International Strategy and Sustainability Hanken School of Economics

Overview

International Strategy and Sustainability at Hanken School of Economics offers a unique experience in understanding how sustainability issues can and should be integrated in core strategies of contemporary organizations. This boundary-crossing programme helps students to identify and manage organizational, governance, and sustainability challenges in various economic, social, environmental, geographic, institutional, cultural and linguistic contexts.

Studying within the master’s programme in international strategy and sustainability, you will learn to:

• Apply a variety of approaches to strategy and strategy work in various kinds of organizations.

• Identify and manage organizational, governance, and sustainability challenges in various economic, social, environmental, geographic, institutional, cultural and linguistic contexts.

• Recognize opportunities for organizations to integrate sustainability issues with international strategy.

• Employ independent and critical thinking to enhance decision making in different organizational settings.

Possibility of ENGAGE.EU ‘Global Sustainability Management’ year

As an alternative to the main track of International Strategy and Sustainability, 10 students will be selected for ENGAGE.EU’s ‘Global Sustainability Management’ track, where one semester abroad (at one of the ENGAGE.EU partners) is mandatory.

Accreditation

Hanken School of Economics is a leading university with over 115 years of experience in research and education in economics and business administration. Hanken holds the three most prestigious accreditations for business schools, EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, which only one percent of business schools worldwide have achieved. MSc is ranked by Financial Times as well (n60 in 2025).