Length of life is increasing in most populations and it is necessary to raise employment to finance pension payments in the future. As a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Johanna Wallenius will investigate the effect of government programs on individual decisions, particularly employment.

On the 28th - 29th of November, 2014, SITE hosted the first ASWEDE conference on development economics. 

Florian Eugster, Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting, has been awarded the Wallander scholarship from Handelsbanken Forskningsstiftelser. Congratulations!

Ingela Sölvell will tell us more about researchers' roles and methods in the symposium Interaktionen vid uppdragsforskning on December 12th

Eva Hagbjer from the Department of Accounting will defend a Ph.D dissertation entitled “Navigating a Network of Competing Demands: Accountability as Issue Formulation and Role Attribution across Organisational Boundaries” on December 10. The defense takes place in room 720 at 13:15 on Wednesday December 10. The discussant is Professor Inger Johanne Pettersen, Trondheim Business School.

SSE Professor Kenth Skogsvik was recently elected along six others to Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA. Congratulations!

Congratulations to SSE researchers Florian Eugster and Sven-Olof Junker who were awarded two of the 23 Wallander Scholarships.

Christopher Duncan, Category Director Dishcare EMEA, Electrolux AB, receives the SSE MBA Corporate Partners Scholarship 2015.

No less than three companies from the School's business incubator, SSE Business Lab, brought home the first, second and third place in the Business Challenge competition.

Sara Rosengren, Associate Professor of Marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics, was awarded the Corporate Partners Research Award 2014 at the Corporate Partners Annual Meeting on November 19. The prizewinner received a grant of 100 000 SEK and was presented by Carl-Johan Bonnier, Chairman of Bonnier AB.