We are happy to announce that Joshua Maine, PhD candidate at Jönköping Business School and affiliated with the Center for Municipality Governance, has successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations, Joshua!

This week, the Management Diploma for Athletes (MDA) students had the privilege of hearing Emelie Öhrstig share her inspiring journey - from elite sports to a thriving career in the business world.

We are looking for someone who has worked as a Premises Caretaker/Facilities Technician to join our facilities department.

Inventors don’t just need to borrow ideas—they need to understand where those ideas came from. A new study published in the Journal of Business Research by House of Innovation researcher Holmer Kok introduces the concept of “trajectory integration” to explain how tracing an invention’s full history can lead to more powerful and impactful innovation.

Retail Management students in E-Commerce Retail Club participated in a workshop with eComID and SSE alumna Erika Markör about managing high return rates in fashion e-commerce.

Finnish politicians are on average more intelligent, motivated, and honest than the general population. Jaakko Meriläinen, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors show in a new study that both local and national politicians demonstrate higher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities, suggesting that voters and parties effectively select capable leaders.

Governments spend billions on procurement, but can these contracts be a tool to drive innovation? A new study co-authored by Giancarlo Spagnolo, professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), explores the effectiveness of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI). Forthcoming in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the study finds that while PPI can foster innovation—especially for small and young firms—major challenges remain in policy design and implementation.

On Friday, March 21, the Swedish Olympic Academy hosted its first Open Friday on the theme Elite Performance & Balance – Take Care of Yourself.

At Allsvenskan's annual kick-off event, Martin Carlsson-Wall posed a question that momentarily silenced the room: What does Sweden actually want from its football?

SSE faculty is helping Ukrainian diplomats and civil servants prepare for EU accession talks through hands-on negotiation training in Kyiv. By drawing lessons from past EU enlargement processes, participants practice strategies and develop skills crucial for navigating the complexities of membership discussions.