Professor Tore Ellingsen held a much appreciated speech yesterday to Professor Deaton, the laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

​In the Financial Times European Business School ranking for 2015 ​ SSE remains the top school in the Nordic region. 

Chile is one of several national contexts in which early stage entrepreneurial networking will be explored. In beginning of November, two of the team members, Sara Värlander and Ingela Sölvell interviewed more than 20 startup founders, government representatives, incubator leaders and VCs during a first field trip. Several interviews were conducted within ‘Socialab’, an incubator for NGOs. Socialab (picture) is located inside ‘Idea Factory’ in Santiago including a range of innovation initiatives. 

The Board of Directors at the Stockholm School of Economics has appointed three new professors; Robin Teigland, Hans Kjellberg and Magnus Mähring.

Center for Retailing vid Handelshögskolan har nyligen flyttat från Norrtälje till nya lokaler i hjärtat av Stockholm. Lokalerna är helt anpassade till det treåriga kandidatprogrammet i Retail Management som drivs i centrets regi. Den fysiska närheten till Handelshögskolans övriga verksamhet och till partnerföretagen bidrar positivt till både utbildning och forskning.

Stockholm School of Economics has uniquely close ties to the Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Three of our professors currently serve on the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences and each year’s laureate visits our school every December.

The Stockholm School of Economics programs for executive education, IFL Executive Education, will now be completely integrated with the Stockholm School of Economics brand under the new name SSE Executive Education.

The Deans column published today in Financial Times is written by Lars Strannegård on the lessons of Alfred Nobel.

I en debattartikel i Veckans Affärer skriver kvinnliga studenter och alumner att de har tröttnat på att pekas ut som offer. "Skolan är förmodligen en av landets främsta hubbar för kvinnor på ledande positioner."

On November 23 two graduates of the Master Program in Accounting and Financial Management, Sebastian Anesten and Niclas Möller, were awarded the Söderberg Partner Prize for best master thesis in finance. Niclas and Sebastian wrote their thesis "Complex Parsimony in Equity Valuation – An Empirical Assessment of Model Design and the Incremental Effects of Complexity" under the supervision of Professor Kenth Skogsvik in the spring of 2015. Congratulations Niclas and Sebastian!