David Moreno, Ericsson, receives the SSE MBA Corporate Partners Scholarship 2017. For the fourth year in a row the SSE MBA Corporate Partners Scholarship has been awarded to a top-talent nominated by the Corporate Partners of the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Board of the Stockholm School of Economics has today decided to award Professor Mette Morsing the new Mistra Chair in Sustainable Markets, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra.

What the biggest businesses and investors decide to do will make a huge difference to whether the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) are met or not, says Misum Board member Robert Eccles. The expert on integrated reporting and sustainable business strategies recently visited Sweden and spoke to Tinni Rappe about the SGDs.

In this policy brief, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, and Reinaldo Diogo Luz, Ph.D Candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) Law School, discuss how to increase the effectiveness of leniency programs in multiple offenses cases, to fight bid rigging and corruption.

Yoshihiro Sato, postdoctoral research fellow at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, has received a grant of 6.1 MSEK from Vetenskapsrådet.

In this policy brief, authors highlight challenges and opportunities that new technologies will bring for energy markets, in particular wind energy, smart grid technology, and electromobility, that were discussed during the 10th SITE Energy Day, held at the Stockholm School of Economics on October 13, 2016.

by Anders Olofsgård (with Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi), SITE Working Paper

Read about the non-profit data for development project Flowminder, co-founded by the SSE/Misum-researcher Erik Wetter, in Huffington Post. 

Russia’s external economic links are too heavily focused on exchanging natural resources for consumption and investment goods, but oil creates too much uncertainty and is not a sustainable driver of growth for Russia or the world. What are the challenges and opportunities for growth in Russia?

The Honorable mention was awarded by the Stockholm Marketing Association.