Corporate boards play a crucial role in setting company policies, long-term goals, and overseeing corporate officers and executives. In this new case study, Misum affiliated researcher Emma Sjöström highlights and compares two cases where shareholders have sought to nominate particular candidates for board membership in the name of climate change.

The Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) is now recruiting for the position of Misum Stakeholder Engagement Manager. For someone passionate in sustainability and research, this position offers many opportunities to learn, build networks, make an impact, and spread knowledge.

While in Stockholm as the Misum Forum 2023 keynote speaker, Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson sat down with Dagens Nyheter to discuss her two decades of work on purpose-driven capitalism and what that means for business.

The academic insight delves into the process by which shareholders and their intermediaries establish authority and influence companies to improve their climate-related work.

This new Academic Insight takes an in-depth look at public perception on in-kind settlements, guiding future use of them in addressing environmental justice issues.

Earlier this summer, Misum research affiliate Abhijeet Singh was featured in The Economist for his study on international school-year productivity and learning outcomes

Misum is thrilled to welcome two new platform directors; Prof. Mattia Bianchi to the Sustainable Business Development through Entrepreneurship and Innovation platform and Marieke Bos to the Sustainable Finance Initiative.

Misum Executive Director, Prof. Martina Björkman Nyqvist, was recently interviewed by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research.

Policies that support cleaner production technologies can lower climate change risks and environmental problems without hurting the economy in the long run. However, there is limited evidence on how these policies motivate companies to invest in these technologies. This Misum Academic Insight examines how taxes on emissions affect technology spending in highly polluting companies.

Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and Tore Browaldh Foundation recognize the research in unraveling the impact of labor-market, media narratives, and personal traits on climate change perspectives.