The payment service company Klarna started in 2005 at the Stockholm School of Economics. Now Sebastian Siemiatkowski returns to the incubator SSE Business Lab as chairman of a new Advisory Board consisting of, among others, Cristina Stenbeck (Kinnevik), Katarina Martinson (Lundbergföretagen), Sebastian Knutsson (King.com) and Mikael Schiller (Acne Studios).

Victor Bao is a second year Bachelor student with a great interest in music which is why he initiated the lunch concerts in the schools Atrium this spring. 

Sweden is a world leader in technology, only beaten by Silicon Valley according to an article in The Telegraph.

The rationale for rating microfinance organizations has changed considerably since microloans were introduced as a way of combating poverty at the end of the 1990s. Today it increasingly embraces models common in the corporate world, Sofia Nilsson Altafi claims in her new thesis from the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Financial Times (FT) are ranking the best Finance Masters program from around the world. The SSE’s Master in Finance was ranked as 12th best in the world, moving up one place from 2014.

The new report by SSE researchers shows that investments in Swedish Fintech companies increased sharply last year.

The underlying motives for the sharing economy is to reduce untapped overcapacity in both goods and services in order to match supply and demand at low transaction costs. As new digital platforms are replacing traditional intermediaries, new structures are created for both society and business.​

Lars Bergman, Professor at the Department of Economics and former President at SSE will be awarded the H.M. the King's medal of the 12th dimension with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphime for his valuable contributions to Swedish society.

We are proud to announce that four of our students at Stockholm School of Economics are the winners of the 2015 Nespresso Sustainability MBA Challenge. This third edition attracted more students than ever before and in total 86 student teams from different business schools and universities participated, from all over the world.