Natalie de Brun and her team will have the chance to win SEK 100.000 for their business concept "Grönska" in the category Energy & Environment in the Venture Cup East final on May 12.

Anna Zhan and Josefin Halvarsson have received a prize for their bachelor thesis -  "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Capital: Is CSR priced in the Swedish capital market?"

Lars Strannegård har av regeringen utsetts till ny ledamot i Svenska Filminstitutets styrelse. Strannegård är rektor för Handelshögskolan i Stockholm samt professor i företagsekonomi.

The Swedish government has appointed Lena Gustafsson, Vice Chancellor of Umeå University, to the board of directors of the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Diploma Ceremony for MSc students 2016 took place in the City Hall of Stockholm on April 9. Approximately 300 students celebrated their graduation and received their well-deserved diplomas from the President of SSE. This was also the time for some students to receive study and thesis awards for their exceptional achievements.

The only Swedish Team to contest in this year’s Hult Prize Challenge is competing in the online wildcard round after being named runner Up at the London Regionals in March. 

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,