Carl Bennet and the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation join forces to sponsor a new professorship at the Stockholm School of Economics. This enables internationally acclaimed Martina Björkman Nyqvist to continue her important research on development economics and children’s health and education as the new Carl Bennet & Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Chair in Economics.

During the Fall semester, the third-year students in the RM program work on a company project as part of the Applied Retail Track. In 2022, 12 projects were completed on topics such as platforms, metaverse, q-commerce, unmanned stores and check-outs, private labels, inflation, and sustainability.

Abhijeet Singh, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Affiliated Researcher at Misum, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for a project studying social inclusion in private schools in India. His research project is one of only twelve in Sweden to receive the grant this year.

In this new Misum Academic Insight, affiliated researcher Ting Dong looks to understand more about the gender salary gap in the Auditing Profession, using the case study of Sweden.

H&M Retail Club had a workshop on supply chain strategy for its portfolio brands in Liljeholmen.

Clas Ohlson held a workshop focusing on their recent rebranding and the overarching topic of brand management.

Systembolaget held a workshop where the Retail Club learned about how they handle assortment and purchasing, being a monopoly under specific requirements and legislation.

Entrepreneurship & E-commerce Retail Club had a workshop related to current issues at Binary Brains.

The students of the RM program got to listen to Nils Nybonde, Senior Manager in Business Insights at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.

Earlier this year, SSE student Agnes Engelbrektsson Carlson traveled to the United States for an internship at the Swedish Embassy. We asked her how the BSc elective course "Applied History: World Orders and Contemporary Challenges" helped prepare her for the task.