On Wednesday January 25th, the Center for Sports & Business at SSE held its 2nd joint alumni event together with the ESSEC Business School and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management. The theme of this digital event was 21st Century Sports: How Technologies will Impact Sports in the Digital Age and the keynote speech was given by Professor Sascha Schmidt from WHU.

Johan Öhlin, Marketing Manager at Coop, delivered a theme lecture to the students across all three years of the Retail Management program.

Students Katarina Li Qiu and Buene Gjana have been awarded the Gun and Einar Larsson Scholarship 2023 (GELS) for their project “The Making of Rwanda’s Physical Education Curriculum”.

The SSE Library, with their project “The diversity & equality book collection”, and the External Relations department, with their project “Female student recruitment”, were the first projects to be awarded funds from the newly established SSE Gender Equality Fund.

CEMS, the unique global alliance of 34 of the world’s leading business schools and more than 70 corporate and social partners which together deliver the CEMS Master in International Management (MIM), has elected Professor Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics as its new Chair and Professor Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American University in Cairo Business School as Deputy-Chair.  Professor Strannegard takes up his new role having already served for two years as the Alliance’s Deputy Chair.

Torsdag 9 februari kl. 15.00 presenterar Mikaela Sundberg, professor i sociologi, boken Fraternal relations in monasteries: The laboratory of love. Maria Törnqvist, Sociologiska institutionen vid Uppsala universitet och Nils Brunsson, Score, är kommentatorer. Efter seminariet, som slutar runt 16.30, bjuder Score på förfriskningar och musik!

Did you miss the chance to attend the book launch event "Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies" presented by Torbjörn Becker, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Veronika Movchan on 11 January? Watch the recordings to learn more about their framework for Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction co-written together with leading scholars and experts.

House of Innovation is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Emma Rui Lu. She has successfully defended her thesis today, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement. Congratulations, Emma!

Did you miss the chance to attend the annual SITE 2022 Development Day conference? This policy brief shortly summarizes the presentations and discussions at the SITE Development Day Conference, held on December 6, 2022. The main focus of the conference was how to maintain and organize support for Ukraine in the short and long run, with the current situation in Belarus and the region and the ongoing energy crisis in Europe, also being addressed.

Sven-Anders Stegare had a successful business career for almost three decades, among other roles as purchasing manager at the SEB. Despite the fact that things were going smoothly at work, the feeling of wanting to do something else has been growing stronger over the past few years. The idea of doing research had crossed his mind several times and he has now made a move on the matter. Meet our PhD-student Sven-Anders!