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.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) together with research institutes from Belgium, China, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain and UK has started to survey 1000 social enterprises across Europe, Russia and China.

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.

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.

During her visit at CASL, Lotte Holck will present her thesis on Organizing Diversity: an ethnographic study of the structural tensions of organizing diversity. Jun 9th at the Leadership and Organizing seminar series.