Two bachelor students in accounting and financial management, Anna Zhan and Josefin Halvarsson, have been awarded the thesis prize in Business Administration and Sustainability by the Research Institute for Sustainability and Ethics in Business (RiseB.se) at Umeå University. Anna and Josefin wrote their thesis "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Capital: Is CSR priced in the Swedish capital market?" under the supervision of Assistant Professor Florian Eugster in the spring of 2015. Congratulations Anna and Josefin!

Niclas Hellman, Acting Professor at the Department of Accounting, has received research grants from the Handelsbanken Research Foundations for his project “Vad styr företagens val och efterlevnad av redovisningsprinciper? Studier av effekter i samband med införandet av ny redovisningsnormering i Sverige". Congratulations Niclas!

Många detaljhandelsföretag lägger stora summor på kommunikation som ska locka kunder att välja just deras butiken, denna kommunikation blir allt mer digital och social,

Styrelsen vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm har utsett en jubeldoktor och två nya hedersdoktorer. Promotionen äger rum den 21 maj i Stadshuset.

In a recently published article in Dagens Nyheter, Linda Portnoff, Research Fellow at SSE, reflects on the common features of the Panama Papers scandal, the accounting frauds at Enron and WorldCom and the bankruptcy at Baring's Bank.

New policy brief by Jesper Roine, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, explains global economic inequality within and between countries.

Örjan Sölvell from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Torger Reve from the Norwegian Business School (BI), presented a new report about the Nordics at a conference held at SSE on Wednesday, April 20. Innovation, growth, and the connections between Swedish and Norwegian clusters were the main focus at the conference “The Nordics: Partners in Innovation?”

SSE researcher Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall releases a timely report on the Swedish ownership model. The issue is addressed in the report A Sustainable Ownership Structure which has been initiated by the think thank Global Utmaning. It is a study with over 50 policy recommendations that can form a base for a broad discussion around how Sweden is owned.

Lars Strannegård responds to questions about ethics and business education raised by Mikael Holmqvist

It is with great sadness that we learn that Professor emeritus Karl G Jungenfelt passed away on March 26. Our thoughts go out to family, friends and in particular his wife of many years, Monica.