Minna Halme

Minna Halme is professor of Sustainability Management at Aalto University School of Business, where she heads Sustainability in Business Research. Her research focuses on co-creation of sustainability innovations, sustainable business models, circular economy and organizing for poverty alleviation in low-income emerging market contexts. She leads strategic multi-disciplinary research projects on sustainability transitions and has co-led several European research projects. She teaches Sustainability Management at Aalto’s Master programmes, and executive education. She is Associate Editor of Organization & Environment, and member of editorial boards of Business Strategy and Environment, Technovation, and Scandinavian Journal of Management.

She is member of Finland’s Sustainable Development Expert Panel advising the Finnish Government and of Advisory Boards of Finland’s largest retailer SOK, the Central Chamber of Commerce, and Sustainability Centres of University of Helsinki (HELSUS) and Stockholm School of Economics (MISUM). She is co-founder of Aalto University’s cross-disciplinary Creative Sustainability Master programme and Aalto Global Impact. Her work has been acknowledged international recognitions such as the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) Distinguished Winner award, Best Paper annual award of the journal Business & Society, Academy of Management (AOM) All-Academy Best International Paper award, the ONE Unorthodox Paper award and three AOM Best Paper awards. She has received the Academy of Finland and Kordelin Foundation awards for the societal impact of her research.

sub.aalto.fi/ Sustainability in Business Research Group

finix.aalto.fi/ Co-creating sustainable textile systems

https://fortran.fi/ Just and resilient transitions in forest systems

http://acs.aalto.fi/ Creative Sustainability Master programme

http://newglobal.aalto.fi/ Co-creating poverty alleviation