Homecoming Day 2023
Homecoming Day is the biggest alumni event of the School of Business. The event offers inspiring discussions on current topics as well as a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends.
School of Business alumni events
We organize many alumni events at the School of Business. In the alumni events, you have an opportunity to increase your knowledge, meet your fellow alumni and build new networks. Join our alumni community to get invitations to our alumni events!
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Homecoming Day
The biggest alumni event of the School of Business - Homecoming Day - is organized usually every second year. The previous Homecoming Day was organized on 27 January 2023. The School of Business Alumnus/a of the Year will also be announced at the Homecoming Day.
Photos and videos
Photos and videos from 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2023 Homecoming Day events
School of Business Ceremonial Conferment 2022
School of Business celebrated its 16th Ceremonial Conferment of Doctorates and Master’s Degrees at the old Main Building, currently known as Aalto Töölö, in Runeberginkatu, Helsinki. The Ceremonial Conferment was from May 12 to 14, 2022. The ceremony in 2022 conferred master's degrees on new alumni (promovendi) with graduation dates between 19 March, 2016 and 31 March, 2022 and doctorates on alumni with graduation dates between 29 April, 2016 and 30 April, 2022. In addition to these young promovendi, jubilee masters and doctors from 1971 and the new honorary doctors of the School of Business were conferred at the ceremony.
Ceremonial Conferment of School of Business
The Ceremonial Conferment of Aalto University School of Business was held at Aalto Töölö, in Runeberginkatu, Helsinki, from May 12 to 14, 2022.
The 16th Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees at the School of Business was celebrated
See a few pictures from The Act of Conferment and the Procession
Elina Mäkelä is the Spirit of Mercury at the 16th Ceremonial Conferment of the School of Business
She is the daughter of Provost Kristiina Mäkelä, one of the longest serving professors at the School of Business
Better Business - Better Society Seminar Series
Better Business — Better Society seminar seriesoffers opportunities to learn about current societally important topics at the School of Business. We invite our collaborators, supporters and alumni to the seminar at the School, and everyone else interested in the topic to follow the live stream via Youtube. The seminars are arranged monthly, generally on the first Thursday of the month, excluding holiday seasons. The seminars are held either in Finnish or English. The seminar speakers are professors from our School and guests from the business sector.
Better Business — Better Society Seminar Series
The Seminar Series discusses the current and societally important topics at the School of Business. The seminars will be arranged monthly, generally on the first Thursday of the month, excluding holiday seasons.
Jaakko Honko lecture
Jaakko Honko lecture is organized every second year. The next Jaakko Honko lecture will be organized on 21 September 2023. Invitations to the School of Business alumni who are in the alumni register will be sent in the end of summer 2023.
Finland’s cost competitiveness is poor, says Björn Wahlroos in Jaakko Honko lecture
The lecture that carries the name of Chancellor Jaakko Honko was held as a remote event this year.
Jaakko Honko remote lecture
Aalto University School of Business webinar 30.9.2021.
Read news about School of Business events
The School of Business’ Homecoming Day invited alumni to Otaniemi for the first time
In his presentation, the keynote speaker of the seminar, Pekka Lundmark, CEO of Nokia, emphasised the importance of co-operation
The 16th Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees at the School of Business was celebrated
See a few pictures from The Act of Conferment and the Procession
Elina Mäkelä is the Spirit of Mercury at the 16th Ceremonial Conferment of the School of Business
She is the daughter of Provost Kristiina Mäkelä, one of the longest serving professors at the School of Business
‘It’s spectacular to be part of a centuries old European academic tradition’
Jyrki Wallenius, Jubilee Master, would not miss a magnificent conferment ceremony, no matter what
Finland’s cost competitiveness is poor, says Björn Wahlroos in Jaakko Honko lecture
The lecture that carries the name of Chancellor Jaakko Honko was held as a remote event this year.
A glimpse of the future through lenses of today
With the coronavirus pandemic still impacting our lives in different areas, Aalto created an opportunity to know future perspectives through its alumni community's lenses.
Aalto University's 10th anniversary was celebrated on 10 October
After Aalto University President Ilkka Niemelä's greetings, Alumni Studio featured three Aalto alumni discussing sustainable development and the most pressing global challenges of our time. The event was concluded with an entertaining science show where Aalto's top researchers stepped into the limelight to explain why their research is important right now.
School of Business cancels Homecoming Day alumni event for 2020
The Alumnus or Alumna of the Year for 2020 will be made public at the Aalto 10 – Alumni Studio & Science Show remote event on 10 October.
The next Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees at the School of Business will be celebrated in May 2022
Due to the COVID-19, the Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees has been postponed to May 2022.
Risto Siilasmaa, who delivered the Jaakko Honko lecture, recommends studying quantum computing and machine learning
The lecture, named after Chancellor Jaakko Honko, brought together more than 300 School of Business alumni to Ekonominaukio 1.
According to Homecoming Day, continuous learning will be expected from business school graduates in the future
Alumni populated the main building of the School of Business in Töölö for the last time.
Masters’ Gala gathered School of Business graduates to meet and mingle with old and new friends
Masters’ Gala was organized for the second time to celebrate the School of Business graduates.
Masters’ Gala gathered School of Business graduates together to celebrate
Masters’ Gala was organized for the first time by the School of Business and KY. The idea is to bring back the graduates, celebrate their big achievement and strengthen the sense of community.
Nearly 400 alumni brought together by the Jaakko Honko Lecture
The public lecture brought the alumni to the School of Business to listen to Erkki Liikanen. In addition, the Jaakko Honko Medals were awarded at the event.
Homecoming Day brought hundreds of alumni to Töölö Campus
Former President Martti Ahtisaari emphasised in his speech the importance of higher education for society.
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