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Nokia Green Mobility Business Project: Eco-driving most potential for reducing carbon emissions
14.05.2012 The results of the Nokia Green Mobility Project conclude that applications of the 11 countries analysed USA has the largest potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions via the uptake of mobile. Also the CO2 abatement potential is globally significant.
Doctoral dissertation: Economic crises are managed with collective collateral
10.05.2012 Economy is often understood as a market-controlled phenomenon. When solutions are sought to economic problems, the phrase “the markets have spoken” is used as a justification for the decisions made. The markets are an important control mechanism but they alone cannot explain the functioning of the economy.
Päivi Karhunen from CEMAT selected as Academy Research Fellow
08.05.2012 The Research Council for Culture and Society of the Academy of Finland has selected 16 new Academy Research Fellows for the funding period of 2012-2017.
Political connections and zoning of ABC service stations
04.05.2012 Heli Huvinen's Finance Master's thesis “Easy as ABC? Political connections and zoning of service station stores” investigates whether the political connections of the S Group coincide with more favorable zoning decisions for the S Group owned ABC service stations compared to the service stations of their less politically connected peers.
Doctoral dissertation: Effective knowledge transfer and creation promote internationalisation in SMEs
03.05.2012 In small and medium-sized companies, investments in knowledge transfer and creation promote internalisation. Knowledge is transferred both through internal and external transfer, i.e. between the various actors within the company and outside it, such as customers and other companies.
Admission results of the Master´s programmes published
27.04.2012 The admission results of the Master's programmes at Aalto University have been published on 27 April.
Dissertation sheds light on hedge fund activities
25.04.2012 Hedge funds have always been considered mysterious and in public dialogue their activities occasionally take on nearly mythical proportions. M. Sc. (Econ.) Petri Jylhä's doctoral dissertation sheds light on hedge fund activities and shows that these funds have both positive and negative impacts on investors and financing markets.
Finnish officers fall short of being clausewitzian strategists
19.04.2012 In his doctoral dissertation, Mika Aalto, MSc (Econ.), examines the capacities of Finnish officers to occupy leading strategic roles in the national Defence Force. Vom Kriege ("On War"), the war and strategy theory of the most important war strategist of all time, Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) forms the backdrop for the study.
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