It is with great sadness that we learn that Professor emeritus Karl G Jungenfelt passed away on March 26. Our thoughts go out to family, friends and in particular his wife of many years, Monica.

ACE - the Accounting and Financial Management Center of Excellence - was officially launched on April 14 at an event in the auditorium at SSE. Part of the program was a panel discussion with Ingrid Bonde (CFO at Vattenfall), Johan Molin (CEO of AssaAbloy) and Henrik Nilsson (Acting Professor, SSE) on how to develop CFO talent for the future. The discussion was moderated by Assistant Professor Hanna Setterberg. For questions about ACE please contact Tomas Hjelström at tomas.hjelstrom@hhs.se.

On April 9, Tomas Hjelström at the Department of Accounting was awarded the title "Teacher of the Year" by the Executive MBA class of 2014 which graduated this year. It is the sixth time that Tomas receives this distinction. Congratulations Tomas!

Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (Misum) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), is delighted to announce the four new highly competent members of the board of Misum: Robert Eccles, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Ingalill Holmberg, Professor and Director for the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at SSE, Johanna Mair, Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance and Peter Norman, Swedish economist, former Minister for Financial Markets.

Misums communication manager Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe together with 12 science communicators writes about the necessity of creating a network for Swedish science communicators.

We interviewed the winners of the Handels24 Contest, Fanny Söderlund and Nicole Nguyen. Fanny will spend her three weeks of internship this summer at The Boston Consulting Group and Nicole at Diplomat Communications.

New policy brief by Erik Meyersson, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), examines the timing of Turkey’s authoritarian turn using raw data measuring freedoms from the Freedom House (FH).

Lin Lerpold, Executive Director at Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at SSE (Misum),  has been ranked as one of the most influential opinion-formers in Sweden for sustainable development by the leading sustainability magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet.

by Erik Meyersson, Working paper