In connection with SSE Executive Education moving into the school’s premises at Sveavägen 65, Anders Richtnér has been appointed as the new CEO of SSE Executive Education. On February 1, 2017, he will take over from Ingrid Engström, who has thus completed the crucial assignment of integrating executive education at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Walter Schuster (PricewaterhouseCoopers professor of Accounting and Auditing) has released a new book entitled "Finansiell Redovisning" in which he analyses the development of the International Financial Reporting Standards. The book is published by SSE Institute for Research (SIR).

- I Sverige har man ofta likställt hållbarhet med miljöfrågor, men på sista tiden har fokus ökat på sociala frågor och det har kommit en förståelse för att de ofta hänger ihop med miljömässig hållbarhet, säger Lin Lerpold i en intervju i Dagens Industri den 18 december 2016.  

The social and physical contexts are crucial to how we perceive advertising and are affected by it. This is shown in a recently published dissertation from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

Sara comments on Swedish e-commerce.

Interview with Cecilia Repinski, former director for the research platform Sustainable Finance at Misum, from the Mistra Financial System seminar "Green Finance: What Role can Sweden Play", December 14, 2016, in Stockholm.

On December 14, Henning Christner at the Department of Accounting was awarded the 2016 Oscar Sillén Dissertation Prize by Företagsekonomiska Institutet (FEI). Congratulations Henning!

This year’s Nobel Laureates in Economics Sciences, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström visited SSE on Monday, December 12.

Launching as of today: a new report from the Mistra Financial System program by researchers Hans Lööf, Gustav Martinsson and Ali Mohammadi.

The winners of the Hult Prize in Sweden were announced at HHS aula last Friday. Twelve teams competed which is double the number from last year. This year's challenge, which is set every year by former President Bill Clinton, was to "turn the refugee crisis into a refugee opportunity by building sustainable and scalable social enterprises that restore the rights and dignity of 10 million refugees by 2022."