On Tuesday October 4th, the SSE Sport Initiative had its second event of the Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a lunch panel discussion with representatives from the EPOS network, Karin Torneklint and the Swedish Ski Association on the topic of The United Sports Front for Inclusion.

Household finance is a hot topic, considering the current economic crisis. On the latest episode of the podcast Sound Economy, Professor Paolo Sodini discusses assets and liabilities, savings and investments during uncertain times.

With sanctions becoming an increasingly important tool in ostracising autocratic regimes from western markets, the need for effective enforcement of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies is increasing. The global AML regime will be the backbone in detecting evasion of sanctions. This regime has, however, been widely criticised as ineffective. In this brief, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Theo Nyreröd discusses issues with the current AML regime and propose a reward scheme for whistleblowers to enable asset seizures. A powerful feature of their proposal is that it does not rely on the effectiveness of the AML regime.

On Monday October 3rd, the SSE Sport Initiative kicked off its Sports & Inclusiveness Week with a lunch lecture by Karin Torneklint, former Head Coach of the Swedish Athletics Federation, on the topic of Insights from a Career in Sports Federations.

All first-year students in the Retail Management-program visited Axel Johnson/Axfood to learn more about their business.

In a newly published research paper, professor Karl Wennberg and colleagues from Spain, Russia and Lithuania writes about what is known and what is unknown in research on Cultural Diversity in Top Management Teams.

By its very nature the informal sector includes economic activity that lies outside the government regulation or taxation. The environmental degradation produced within the informal sector activities thus present additional challenges. Nearly 35 (15) percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in low and middle income (advanced) economies is generated within the informal sector. According to the ILO more than 6 workers in 10 and 4 enterprises out of 5 in the world operate in the informal economy. CSR's Ranjula Bali Swain and University of Reading’s Uma Kambhampati have recently published a book on this theme.

The venture capital industry is hampered by its own focus on short-term returns, according to the startup incubator of the Stockholm School of Economics. SSE Business Lab is now closing a new 40 million SEK fund backed by Bonnier Ventures and well-known profiles like Anna Nordell-Westling, Sven Hagströmer, Anna Kinberg Batra and Sebastian Knutsson. “Long-term thinking amplifies the potential returns”, says CEO Julia Delin.

The students of the CCEP retail club visited the company office in Jordbro for a workshop.