Hur fungerar bolagsstyrningen i praktiken i Sverige och i övriga Norden? Sven-Erik Sjöstrand, professor emeritus vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, publicerar imorgon tillsammans med kollegor från Danmark, Finland, Island och Norge en bok om hur bolagsstyrningen faktiskt går till i de nordiska länderna. I boken redovisas resultaten från en helt unik forskningsstudie av ägarstyrningen i 36 storföretag.

New policy brief by Ina Ganguli, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, explains the determinants of mobility of scientists and discusses new evidence from a large dataset of elite life scientists.

Global bank Citi takes over as the main sponsor for the scholarship Female Economist of the Year. Spotify was the previous sponsor. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding female student at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Karl Wennberg, Professor at the Department of Management are two of the eight new members presented at The Young Academy of Sweden’s fifth anniversary.

In May Sara Vaerlander and Ingela Sölvell went to Nariobi, Kenya, to interview 20 start-up entrepreneurs and visit incubators in different industries.

Fiona Moore from Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK visits CASL from May, 30th, 2016 onwards.

Näringslivets intresse för Handelshögskolans nya professur är stort. Sedan ursprungsdonationen i januari om 32,5 miljoner kr från två av Wallenbergstiftelserna har flera företag gått in med ytterligare finansiellt stöd.

On May 25 the finalists in the U.S. Embassy Sweden’s Environmental Policy Competition, co-hosted by Misum and Stockholm Environment Institute, presented their papers at a seminar at Stockholm School of Economics. The three teams presented their papers to the jury of experts from the US Embassy, SSE and SEI and the US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji.

The Workshop Leadership Diversity and Inclusion, organized by members of the Project of the Project on Leading Cultural Diversity Ethically has now started!

Fredrika Wiktorin, a student from SSE’s Retail Management Program, has been awarded with the Swedish Trade Federation’s “Ordförandepris” (The Chairman’s Award) of SEK 50.000 for successful study results, great dedication and a genuine interest in the trade and commerce sector