Fairouz Hussien, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Marketing and Strategy, and Jan Starmans, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance, receive the award for Outstanding Pedagogical Achievements Spring 2021. With this award SSE wants to highlight and inspire great teachers and contribute to developing pedagogical tools and techniques.

Amanda Lind, Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, visited SSE to learn more about our strategy to embed art in the academic environment of SSE.

Today is the ”International day of failure” – although nobody likes to admit when they’re wrong. Reluctance to own up to mistakes can be even more intense at consulting firms, where being right about things is exactly what they’re selling. Researchers Jonas Dahl and Andreas Werr at SSE decided to analyze organizational cultures of perfectionism, which the researchers termed as “positivity”, and found out that there were big differences between a leadership consulting firm and a communications consulting firm.

The Stockholm School of Economics would like to congratulate the winners of the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021. The price goes to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens.

Vision Zero Cancer and Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS) join forces with SciLifeLab, public sector authorities, regions, healthcare, academia, industry and patient associations to create an innovation milieu that facilitates the introduction of more precise prevention and treatment in cancer care. The research institute SIR at the SSE is the coordinator Vision Zero Cancer.

For the fourth year in a row, Stockholm School of Economics has given out the Alumni of the Year Award and, for the first time ever, the Young Alumni of the Year Award. In 2021, the Alumni of the Year Award is presented to Åsa Riisberg, Investor and Board Member, and the Young Alumni of the Year Award is presented to Marina Dirks, Director - Global Sustainability at Tiffany & Co.

CIVICA - A growing number of students and (post)doctoral researchers across the alliance are benefitting from the newly launched programmes and offers.

Earlier this year, The Stockholm School of Economics and their venture incubator SSE Business Lab launched the new program Ideate, intended to encourage more students to start their own companies. Now the program is back, and with entrepreneurs who have founded companies like Oatly, Karma and Kobalt Music, the program is once again filled with some real star power.

SSE’s Master in International Business ranks eight out of 100 in the world, according to the latest Financial Times Master in Management ranking.

We are delighted to soon welcome students, colleagues, and external visitors back to the SSE campus!