Department of Management Studies

Department of Management Studies

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Department of Management Studies

The Department of Management Studies offers a dynamic environment for scholarship and learning, where cutting-edge research underpins high-quality teaching.

The department educates strategic leaders with a strong ethical mindset for the contemporary global business environments. The research is mainly focused on advancing knowledge and critical scholarship in the broader field of management and organization studies.

Research

At the Department of Management Studies, members of faculty carry out their research in multiple areas, collaborating across disciplinary borders with internationally acknowledged scholars from all over the world. The research strategy of the department rests on the discipline’s core strength in understandings of organisational settings as sites, where decisions are made in the face of potentially incompatible demands.

Headquarters Location Research Project
Quantum Computing – from Labs to Markets

Events

Act of Conferment
Academic events, Other

School of Business Ceremonial Conferment 2026

The 17th Ceremonial Conferment of the School of Business will be celebrated on May 21–23, 2026.
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Public defences

Public defence in Management Science, Taeyoung Kee, M.Sc.

Title of the thesis: “Essays on decision analytics: new approaches for modeling preferences, uncertainties, and data”
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Aalto Creatives Demo Day | May 2026 (external link)

Aalto Creatives Demo Day pitch event in Marsio where pre-incubator teams present their business ideas.
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Staff trainings, Training to support research

Intro to Scientific Computing and HPC 3-5 June 2026

Hands-on course to support your data science tasks, for interns and doctoral researchers seeking computational resources.

News

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Studies Published:

Changes will be made to the School of Business’s bachelor’s programme offering starting in the autumn of 2027

In addition to the Finnish-language Bachelor’s Programme in Business, there are four programmes offered in English
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Cooperation Published:

‘We need to get to work and set the bar high’

Monika Liikamaa has started at the School of Business as an Executive in Residence
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Research & Art Published:

How to attract employees back to the office

Return-to-office policies are popular among employers, but securing employee cooperation hinges on offering them a fair exchange in return for accepting less autonomy.
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Research & Art Published:

Assistance dogs interpret needs of the person they assist non-verbally

A recent study shows that assistance dogs not only help people with practical tasks, but also actively contribute to their care

Contact information

We are located in Aalto University School of Business' campus in Otaniemi

Visiting address

Ekonominaukio 1
02150, Espoo

Department administration

Head of the Department: Professor Nina Granqvist
Assistant: Tiia Melander

School of Business

We strive for better business and better society. We excel in education and research with a multidisciplinary approach and in collaboration with our partners.

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