Associate Professor Martina Björkman Nyqvist has been awarded the SSE Corporate Partner Research Award 2020 for her groundbreaking work in development economics. Marie Ehrling, Chairman of Securitas, presented the award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK.

This year's Corporate Partners' Pedagogical Award goes to Dr. Ciara Sutton for her significant accomplishments in pedagogy and student learning. Helena Saxon, CFO of Investor, presented the award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK.

Filip Mellgren was awarded first prize in this year’s thesis competition at the Swedish Competition Authority in the business administration and economics category for his thesis “Tacit collusion with deep multi-agent reinforcement learning”.

Professor Per Andersson at the Stockholm School of Economics has been granted 6 million SEK in funding by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for a three-year research project on AI. The project will create a platform for developing knowledge about key challenges in the implementation of new AI solutions.

Frågan om hur man ser på det nya arbetslivet kan vara väldigt olika inom en organisation. Och bland svenska chefer är det tydligt att den plötsliga förändringen påverkar på olika sätt.

Everyone is currently trying to picture what the future will look like after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, how markets will be shaped, and how products and services will shift to address structural changes in organizations and society at large. However, the future we are facing is uncertain, disproportioned and evolving quickly – we don’t really know, nor can predict, what will happen.

Dr. Emilia Cederberg was awarded the 2020 Oskar Sillén Prize for her dissertation on how fund companies integrate socially sustainable and environmental considerations in their analysis and investment decisions.

“In-Store App Clips: A report of the potential of app clips in H&M’s stores“ written by Sofia Wendt, Velitchko Velichkov, Henric Malm Casslén, and Markus Johansson.

On Tuesday 15 December, at 10:00 CET, Dr Brian Walker (CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; and the Fenner School, Australian National University) asks, if we are to avert disruptive global change, where and how to intervene?