News
His interest in music made him start lunch concerts at SSE
										01 July 2015
									
									
										Victor Bao is a second year Bachelor student with a great interest in music which is why he initiated the lunch concerts in the schools Atrium this spring. 
									
								Stockholm is the second most successful tech hub in the world
										30 June 2015
									
									
										Sweden is a world leader in technology, only beaten by Silicon Valley according to an article in The Telegraph.
									
								Distinguished scholars and practitioners discuss finance for sustainable development
										30 June 2015
									
									
										SITE has published a policy brief that covers a discussion on how to reduce extreme poverty by incentivizing private aid and private investment in developing countries and secure development finance to fragile states.
									
								'Drowning Sailors' - new art installation at SSE
										29 June 2015
									
									Dissertation defense by Henning Christner
										26 June 2015
									
									
										On June 12, Henning Christner from the Department of Accounting successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation entitled “The Valuable Organisation: A Study of How Activities are Calculated, Controlled and Made Valuable” . The discussant was Professor Kari Lukka, University of Turku.
									
								Professor Emeritus Sven-Erik Johansson has passed away
										24 June 2015
									
									
										Sven-Erik Johansson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Accounting, passed away in June 2015 at the age of 91. Sven-Erik will be greatly missed by his colleagues at the department. 
									
								Microloans become increasingly commercial
										24 June 2015
									
									
										The rationale for rating microfinance organizations has changed considerably since microloans were introduced as a way of combating poverty at the end of the 1990s. Today it increasingly embraces models common in the corporate world, Sofia Nilsson Altafi claims in her new thesis from the Stockholm School of Economics.
									
								SSE’s Master in Finance ranked 12th best in the world
										23 June 2015
									
									
										The Financial Times (FT) are ranking the best Finance Masters program from around the world. The SSE’s Master in Finance was ranked as 12th best in the world, moving up one place from 2014.
									
								New report: Stockholm FinTech
										23 June 2015
									
									
										The new report by SSE researchers shows that investments in Swedish Fintech companies increased sharply last year.
									
								The Sharing Economy is focus in new report by SSE researchers
										17 June 2015
									
									
										The underlying motives for the sharing economy is to reduce untapped overcapacity in both goods and services in order to match supply and demand at low transaction costs. As new digital platforms are replacing traditional intermediaries, new structures are created for both society and business.