SCANCOR-Scandinavia is a Nordic hub offering senior visiting fellowships (currently by invitation only) to advance organization and management research through collaboration between scholars from Nordic universities and SCANCOR’s U.S. partners, Harvard University and Stanford University. Having brought Nordic scholars to Stanford since 1989 and to Harvard since 2016, SCANCOR is now fostering a reciprocal exchange by welcoming Harvard and Stanford scholars to its Nordic member universities in Denmark (Copenhagen Business School), Finland (Aalto University), Norway (University of Oslo), and Sweden (University of Gothenburg and Stockholm School of Economics), as well as to its associate partners: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, WU Vienna, and ESADE Business School.

Launched on 1 September 2025, the hub was formally inaugurated at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on 24 November 2025 by CBS President Peter Mølgaard and SCANCOR Chair of the Board Silviya Svejenova, together with the first cohort of SCANCOR-Scandinavia fellows. CBS leads the pilot phase (2025–2027), hosting Harvard, Stanford, and Nordic senior visiting fellows while offering research seminars and research development workshops.

Harvard and Stanford scholars interested in visiting one of the SCANCOR-Scandinavia locations are invited to contact our administrator, Lonni Faulch, at lfa.ioa@cbs.dk To register for the SCANCOR-Scandinavia research seminar series, currently held in person at CBS, please email lfa.ioa@cbs.dk

SCANCOR Scandinavia Visiting Fellows (2025–2026)

Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School; Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Ulla Eriksson Zetterquist, Professor of Organization Theory and Management, University of Gothenburg

Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Professor of Knowledge Management, LUT University

Haldor Byrkjeflot, Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo

SCANCOR-Scandinavia Research Seminars (2025–2026)

24 November 2025 – “Collegiality in the Governance of Universities”, Ulla Eriksson Zetterquist in conversation with Nanna Mik-Meyer (CBS)

3 December 2025 – “Research and Practice on Solving Complex Societal Problems in Digital Platforms”, Kirsimarja Blomqvist in conversation with Emil Husted (CBS)

16 March 2026 – “When Differentiation Becomes Bureaucratic Accretion”, Rakesh Khurana in conversation with Eleni Tsingou (CBS)

27 April 2026 – “Liminal Legality: How Abortion Criminalization Creates Conditions for Democratic Backsliding”, Jocelyn Viterna in conversation with Anne Vestergaard (CBS)

1 June 2026 – “The Nordic Model: From Welfare to Warfare?”, Haldor Byrkjeflot in conversation with Anne Roelsgaard Obling (Royal Danish Defence College)