Winning Project: The third-year students in Fazer Retail Club with the report "Experience Fazer Through a Nordic Culinary Journey".

On October 13th, 2023, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Forum for Research on Media and Democracy in Eastern Europe (FROMDEE) hosted an academic conference on “Democratic Backsliding and Electoral Autocracies”. This brief provides a short summary of the keynote lecture and research presentations featured at the conference.

Professor Elena Antonacopoulou spend the week at SSE and contributed to multiple activities to the Center for Responsible Leadership, in connection to our work on Responsibility, the work of Jeannette Eidmann’s dissertation, research seminars, creative discussions and more.

Three members of our team delivered papers and a symposium as part of the wider theme of the event focusing on ‘The Leadership Dynamics of Systems Change’. This was the 21st Conference in the series dedicated to bringing together leadership scholars and practitioners to jointly advance our understanding of leadership.

Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, and Anders Olofsgård's paper on 'Foreign Aid and Female Empowerment', forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies, uses geo-coded data to delve into the nuanced impact of foreign aid on women in Malawi.

An exploration of historical narratives and economic evolution, the recent double book launch of the Classics of Applied History and The Monkey and The Money was hosted by CSSC.

A new art classroom created by the Swedish artist Marie-Louise Ekman has been inaugurated at the school. The classroom contains parts of the artist's own studio, as well as several new original works.

Näva von Rosen, Nina Shariati, and Maria Svensson have been awarded the SSE MBA Carl Silfvén Scholarship 2023. The scholarship is presented to the next generation leaders to promote the competitiveness of Swedish-based business in an international market. They are all grateful for the many new opportunities the scholarship offers.

Listen to international experts in a hybrid Thematic session on Harnessing Synergies and Advancing Indicators: Keys to SDG acceleration, on 22 December 2023, 16:00 -17:30 hrs JST (8:00 – 9:30 hrs, European Central Time). Online registration deadline: 8 Dec 2023

This dissertation investigates the integration of digital and physical technologies in incumbent firms. It reveals how combining agile development cycles and dynamic sourcing creates new development practices, contrasting traditional methods.