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New international executive education program focusing on green bonds and sustainable finance

25 June 2019
Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) Executive Education is now launching The Green Bonds and Sustainable Finance Executive Program – an international executive program focusing on green lending, green bonds and sustainable finance. The program is specifically designed to support banks in emerging markets in their transition to sustainable financing – a must to reach the global climate goals. The program is an international collaboration between several of the world's leading financial institutions: initiated by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, co-developed with International Capital Market Association (ICMA), and featuring program design by the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX).

Isak Nilson on art and the educational mission of SSE

12 June 2019
Art makes us free and at ease in an uncertain world. In the latest issue of the Moderna Museets Vänner magazine Isak Nilson from SSE Art Initiative discuss the role of art in relation to the educational mission of SSE aiming at generating reflection, self-awareness, empathy, and cultural literacy. Capabilities needed to face the increased uncertainty in the world of today.

Anniversary and new cohort for the Wallenberg International Fellows Program

12 June 2019
Tthe Wallenberg International Fellows Program has celebrated it's fifth anniversary. The program also presented the new cohort for this year.

Handelshögskolans Erik Wikberg om bildning och känslan av delaktighet

11 June 2019
Handelshögskolans Erik Wikberg är ny krönikör i Vlt. I sin första krönika skriver han om bildning som ett sätt att känna engagemang och ett medansvar för den korta stund vi har på jorden.

High rate of successful alumni companies nominated to the Norrsken Award

05 June 2019
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!

SSE Executive Education still #1 in the Nordics

03 June 2019
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 tops the list of Sweden’s most international universities

29 May 2019
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.

How to make financial analysis more long term; new study

28 May 2019
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.

Men and women seek advice and retaliation to varying extent

24 May 2019
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 on SVT News about her climate activism

24 May 2019
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.