The Diploma Ceremony for MSc students 2016 took place in the City Hall of Stockholm on April 9. Approximately 300 students celebrated their graduation and received their well-deserved diplomas from the President of SSE. This was also the time for some students to receive study and thesis awards for their exceptional achievements.

The only Swedish Team to contest in this year’s Hult Prize Challenge is competing in the online wildcard round after being named runner Up at the London Regionals in March. 

Two bachelor students in accounting and financial management, Anna Zhan and Josefin Halvarsson, have been awarded the thesis prize in Business Administration and Sustainability by the Research Institute for Sustainability and Ethics in Business (RiseB.se) at Umeå University. Anna and Josefin wrote their thesis "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Capital: Is CSR priced in the Swedish capital market?" under the supervision of Assistant Professor Florian Eugster in the spring of 2015. Congratulations Anna and Josefin!

Niclas Hellman, Acting Professor at the Department of Accounting, has received research grants from the Handelsbanken Research Foundations for his project “Vad styr företagens val och efterlevnad av redovisningsprinciper? Studier av effekter i samband med införandet av ny redovisningsnormering i Sverige". Congratulations Niclas!

Många detaljhandelsföretag lägger stora summor på kommunikation som ska locka kunder att välja just deras butiken, denna kommunikation blir allt mer digital och social,

Styrelsen vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm har utsett en jubeldoktor och två nya hedersdoktorer. Promotionen äger rum den 21 maj i Stadshuset.

In a recently published article in Dagens Nyheter, Linda Portnoff, Research Fellow at SSE, reflects on the common features of the Panama Papers scandal, the accounting frauds at Enron and WorldCom and the bankruptcy at Baring's Bank.

New policy brief by Jesper Roine, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, explains global economic inequality within and between countries.

Örjan Sölvell from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Torger Reve from the Norwegian Business School (BI), presented a new report about the Nordics at a conference held at SSE on Wednesday, April 20. Innovation, growth, and the connections between Swedish and Norwegian clusters were the main focus at the conference “The Nordics: Partners in Innovation?”