Center for Retailing vid Handelshögskolan har nyligen flyttat från Norrtälje till nya lokaler i hjärtat av Stockholm. Lokalerna är helt anpassade till det treåriga kandidatprogrammet i Retail Management som drivs i centrets regi. Den fysiska närheten till Handelshögskolans övriga verksamhet och till partnerföretagen bidrar positivt till både utbildning och forskning.

Stockholm School of Economics has uniquely close ties to the Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Three of our professors currently serve on the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences and each year’s laureate visits our school every December.

The Stockholm School of Economics programs for executive education, IFL Executive Education, will now be completely integrated with the Stockholm School of Economics brand under the new name SSE Executive Education.

The Deans column published today in Financial Times is written by Lars Strannegård on the lessons of Alfred Nobel.

I en debattartikel i Veckans Affärer skriver kvinnliga studenter och alumner att de har tröttnat på att pekas ut som offer. "Skolan är förmodligen en av landets främsta hubbar för kvinnor på ledande positioner."

On November 23 two graduates of the Master Program in Accounting and Financial Management, Sebastian Anesten and Niclas Möller, were awarded the Söderberg Partner Prize for best master thesis in finance. Niclas and Sebastian wrote their thesis "Complex Parsimony in Equity Valuation – An Empirical Assessment of Model Design and the Incremental Effects of Complexity" under the supervision of Professor Kenth Skogsvik in the spring of 2015. Congratulations Niclas and Sebastian!

Henning Christner, at the Department of Accounting, has been awarded the Wallander scholarship from Handelsbanken Forskningsstiftelser. Henning defended his thesis "The Valuable Organisation" on June 12. Congratulations Henning!

Research results that cannot be replicated are a problem in all fields of research. In an international project, researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics have now demonstrated that betting on scientific results could be a way to diminish this problem. 

Cooperation increases in an environment where the risk of disasters and setbacks is substantial. With different levels and types of uncertainties surrounding a disaster, cooperation is higher in countries with different disaster risk exposures - Sweden, South Africa, and the Philippines. 

The Stockholm School of Economic’s investigation regarding the volations of Section 2 of the Disciplinary regulations, in connection with the “heckling” that took place prior to the 2015 elections to the board of the student union, has now been concluded. The temporary suspensions have been lifted and the affected students have received a warning in accordance with the sanctions prescribed in Section 3 of the Disciplinary regulations.