The Norrsken Award is a possibility for three start-up companies to win tailor made support from world leading advisors McKinsey & Co, Brunswick Group and Mannheimer Swartling. On the current nomination list of 100 Nordic startup companies, more than one third of the companies have SSE alumni as founders, team members, or on the Board of Directors!

For the 19th consecutive year, the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education has been ranked highest in the Nordic and Baltic regions in management and leadership development. Globally, the program has climbed to 16th place from 21st place in last year’s ranking.

Stockholm School of Economics, Chalmers and KTH top the list of Sweden’s most international universities in the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education’s (STINT) annual Internationalization Index.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development constitutes a roadmap for where we, as a society that includes the private sector, need to go in just over ten years until 2030. A study from Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC) and Swesif shows that half of buy-side analysts as well as corporate investor relations officers think that sell-side financial research has a detrimental short-term focus. More than a third of sell-side financial analysts agree with this.

On May 24, 2019 – 100 years to the day after women in Sweden received the right to vote – the first-ever thesis defense in Economics, with only women on stage, is being held at SSE. Emma Heikensten, researcher in Economics, defends her thesis “Motivation and Gender: Experimental studies on Goals, Awards, Advice and Retaliation”.

Bachelor student Cecilia Nyquist is active in SSE Students for Climate Action. Appearing on SVT News she talks about a specific incident that was the starting point for her climate activism.

At today's Global Swede Award Ceremony SSE master student Sejal Gandhi was one of Sweden's top international students to receive a diploma. She is a very ambitious and enterprising student, who, besides attending the program, is engaged in international tax matters and transfer pricing at PwC Sweden. Sejal Gandhi is scheduled to graduate in June 2019.

SSE is so proud of all our Supertalents from Veckans Affärer's list Sweden's 101 Supertalents 2019.

Mattia Bianchi has been appointed Professor of Business Administration, especially Innovation Management by the Board of Directors of the Stockholm School of Economics.

Jan Ståhlberg, who graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1985, has been named as the 2019 Alumni of the Year. The award is presented to a holder of a degree from the Stockholm School of Economics who has achieved professional success, contributed to society and supported the School.