of objective functions, not always compatible with expected utility. Second,…
Time: 22. – 25.08.2016 Place: University of Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus, Oulu Learning Goal and Objectives: This course covers selected topics in empirical research in financial analysis. We aim at understanding how accounting research questions are addressed using empirical-archival methods. To obtain a broad understanding of empirical research in financial analysis, it is necessary to read thoroughly, and understand…
Time: 5-6.10 and 26-27.10.2017 Place: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (Arkadia seminar room). Learning goal and objectives: The course aims to develop the participants’ knowledge and skills in conducting qualitative research through exploring how various ideas on reflexivity can increase the quality and creativity of investigations. In principle, there are two major routes to producing credible research texts.…
Time: 15-19 May 2017 Place: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Learning goal and objectives: The aim of the course is to introduce doctoral students in Management and Business Studies to statistical methods for analysing multivariate data. After completing the course, the student is able to undertake high-quality quantitative research in Management and Business Studies, including Accounting, International Business,…
Time: 15.05.–18.05.2017 Place: Brussels Learning goal and objectives: The objectives are three-fold: to broaden the participants’ basic knowledge and skills within the qualitative research, to show the variety within the existing qualitative approaches and to identify methods and methodologies suitable for doctoral research projects. The course consists of readings, hands-on exercises, individual consultation, dialogue and collective learning. Teachers’…
Time and place: Helsinki, Hanken School of Economics, 17. – 21.7.2017 Objectives: The course objective is to enable students to make positive contributions to extant knowledge in their field by enhancing their ability to a) interpret existing research findings, and also b) to conduct rigorous structural equation modelling research themselves. This objective is achieved through two…