Debates about the future of management education are intensifying, and researchers are increasingly asking whether business schools need new ways of seeing, sensing, and creating knowledge. At the House of Innovation, scholars and artists are exploring how art can shape knowledge creation, research methods, and imagination in higher education.

What does it take for a former tech activist to become one of the world’s most influential digital policymakers? New research from the House of Innovation shows how storytelling and strategic communication helped Taiwan’s first digital minister Audrey Tang turn outsider ideas into mainstream government policy.

On May 20, 2026, Xiao Liu successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "From Information to Action: A Behavioral Perspective on Supply Chain Transparency for Sustainability." The defense took place in the Lecture Hall at the House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics.

A new study from the House of Innovation shows how multigenerational family firms can use tradition, succession, and stakeholder collaboration to support digital transformation. Based on interviews with 16 Italian family firms, the researchers identify four practical “4E lessons” for navigating digital transformation.

Anna Essén, Associate Professor at the House of Innovation, has spent years studying how organizations overlook uncomfortable information. Her latest research examines the infamous Macchiarini case at Karolinska Institutet to explain a phenomenon she calls “sustained ignoring work.”

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is already affecting Sweden. Around 2,000 ships are currently waiting in the Persian Gulf, delaying deliveries of oil, fertilizer, medicines, and industrial components. For Swedish households and companies, the effects are visible in rising energy costs, supply uncertainty, and higher prices.

Staff and faculty at the House of Innovation are working with students to strengthen technology education across the School. A meeting between the SSE Tech Initiative and the student-led SASSE Tech Committee highlights a shared focus: more hands-on learning opportunities for students.

Cross-industry learning can drive innovation, but implementation is often difficult. At an event hosted by the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics on April 21, researchers and practitioners explored how organizations can adapt ideas from other sectors and make them stick.

On April 22, the House of Innovation and Circular Transparency hosted the launch of AI for Resilient Retail, a white paper co-authored by Nina Shariati, Founder of Circular Transparency, and Associate Professor Rickard Sandberg, Director of the Center for Data Analytics at the House of Innovation.

After Sweden removed inheritance and gift taxes in 2005, private firms with potential family successors grew faster, invested more, and paid higher corporate taxes than firms without natural heirs, according to a new white paper from the Stockholm School of Economics. The study adds empirical evidence in a policy debate often dominated by ideology and comes as several European countries debate inheritance tax reforms.