"The longer a person is unemployed, the greater the probability that the individual will not return to work at all. And even if we recover from the pandemic, it is not certain that those people will return", Jesper Roine explains the risk of longterm-unemployment in a recent interview in Dagens industri.

Roberto Verganti, professor at SSE's House of Innovation and co-director of The Garden – Center for Design and Leadership, will teach Integrated Design to selected students who participate to the double degree program conducted by the Harvard Business School and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

This year’s Social Innovation Scholarship has been awarded to Anuj Agrawal and Zelmeg Otgontogoo, two talented SSE students. The scholarship is an opportunity for them to spend the summer working for and supporting a social entrepreneur on-site or digitally, and to leverage their business skills to create positive change. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are initiatives aimed to improve what is missing or not working in the social structure: new solutions, methods and ideas that create a sustainable society – economically, socially and ecologically.

This year’s Social Innovation Scholarship has been awarded to Anuj Agrawal and Zelmeg Otgontogoo, two talented SSE students. The scholarship is an opportunity for them to spend the summer working for and supporting a social entrepreneur on-site or digitally, and to leverage their business skills to create positive change. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are initiatives aimed to improve what is missing or not working in the social structure: new solutions, methods and ideas that create a sustainable society – economically, socially and ecologically.

Many daughters and sons growing up in a successful family business and who have their own entrepreneurial ideas struggle to become autonomous from the family’s business. Most research tends to examine how younger, next generation family members build their careers by engaging in internal venturing as a way of growing their existing family business. What is lacking here is research that looks at the ways in which these daughters and sons rely on external venturing, that is, to start their own business outside the existing family business, to achieve greater autonomy and pursue their independent business ideas.

New student at SSE? Congratulations on the start of your exciting journey! The Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at SSE (Misum) welcomes you to the fold. We look forward to engaging with you in your studies and following your progress during your time at SSE!

Now that the European Universities are becoming a reality, it is important to give the students a say. Hilda Hardell from the Stockholm School of Economics is helping to bring student influence to the top levels of CIVICA – and the EU.

What do we need universities for? What type of knowledge should universities be producing? What is the value of a degree from a higher education institution? Describing SSE’s educational mission FREE, President Strannegård advocates the importance of both the cognitive and the emotional aspects or as he states, “sense and sensibility” is the future of education. 

The way that new ventures are financed is very important. It has substantial implications for a company’s survival, growth, and performance. For this reason, a lot of research exists that examines what explains startups’ choices of financing sources, typically drawing on rational economic theories such as pecking order or trade off theories.

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceed what the earth can regenerate in the given year. This year we reach our global limit on August 22. Meaning that from Sunday onwards, we are all using next year's resources.