Rapid growth since 2005

In 2005 Hanken School of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics IFL Executive Education, founded in 2005, made a brave decision to find out if two strong business schools could cooperate in executive education.


The coming years showed that, indeed, they could, and on January 1st 2010, the cooperation resulted in the jointly owned limited company Hanken & SSE Executive Education. As far as we know, two business schools in different countries with a joint daughter company is something unique, with no comparable cases even globally.

Why has the cooperation been so successful? Mainly because the market, our clients, immediately showed its appreciation for this alliance by demonstrating a strong demand for our services. Large, internationally active Nordic companies have  appreciated the possibility to work with two well renowned business schools; the network of experts we can offer, our presence in the Baltic-rim region through our SSE sister companies, our international profile and program content – but still having us close by, easily approachable, and easy to work with.

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