Milja Liljeström, 34, Restaurant Manager, Starter Restaurant: Positive people who bring joy to others. Heidi Tawast, 32, Community Manager, Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN): People that support and help me. Here at Maria 01 we have a lot of them. Tuomas Manninen, 37, Chief Happiness Officer, Maria 01: Building steady team spirit with people. Martyna […]
Technology is sometimes portrayed as one of the evils of the world — from nightmares of robots to fear of artificial technology taking over the world, some of us approach technology with more than a conservative dose of scepticism. However, technology has the power to change things big and small, especially in the field of healthcare. Enter […]
Esa Vasara, HappyOrNot’s Director of Business Services, tells about co-operation between HappyOrNot and Greenstep. We use a third-party platform for video embedding on our website. To be able to watch video content, you need to accept third-party cookies. Manage cookie settings “HappyOrNot is a world leader in physical experience management and measurement in the world. […]
We use a third-party platform for video embedding on our website. To be able to watch video content, you need to accept third-party cookies. Manage cookie settings Paptic is an Espoo based startup company, actually originally a spin-off from VTT and our big mission is to replace plastics in the world by a novel, environmentally […]
The average worker spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime — a whopping one third of their entire life. Work is what we spend a huge chunk of our days on and, paraphrasing author Annie Dillard, how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Exactly how, what and with whom we […]
Does happiness play a part in investing? If so, what does it look like? Pia Santavirta: Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) just released a study on impact investing, which is very much tied to wellbeing and happiness. Impact investing is investing in unlisted companies that are both good investments and work towards a more environmentally […]
What is the role of sustainability in investing today? How can you help the Baltic sea? What role can technology play in your daily wellbeing? We discuss these questions, and many more, in our second edition of Notes. Notes is an interdisciplinary publication and in this edition, we focus on topics around the theme of […]
For most of us, making bank transactions is so simple and automatic that it goes unnoticed. Withdrawing money from an ATM is as easy as breathing or walking down the street. We do our weekly grocery shopping with a swipe of a contactless card and pay for mid-sized dreams with a credit card. Starting a […]
Be persistent When we first started out in Finland, we started with nothing. We compiled a list of a hundred Finnish companies that could use our help and trusted our gut instinct that we’d find a few that would be willing to work with us. It was tough. When we finally managed to secure our […]