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Inclusive leadership
03 June 2020
Inclusive leadership for the ethical management of cultural diversity, by Laurence Romani and Charlotte Holgersson
This chapter is published in the Research handbook of global leadership: making a difference, edited by L. Zander
Cost overrun and procurement competence in Sweden
03 June 2020
Sweden lacks both statistics and skills that enable better procurement. A statement by SITE's researcher Giancarlo Spagnolo in a new report that calls for better education and career opportunities for public procurers in an interview with Dagens Samhälle.
On the optimal ‘lockdown’ during an epidemic
03 June 2020
Network member Dirk Niepelt and coauthor Martín Gonzalez-Eiras embed lockdown choice in a simplified SIR model and solve for the optimal length and intensity of lockdown, assuming a trade-off between health and output.
Dissertation defense by Sofie Sagfossen
03 June 2020
Sofie Sagfossen (DMS) will defend her PhD dissertation on June 5.
Being European: The need for higher education leadership
03 June 2020
A joint statement on social sciences in a time of crisis, from the Presidents of the partner institutions of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences.
Entrepreneurship, innovation, governance and family business: meet Professor Mattias Nordqvist
02 June 2020
Mattias Nordqvist joined SSE’s House of Innovation in January 2020 as a professor of Business Administration with a focus on entrepreneurship. We have asked him some questions to get to know him better!
Swedish export during the Covid crisis
02 June 2020
Exports are important for the Swedish economy. Measures to counteract the spread of the corona virus in the form of closed borders and strict restrictions have slowed global trade. What are the consequences of the corona pandemic for international trade and the global supply chains? How seriously are Swedish exports affected? And how do companies handle the challenge?
Op-ed in Svenska Dagbladet: Sweden needs more tests
01 June 2020
In an op-ed in Svenska Dagbladet, Herman Holm (psychiatry) and network member Daniel Spiro (economics) outline society’s broad needs for testing. They mention four aspects of the crisis that can be alleviated by extensive testing: medical, mental health, economic, and information-based decision-making. Taking these aspects into account the conclusion is that Sweden’s current ambition of 100 000 tests per week needs to be increased manifold.
Forecasting the local progression of the Covid-19 epidemic
30 May 2020
Combining ideas from several fields of mathematics - tropical geometry, Perron-Frobenius theory, probability and optimisation, transport PDE in population dynamics - a new study provides an algorithm to monitor the epidemic based on medical emergency calls.
Socio-economic assessment of infection control measures
30 May 2020
A new report written by an expert group chaired by Steinar Holden and commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health assesses the socio-economic effects of infection control and prevention measures.