“The Soviet millennial kingdom lasted for twenty years”. It’s been a hundred years since the October Revolution in 1917, a revolution that brought an almost religious faith in a bright future, with dreams of a fairer world order. Lennart Samuelson, Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), writes about the new book "The house of government: A saga of the Russian revolution" by Russian-American historian Yuri Slezkine, where the young Soviet state and everyday life after the utopian dreams faded are portrayed.

Klara Nilsson, Oriflame Cosmetics, har utsetts till årets SSE MBA Corporate Partners stipendiat. Hon är Director Global Procurement Finished Goods hos Oriflame Cosmetics. Eller på svenska: inköpschef.

Stockholm China Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics

Center for Business Law at SSE and Vinge law firm cordially invite you to the fourth seminar on Brexit. We are happy to welcome Mr. Alastair Sutton and Mr Philip Moser QC, who will offer their views on a constructive way forward.

Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia and an outspoken critic of President Putin, gave a presentation on the political situation in Russia on the 16th of November at SSE. 

Jens Nordfält, researcher at the Department of Maketing and Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics, was nominated Influencer of the Year at the MarC Gala last Friday.

See the video from last week's Kapuscinski lecture with Jan Eliasson on Global challenges.

Scancor at Stanford University welcomes Pernilla Petrelius Karlberg fo the academic year 2017-2018.

Fredrik comments on retailers' multichannel transformation

Ting Dong has received a scholarship of 335,000 Kr from Revisionsakademin for her project "The impact of audit regulation change on Swedish firms’ tax avoidance behavior". Congratulations Ting!