​Thanks to a close partnership and a donation of SEK 50 million from the Axel Johnson Group, the Stockholm School of Economics will be launching the Antonia Ax:son Johnson Tutorial Program, the largest ever initiative in education and personal development in the history of the Stockholm School of Economics. The donation is the only one of its kind in Sweden, where most public and private funding is usually spent on research and not education.

​Thanks to a close partnership and a donation of SEK 50 million from the Axel Johnson Group, we will be launching the Antonia Ax:son Johnson Tutorial Program, the largest ever initiative in education and personal development in the history of our school. The donation is the only one of its kind in Sweden, where most public and private funding is usually spent on research and not education.

Stockholm School of Economics became a member of PRME* in 2013 and has now submitted its second progress report. It includes an assessment of how SSE is achieving the goals it set itself to improve its education, research and outreach on issues of responsible management and sustainability in the past two years, and its goals for the coming two years.

Do firms with culturally diverse board members behave differently than firms with more homogenous board members? The award winning study by Professor Mariassunta Giannetti with Prof. Mengxin Zhao (University of Alberta) suggests that they do.

NEW PAPER PUBLISHED (2017-06-21): Misum´s Enrico Fontana´s paper "Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism? An empirical study among executives in the Bangladeshi RMG supply chain" is published in European Business Review.

Watch this webcast from a seminar with Misum´s Max Jerneck at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) on Monday June 19, 2017.

The Center for Retailing (CFR) at the Stockholm School of Economics is starting a postgraduate research program that will strengthen retail research both nationally and internationally.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organized a day’s conference on the 13th of June on the topic of the Russian economy. It brought together a number of distinguished lecturers and guests for a discussion on the economy's current and future state in Russia.

Douglas Stark will take over as Executive Director of SSE Business Lab on July 1 and at the end of the year the Lab will relocate to the A-House, the former premises of the school of Architecture.

Kenth Skogsvik has together with SSE colleagues Peter Jennergen, Henrik Andersson, Stina Skogsvik and Håkan Thorsell received a research grant of 2,5 MSEK from Handelsbanken’s research foundations.