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Stockholm School of Economics selects Ex Libris Esploro
30 November 2021
The Esploro solution will help the school showcase the complete breadth of its scholars’ research; facilitate the discovery of publications on SwePub, Sweden’s scientific publishing network and provide the library and research office with in-depth analytics and reports.
SSE student representing CIVICA on prestigious event in Rome
17 November 2021
Linnea Svanberg is a first-year master student of Finance at SSE and one of the school’s CIVICA ambassadors. She just came back from a prestigious event in Rome, where she has presented a report that she has been co-writing together with other students from the CIVICA-network. It all started with a student initiative at Bocconi University in Milan.
SSE Business Lab’s star jury backs 11 new companies
08 November 2021
Today, eleven new companies today start their journeys in the Stockholm School of Economics’ prestigious venture incubator SSE Business Lab. Among tough competition these companies managed to impress the star-studded Board of Admissions, with profiles like Lisa Lindström, Sven Hagströmer and Anna Stenberg, with their pitches.
SSE alum and Minister for Finance Magdalena Andersson visited SSE
21 October 2021
The Swedish Economics Association's annual meeting was held Wednesday afternoon, where Sweden’s Minister for Finance, Magdalena Andersson, presented the government’s budget proposal.
Cooperation and communication key elements for two great teachers
18 October 2021
Fairouz Hussien, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Marketing and Strategy, and Jan Starmans, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance, receive the award for Outstanding Pedagogical Achievements Spring 2021. With this award SSE wants to highlight and inspire great teachers and contribute to developing pedagogical tools and techniques.
Swedish Minister for Culture visited SSE
15 October 2021
Amanda Lind, Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, visited SSE to learn more about our strategy to embed art in the academic environment of SSE.
Does your organizational culture enable the sharing and learning from failures?
13 October 2021
Today is the ”International day of failure” – although nobody likes to admit when they’re wrong. Reluctance to own up to mistakes can be even more intense at consulting firms, where being right about things is exactly what they’re selling. Researchers Jonas Dahl and Andreas Werr at SSE decided to analyze organizational cultures of perfectionism, which the researchers termed as “positivity”, and found out that there were big differences between a leadership consulting firm and a communications consulting firm.
Nobel Prize in Economics 2021
11 October 2021
The Stockholm School of Economics would like to congratulate the winners of the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021. The price goes to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens.
Sweden launches testbed for clinical trials in cancer care
10 October 2021
Vision Zero Cancer and Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS) join forces with SciLifeLab, public sector authorities, regions, healthcare, academia, industry and patient associations to create an innovation milieu that facilitates the introduction of more precise prevention and treatment in cancer care. The research institute SIR at the SSE is the coordinator Vision Zero Cancer.
SSE announces the recipients of the Alumni and Young Alumni of the Year Awards 2021
07 October 2021
For the fourth year in a row, Stockholm School of Economics has given out the Alumni of the Year Award and, for the first time ever, the Young Alumni of the Year Award. In 2021, the Alumni of the Year Award is presented to Åsa Riisberg, Investor and Board Member, and the Young Alumni of the Year Award is presented to Marina Dirks, Director - Global Sustainability at Tiffany & Co.