The Female Economist of the Year 2015 is Anna Lundin. For fifteen years this scholarship has been awarded to a talented female student at the Stockholm School of Economics to inspire young women to become business leaders. 

Erik Wetter, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), is currently developing national mobility estimates for Nepal through a non-profit organization in an effort to assist government and UN agencies in the earthquake relieve effort. 

In a guest column in Veckans Affärer, one of our students describes his experience of a lecture at SSE. He is very critical and describes a type of teaching without wider perspectives on the surrounding world. He argues that economics study programs look upon an economic system detached from the planet we live on. We are well aware that a development of our educational programs is needed and therefore we are engaged in a process of change at a rather fast pace with the help of, among others, Misum (Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets) and Global Challenges.

The prize-winning entries for 2015 were written by SSE students from the Bachelor Program in Retail Management in competition with nearly 50 nominees.

Clas Bergström, Professor in Finance and Law at the Department of Finance at SSE has been elected member of SNS (The Centre for Business and Policy Studies) Board of Trustees.  

In his doctoral dissertation, Kristoffer Milonas finds that family firms, where the controlling family has more daughters, perform better on an environmental dimension. 

The company DigiExam started their operation at SSE Business Lab. Its digital application made it possible for secondary school students to use their laptops when writing their National Examinations in “Svenska C” earlier this year. 

The QS Rankings, which Dagens industri refers to in an article, is interesting. SSE follows the QS Ranking results as well as other ranking lists with great interest.

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at SSE, is one of the researchers who has studied if lottery tickets can be an incentive to practice safe sex as a means to prevent HIV in the African nation of Lesotho.

Today Financial Times published its annual ranking of the world’s premier executive education programs. Stockholm School of Economics IFL Executive Education retains its top position in the Nordic region, while advancing to #31 in the global ranking.