The conference was held on June 8-9 and brought together some of the leading figures who have played a role in shaping contemporary economics to do a major stocktaking of economics and also to look ahead at the challenge of global development .

SSE aims to lift its international position within business, economics and law by offering educational opportunities to potential students. We have recently had several opportunities to interact with various Chinese organizations.

Raghuraman Rangarajan, a student at the MSc Program in General Management at SSE, was one of the international top students receiving the Global Swede Award 2016 at a diploma ceremony taking place at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs recently.

Buildsafe, one of SSE Business Lab’s start-up companies, once again became a successful winner of a prestigious award when the company last week was nominated the overall national winner of Venture Cup’s award "Sweden's Next Growth Company".

Hur fungerar bolagsstyrningen i praktiken i Sverige och i övriga Norden? Sven-Erik Sjöstrand, professor emeritus vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, publicerar imorgon tillsammans med kollegor från Danmark, Finland, Island och Norge en bok om hur bolagsstyrningen faktiskt går till i de nordiska länderna. I boken redovisas resultaten från en helt unik forskningsstudie av ägarstyrningen i 36 storföretag.

Global bank Citi takes over as the main sponsor for the scholarship Female Economist of the Year. Spotify was the previous sponsor. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding female student at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Karl Wennberg, Professor at the Department of Management are two of the eight new members presented at The Young Academy of Sweden’s fifth anniversary.

Näringslivets intresse för Handelshögskolans nya professur är stort. Sedan ursprungsdonationen i januari om 32,5 miljoner kr från två av Wallenbergstiftelserna har flera företag gått in med ytterligare finansiellt stöd.

– continues to improve in the Financial Times’ annual ranking 

Fredrika Wiktorin, a student from SSE’s Retail Management Program, has been awarded the Swedish Trade Federation’s “Ordförandepris” (The Chairman’s Award) of SEK 50.000 for successful study results, great dedication and a genuine interest in the trade and commerce sector.