Elena Paltseva, researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Giancarlo Spagnolo, professor of Economics at University of Rome II and senior researcher at SITE, in their research on public procurement have found out that different types of contracting authorities exhibit rather different behavior. This suggests that the type of public buyer, and associated differences in incentives and outcomes, should be taken into consideration in designing procurement regulation and more general policy-making.

Last week, we were dismayed to find that the “heckling” in connection with elections to the board of the student union at the Stockholm School of Economics included crude and sexist comments. The management of the Stockholm School of Economics takes a very serious view of the jargon that these comments exemplify. 

Nina Åkestam, PhD Student at the Department of Marketing and Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics, has been ranked as one of the most influential and powerful persons in the Swedish retail sector by the publications Market and Icanyheter.

Jenny Keisu, Nordic Capital receives the SSE MBA Corporate Partners Scholarship 2016.

Holgersson, C. & Tienari, J. (2015): “This is just the way it is”: Executive Search and Gendered Careers, in Broadbridge, A. & S. Fielden (Eds.) Handbook of Gendered Careers in Management: Getting in, Getting on, Getting out. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Benschop, Y., Holgersson, C., van den Brink, M., & Wahl, A. (2015): Future challenges for practices of diversity management in organizations, in Bendl, R. et al (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

In two recent articles in the Wharton School Online Journal, Martin Carlsson-Wall and Gabriel Karlberg, both researchers at the Department of Accounting, were interviewed about the success of Swedish start-up companies and the phenomena of so-called clones in the tech industry. Read more here:

The Stockholm School of Economics is launching a new educational program geared towards accelerating integration of university graduates who have recently arrived in Sweden as refugees. 

On November 5 Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) hosted 9th Energy Day - Economic Impacts of Oil Price Fluctuations. Conference presentations on the volatility of oil price forecasts, oil price fluctuations, new climate economy and other topics have been published for everyone interested in the energy field.

The Graduation Ceremony for BSc students 2015 took place in the City Hall of Stockholm on November 7. An occasion for our students to receive and celebrate well-deserved diplomas, and an opportunity to reward outstanding achievements.