Rön tyder på att stiftelser och andra privata initiativ blir alltmer betydelsefulla i samhället och inom forskningen. Privata forsknings­stiftelser har, till skillnad från traditionell social välgörenhet, länge varit en accepterad form av filantropi i Sverige.

At SSE research center SITE, the war in Ukraine has not just hit close to home for research assistant Hanna Anisimova. It is literally devastating her hometown of Donetsk and threatening the lives of friends and family. But also creating rifts between them.

Between 25th and 26th March, the pre-eminent annual, international sports business conference Scorecard 2022 - Priorities and Potential for a New World of Sport took place in India. The Center for Sports and Business, represented by Martin Carlsson-Wall (Center Director) and Nick Andersson (Director Internationalisation), participated in this summit.

This week, SSE had the pleasure of welcoming Nicolai Tangen to the school. He is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), more commonly known as the Norwegian Oil Fund. Along with other guests such as the Ambassador of Norway, Aud Kolberg, faculty and staff from SSE discussed what Sweden and Norway could learn from each other regarding education, entrepreneurship, and business.

Against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Swedish financial support to Russia has become questioned. Anders Olofsgård, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), explains why we need to understand what that support is actually financing and what its purpose is.

As an alliance of leading European universities, CIVICA will step up efforts to shape the university of the future. CIVICA welcomes IE University (Spain) and SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Poland), thus reaching ten members.

Leaders at several Corporate Partners have been named top 50 leaders in tech in Sweden 2022 by IDG. Two of them are Vahid Zohali, CEO at IBM Sweden, and Liselotte Andersson, working in Strategy and Business Development at Coop.

H&M's Retail Club had a workshop about expansion/growth and sustainability.

On March 23rd, the Stockholm School of Economics had the pleasure of welcoming Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), more commonly known as the Norwegian Oil Fund, who discussed what Sweden and Norway could learn from each other regarding education, entrepreneurship, and business.

SITE researchers Maria Perrotta Berlin and Anders Olofsgård together with SITE research affiliated faculty Raj M. Desai (Georgetown University and Brookings Institution) examine the effect of a country's membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the subnational distribution of World Bank aid. They find support for the hypothesis that aid recipient governments are better able to utilize aid flows for political favoritism during periods in which they are of geo-strategic value to major donors.