By Torbjörn Becker and Anders Olofsgård, SITE Working Paper

Senior Economist Dr. Reda Cherif and Senior Economist Dr. Fuad Hasanov, from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gave a presentation about strategies that can help emerging and low-income countries to catch up with the technological frontier and the role of the state and the private sector to achieve innovation-driven growth at the event organised by SITE and Entreprenörskapsforum.

Lena Lid Falkman, forskare på Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, är uttagen till Finalen i Forskar Grand Prix och kan därmed bli Sveriges bästa forskningspresentatör den 28:de november. Tävlingen handlar om att framföra den mest fängslande, inspirerande och pedagogiska kortpresentationen av sin forskning i Sverige 2017.

A large number of fraudulent phishing e-mails impersonating SSE have been sent out using a non-existing e-mail address (hhs@alumni.com) to companies and students around the world.

Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) states that the percentage of female professors at SSE is 8 %. That percentage is incorrect and based on old data. SSE today has 38 professors, 7 of whom are women. The correct percentage is 18.5 %.

Today, November 24th, the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet published #Akademiuppropet where 2400 academics give numerous examples of sexual harassment within higher education.

“The Soviet millennial kingdom lasted for twenty years”. It’s been a hundred years since the October Revolution in 1917, a revolution that brought an almost religious faith in a bright future, with dreams of a fairer world order. Lennart Samuelson, Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), writes about the new book "The house of government: A saga of the Russian revolution" by Russian-American historian Yuri Slezkine, where the young Soviet state and everyday life after the utopian dreams faded are portrayed.

Klara Nilsson, Oriflame Cosmetics, har utsetts till årets SSE MBA Corporate Partners stipendiat. Hon är Director Global Procurement Finished Goods hos Oriflame Cosmetics. Eller på svenska: inköpschef.

Stockholm China Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics

Center for Business Law at SSE and Vinge law firm cordially invite you to the fourth seminar on Brexit. We are happy to welcome Mr. Alastair Sutton and Mr Philip Moser QC, who will offer their views on a constructive way forward.