Åke Freij has been awarded Handelsbanken's Doctoral Scholarship (Senska Handelsbankens doktorandstipendium).

Anna Dreber Almenberg has today been appointed Professor of Economics by the Board of the Stockholm School of Economics. Anna is a well-established researcher whose interdisciplinary studies in behavioral economics have been published in the world’s foremost scientific journals. In connection with Anna’s promotion as professor, she becomes the holder of the Johan Björkman Chair in Economics.

Today the Financial Times published the 2016 FT Master in Management ranking. Stockholm School of Economics advanced 16 points in the ranking to 28th place in the world.

The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) has received a donation of 50M SEK from the Johan Björkman Foundation (Johan Björkmans allmännyttiga stiftelse för ekonomisk forskning mm). The donation allows for the establishment of a new chair in Economics, which will be named in Johan Björkman’s honor

The Stockholm School of Economics has launched a new focus within its Bachelor Program in Business and Economics. The new educational track is called Global Challenges and entails an expanded curriculum aimed at enhancing students’ understanding of the global challenges facing society, making them wise, compassionate and discerning leaders.

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) är en global kampanj med syftet att öka allmänhetens medvetenhet om hjärnforskningens fördelar och de forskningsframsteg som tas. BAW arrangeras för första gången i Sverige, under namnet Hjärnfestivalen.

In an ongoing research project, researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics and Karolinska Institutet (KI) investigate how women's well-being and economic decision making is affected by the pill. The method is a double-blind randomized study with about 340 participants.

Docent Maria Grafström och professor Lars Strannegård är två av författarna till boken "En berättelse om organisering" som tilldelats Kurslitteraturpriset av Studentlitteratur. Boken har ett nydanande pedagogiskt upplägg, där en skönlitterär berättelse om ett företags tillkomst och utveckling står i centrum.

Magnus Mähring and Pär Åhlström, both Professors at the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics have contributed in the new Routledge Companions book about Lean Management.

Stockholm School of Economics is a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum and, as such, with over 800 other universities, shares and supports a set of fundamental principles of academic freedom. A statement from The Magna Charta Observatory calls upon Turkish authorities to restore, guarantee and protect the institutional autonomy of universities and the academic freedom of academic staff and students.