SITE at Stockholm School of Economics and the LSE Institute of Global Affairs organizes a webinar with leading scholars about early lessons from Sweden's approach to COVID-19 on April 22.

Just a few weeks before the exam of the course Global Challenges was to take place, the new Corona virus spread quickly around the globe and brought with it a sudden global economic downturn. The exam had to be adapted to a take-home exam and this generated new and innovative results.

SSE-CERN network members publish an article in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten arguing that mass testing has large potential economic benefits.

This new research project investigates the experiences of leading and managing organizations during the corona virus pandemic, and the societal circumstances that follows in the attempts to limit the spread of the disease. The project follows a number of managers operating in different sectors and countries, and documents their experiences in real time.

Antalet ansökningar till Handelshögskolans två kandidatprogram, Business and Economics och Retail Management, ökar stort jämfört med föregående år. Ökningen för Business and Economics är 15 procent och för Retail Management 26 procent.

Leadership is difficult even during stable and predictable times. Leadership in a crisis is the quintessential leadership challenge. SSE Master students aim to shine a light on different dimensions of crisis leadership.

Coop's Retail Club had an online workshop about how future shopping in physical stores will look like, insights that are highly useful when establishing new stores with long contracts.

ICA ́s Retail Club had the career module with the second-year students. It was run digitally.

Six months after the corona virus first appeared, the world economy is entering a deep economic crisis that could result in political power shifts at global level. The absence of leadership in the US and the EU gives China and Russia increased confidence and leeway, according to Torbjörn Becker and co-author Martin Kragh in their latest chronicle published at Utrikesmagasinet.

Syrian refugees living in Lebanon today are facing limited freedom of movement, limited access to services, and constrained labor rights. For these people, mobile phones serve as essential tools for rebuilding social networks shattered by involuntary displacement.