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Andreas Johansson takes over as CEO of SSE Business Lab – will strengthen support to sustainable startups

07 March 2023
The Stockholm School of Economics has appointed Andreas Johansson as the new CEO of the School's prestigious startup incubator. He is taking over from Julia Delin, who is leading the School’s fund SSE Ventures. Under Andreas Johansson's leadership, SSE Business Lab will expand its efforts into helping sustainable companies scale up internationally.

Data reveals persistent gender gap in financial research

06 March 2023
Women make up only 20% of researchers working in finance departments at leading universities and their representation decreases with seniority, data from the Swedish House of Finance shows. Sweden has the second highest female representation after Australia, but on the professorial level, it ranks third.

Anders Wall Scholarship awarded to SSE entrepreneur guiding consumers towards sustainable purchases

03 March 2023
Bachelor student Odessa Bäckfors (b. 2000) has been awarded the Anders Wall Scholarship of 200'000SEK. The scholarship is given in collaboration with SSE Business Lab and aims to highlight and encourage SSE students that have excelled in entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

GS1 Sweden joins the SSE Corporate Partnership Program

28 February 2023
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is excited to welcome GS1 Sweden to its Corporate Partnership Program. GS1 is recognized for its pioneering work in creating a global standard for retail checkout barcodes, which has been widely adopted globally.

Executive Education: New International Sustainability Program - In Partnership with HEC Paris

15 February 2023
”Sustainability is a focus area for research at both HEC and SSE, and in combination with our corporate networks participants in this program will get access to outstanding research and practice in an international context”, says Katarina Hägg, CEO at SSE Executive Education.

Two Master students in Economics have won an award from the Swedish Gender Equality Agency

13 February 2023
The Swedish Gender Equality Agency's thesis competition was organized for the first time in 2021. The content related criterion for participation in the competition is that the essay contributes to knowledge about gender equality policy or social development based on the ambitions of gender equality policy.

Myrdal Prize 2022 goes to the Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Economics - Ulrika Ahrsjö

13 February 2023
The prize was established in 1983 as a tribute to Professor Gunnar Myrdal on his 85th birthday. The Myrdal Prize is awarded each year by Swedbank for the best article of the year in the Swedish Economic Association's journal Ekonomisk Debatt.

Corporate Partner award winner Kaisa Koskela-Huotari

07 February 2023
Assistant professor Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, received the corporate partner award late 2022 for her research. Kaisa joined the Department of Marketing and Strategy in April 2021. Her research interests lie at the intersection of service-dominant logic, institutional theory, and systems thinking.

Project in Rwanda receives the Gun and Einar Larsson scholarship

23 January 2023
Students Katarina Li Qiu and Buene Gjana have been awarded the Gun and Einar Larsson Scholarship 2023 (GELS) for their project “The Making of Rwanda’s Physical Education Curriculum”.

First two projects awarded funds from SSE Gender Equality Fund

20 January 2023
The SSE Library, with their project “The diversity & equality book collection”, and the External Relations department, with their project “Female student recruitment”, were the first projects to be awarded funds from the newly established SSE Gender Equality Fund.