Eero Kasanen

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration. Harvard University
• Doctor of Business Administration degree special field Managament Science. Turku School of Economics

Areas of interest

• Corporate governance
• Financial ethics
• Financial strategy
• Management compensation
• Earnings management
• Real options

Eero Kasanen served as Rector of the Helsinki School of Economics for 14 years, then half a year as Dean of the Aalto University School of Economics. He is now on sabbatical, getting back to the world of research, and wondering what to do if he grows up.

Kasanen has served as the Chairman of the Board of Itella, the national mail company of Finland, and as a board member at several other companies. As a result, he has has cultivated an experience and interest in issues such as governance, ethics, incentives and financial strategy.

His educational background includes degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Turku, a degree in natural resource economics from the Turku School of Economics and a degree in managerial economics from Harvard Business School.

In academic research, Kasanen has published on financial ethics, earnings management, real options, financial reporting, dynamics of natural resource utilisation and the history of mathematics. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected publications

• Mäkinen, J. & Kasanen, E. (2016). Boundaries between business and politics: A study on the division of moral labor. Journal of Business Ethics, 134 (1), pp. 103-116.
• Mäkinen, J. & Kasanen, E. (2015). In defense of a regulated market economy. Journal of Global Ethics, 11 (1), pp. 99-109.
• Del Viva, L., Kasanen, E. & Trigeorgis , L. (2013). Growth options as determinants of skewness. ESADE working paper (247). ESADE