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Aalto EMBA challenges and stimulates, boosting highly experienced professionals to succeed further in senior leadership roles. The program strengthens and upskills participants’ ability and confidence to lead people and organizations at a top level.
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Aalto MBA is for ambitious professionals who want to take their careers to the next level and transform into business leaders with an innovative and sustainable mindset. It boosts both business and leadership skills and critical and strategic thinking.
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The Aalto Executive Doctor of Business Administration is a structured, doctoral level program in Business Administration for experienced individuals with considerable managerial experience.
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18.01.2023, Annukka Oksanen
Professor Marjo-Riitta Diehl Studies Organizational Justice: "Assumption Is Often a Leader's Worst Enemy"Justice is an extremely personal experience. Professor of Organization and Management Marjo-Riitta Diehl tells journalist Annukka Oksanen how justice ...
13.10.2022, Reetta Räty
Professor Janne Lindqvist Has Succeeded by Doing What He Feels Like Doing - Technology Isn't Separate from HumansLindqvist examines topics related to the interaction between humans and computers. He is now in charge of a new BSc major: Engineering Psychology. A m...
20.09.2022, Reetta Räty
How Can Organizations Strengthen Their Functional Capacity in the Midst of Crises?We've been living through real-life crises for more than two years in a row. In this article, five security experts share their thoughts and learnings...
11.08.2022, Annukka Oksanen
How to Make the Best People Stay?The pandemic changed the ways of working, but also the relationship with work itself. How to find the best people has led to a follow-up question in m...
07.12.2021, Annukka Oksanen
Hybrid Work Is Here - But Are We Trying to Get By in the New Reality with Our Old Ways?The pandemic catapulted our work into the future. Journalist Annukka Oksanen chatted with researchers and workers about the transition into a hybrid e...
22.11.2021, Reetta Räty
Give Me D, Give Me I, Give Me DEIDiversity and inclusion are sought after by companies and TV shows alike. Why have businesses now turned to D and I?
05.11.2021, Annukka Oksanen
Future of Everything - What Do the Surprises That Life Throws Mean for Business?How can we gain a grip on the future when everything is wavering? Journalist Annukka Oksanen talked to four experts, who recommend tools for taking ho...
28.10.2019, Reetta Räty
How to Communicate About Big Changes to Personnel? – HR Director AnswersWhat lies at the heart of HR now that so many of the processes are automated? Journalist Reetta Räty jumped on a train with Kirsi Nuotto from VTT Tech...
28.10.2019, Annukka Oksanen
Future of Meat – Transformation to Plant-based Diet Offers Huge Potential to the Food SectorThe game is on! An estimated 70 per cent of the world’s population plans to consume less meat or quit eating it altogether. Big change offers huge po...
25.10.2019, Annukka Oksanen
How to Choose the Best Possible Leader for Different Situations?Annukka Oksanen interviewed talent management and recruitment experts to find out. The message was clear: it makes more sense to focus on future poten...
25.10.2019, Reetta Räty
Open the Door for CuriosityCuriosity is seen as the new superpower in the workplace, with job ads on the search for “curious employees”. Why does curiosity matter in business?
09.01.2019, Anu Partanen
No Country Is of One MindNobody likes an outsider giving unsolicited advice. So what happens when a Nordic immigrant steps into the middle of a partisan war over America’s fut...
09.01.2019, Leeni Peltonen
Don't Buy too MuchLeena Laitinen is the managing director of Finland’s national alcoholic beverage retail monopoly Alko, heading an organization of 2,400 employees and ...
04.12.2018, Annukka Oksanen
Me, Myself and IPower and success can be intoxicating. What if your boss is an arrogant bragger – in total and utter hubris? Journalist Annukka Oksanen explores leade...
15.11.2018, Reetta Räty
How to Attract TalentsA job offer from Helsinki, Copenhagen, Singapore. Would you be ready to go? Journalist Reetta Räty met people who know how to attract talent and what ...
28.09.2018, Reetta Räty
Luxury 2.0We invited Professor of Practice, Dr. Pekka Mattila to a suite to tell us why a luxury hotel resembles an art museum.
31.10.2017, Annukka Oksanen
Organization: Power lurks in the shadowsWhere there are people, there is power and its quests.
02.10.2017, Reetta Räty
Artist EGS Is Drawing LinesA border between states is the strongest line a human can draw”, says world-touring graffiti artist EGS.
31.08.2017, Ville Blåfield
How to Write – and Deliver – a Great Speech?A powerful speech has a simple recipe: it has to be true. That’s the tip of top speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz.
28.04.2017, Reetta Räty
How to Survive the Growing Pains of a Startup?A fast-growing startup may turn into its founder’s worst nightmare - just another ordinary large company.
Secrets of a Startup: 7 + 1 TipsHow well the advice from the story of Supercell apply in the management and day-to-day life of a startup?
08.02.2017, Annukka Oksanen
How CEO Susan Duinhoven is getting Sanoma through crisisFirst looking at the figures, then hearing out the organization.
17.01.2017, Anu Partanen
Johanna Uurasjärvi made it to the top of American design industry – here’s howTake care of your own brand. If the product doesn't sell, change it. And if in America, smile.
29.12.2016, Ville Blåfield
What makes some cities rise and others fall?Urban planning is the most challenging form of leading the masses.
Bigger data, Better decisions – How to be smartly data-driven?Big data was supposed to be the “new oil” and the smartest thing businesses can have.
02.09.2016, Reetta Räty
Set them freeWhy is choosing the right people one of the most important decisions a company makes?
13.07.2016, Ville Blåfield
Steve Jobs of the OperaJournalist Ville Blåfield examines what modern-day change managers can learn from the controversial operatic genius Richard Wagner.
05.07.2016, Annukka Oksanen and Ville Blåfield
Breaking News – and what to make of them?Can international political events be predicted, and how should company directors react to the news?
23.06.2016, Reetta Räty
Start-up called Singapore: Take a tourIn just fifty years, a poor fishing village turned into a booming metropolis that outshines the rest of the world.
12.04.2016, Ville Blåfield
Case study: Why design business needs a healthy dose of idealism?Mirkku Kullberg talks to journalist Ville Blåfield about the way cultural heritage can be turned into business.
21.03.2016, Reetta Räty
Back to school: Former PM and Nokia Vice President Esko Aho shares his learnings on leadershipEsko Aho, Finland’s former Prime Minister and Nokia’s former Executive Vice President, starts as a lecturer at Aalto University.
21.03.2016, Ville Blåfield
Words of wisdom: Artist Riitta Nelimarkka on art, business, and creative conflictArtist Riitta Nelimarkka is renowned for her strong style and doctoral dissertation that caused a scandal in its day.
30.10.2015, Annukka Oksanen
How to choose a new career path?Journalist Annukka Oksanen and a group of experts examine what a successful career looks like in the 2010s.
27.07.2015, Miki Kuusi
Miki Kuusi: "I've decided each Slush would be my last. But each time I've been left with a hunger for more."How is a small startup gathering transformed into a huge global festival?
14.07.2015, Annukka Oksanen
Change Management: What could a startup teach to a hospital?Managing experts is always a challenge that can get particularly tough when an industry is going through a major tumult.
08.07.2015, Mikko Aaltonen
Can you make money criticizing the capitalism? At least you can do artJournalist Mikko Aaltonen met acclaimed painter Sampsa Sarparanta.
28.06.2015, Reetta Räty
Welcome to Tehran! It might look a bit different than you thoughtIran, hemmed in by the economic sanctions, is an economy of almost 80 million people.
20.04.2015, Ville Blåfield
Hello, Linda! How Did You Do It?Crowdfunding that raises hundreds of thousands of dollars is a sign of something even bigger at play: a true community.
16.02.2015, Ville Blåfield
What can today’s corporate directors learn from British admirals during World War I?According to professor Henrikki Tikkanen, historical and contemporary leaders share a great deal in common.
20.11.2014, Annukka Oksanen & Ville Blåfield
It Takes Three To TangoWhat is the best way to build a good rapport between owners, the board of directors, and the CEO?
09.10.2014, Annukka Oksanen
Business case: Rollin’ with the DanesIn a city of million bicycles, the bike culture has the potential to be big business.
20.08.2014, Reetta Räty
You have to get your thinking backExecutive Coach Ben Nothnagel is Mr. Simple of leadership and self-development.
02.07.2014, Juhani Mykkänen
What can we learn from Supercell’s success?Gaming company Supercell’s net worth went from zero to three billion dollars in three years.
24.06.2014, Reetta Räty
Words of wisdom: Jhumpa Lahiri on east, west and finding happiness in the middleJhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer-winning author whose story moves from India through USA to Italy.