The venture capital industry is hampered by its own focus on short-term returns, according to the startup incubator of the Stockholm School of Economics. SSE Business Lab is now closing a new 40 million SEK fund backed by Bonnier Ventures and well-known profiles like Anna Nordell-Westling, Sven Hagströmer, Anna Kinberg Batra and Sebastian Knutsson. “Long-term thinking amplifies the potential returns”, says CEO Julia Delin.

The students of the CCEP retail club visited the company office in Jordbro for a workshop.

Lyko had a workshop about how the firm can develop an app and what should be in it in order to attract customers/users.

Systembolaget retail club had a workshop about how to encourage consumers to choose sustainable packaging.

Efter pandemin vill de flesta fortsätta arbeta hemifrån, visar en ny internationell studie. Enligt Lena Lid Falkman, forskare i arbetslivsvetenskap, visar forskning att hemarbete främjar både produktivitet och effektivietet.– Det är den stora myten vi har spräckt, folk jobbar även när de inte är kontrollerade. De levererar hemifrån, säger hon till SVT.

Accenture held a theme lecture in the applied retail track labelled Metaverse X Retail.

Russia’s war on Ukraine entails lost human capital, both in actual lives lost and due to major disruptions to key functions of the society, such as education and research. In light of this, the FREE Network, together with the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), hosted the public conference “Higher Education and Research in War and Peace“ in Warsaw on the 10th of September 2022. This policy brief is based on the presentations and panel discussions held during the conference.

New research from the Department of Accounting examines the gender salary gap in the auditing profession in Sweden.

Fredrik Sixtensson, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, participates in panel on Homer's classic work.

Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall has recently written a third report on the market for social bonds and social outcome contracts and is looking forward to continuing her research in socially labelled financing. She appreciates the development of the social sustainability labelled financial market in the Nordic countries and is hoping for an even greater interest.