Blog texts by Haagahelians
21.11.2018
During the last ten years Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, School of Vocational Teacher Education has operated abroad in many countries. Co-operation in South Africa, Pretoria started in 2015, when representatives from Tshwane University of Technology visited Haaga-Helia. The university was interested in developing pedagogical skills and the ideas of their teachers. Haaga-Helia’s pedagogical teacher […]
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China as an e-commerce market is world’s biggest single market. Chinese e-commerce figures are impressive. The market has 927 million active internet users, out of which 84 % shop thru mobile device.
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12.10.2018
The new information created by the continuous changes of the markets is typically not available to everyone at the same time. Sometimes the information is available to the entrepreneur, but not to the buyers and sellers. This type of asymmetric information is a key enabler of new entrepreneurial opportunities. But how can the entrepreneur leverage this information and collect the profits?
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12.10.2018
Researchers have identified a number of cognitive properties, traits and motivational drivers shared by entrepreneurs. These qualities can be seen in individuals who identify and choose to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. This blog post focuses on the individual qualities that entrepreneurs share, and the ones that might be beneficial for their success.
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19.6.2018
Collaboration between the universities of applied sciences and the working world has been the talk of education professionals for over 20 years. The EU as well as the Finnish government, and especially the Ministry of Education and Culture, have pushed the universities towards closer cooperation with companies and projects where the students get the chance […]
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9.5.2018
Language is a very complex hierarchical system. Ferdinand de Saussure compared language to the rules of chess. The speech (parole) in his comparison is similar to how the player chooses the moves of the chess pieces in the game. But speech itself doesn’t have that much direct impact on our working environment, but concrete body […]
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Working life is changing radically, that is not news. Careers are diverse and divided into multiple phases. One’s ‘shelf life’ in an organisation only gets shorter. A person might have several employers at the same time. One of them might offer a job – but only if the person has their own company. That could […]
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14.3.2018
At Haaga-Helia UAS we run several software project courses, where software engineering students build software for real clients. In autumn 2017, we started a school project for building mobile learning applications for two Finnish education technology companies, Viope and Promentor Solutions. The goal was to help them expand their operations to Brazil and possibly to […]
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9.3.2018
Learning through mind and body
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Imagine you are walking outdoors. It´s bitterly cold, and there’s a fierce storming with hard rain blowing straight into your face. You can see and hear it, but the experience is most acutely felt on your skin. Our skin and the whole body have this most amazing memory. Every single experience builds up in the […]
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1.3.2018
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are getting their momentum to become a major mass media. AR, as a supporting technology, has been around for many years. However, popular smart devices, such as smartphones, have so far failed to provide a friendly experience for AR applications. In recent years, applications such as Pokémon and […]
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15.2.2018
“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love.” Mark Cuban, billionaire and serial entrepreneur. Is there some kind of madness or obsession what drives people to start a company? Probably you would say yes, if you think about great entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney or Henry Ford. They were stubborn, […]
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23.1.2018
At the Slush 2017 event in Helsinki former Formula 1 driver Mika Häkkinen gave a very impressive presentation where he explained what it meant to drive a Formula 1 racing car. He explained that it took seven years before he won his first Grand Prix, and during these years he had to fight against himself. […]
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