The Graduation Ceremony for BSc students 2015 took place in the City Hall of Stockholm on November 7. An occasion for our students to receive and celebrate well-deserved diplomas, and an opportunity to reward outstanding achievements.

The new artwork, "Pirate Lane" from 2007 by Clay Ketter, is part of his series Gulf Coast Slabs. This series of photographs registers the foundations of homes which were destroyed by a natural disaster of enormous scale, the hurricane Katrina.

The Stockholm School of Economics conducts internationally recognized research in economics, finance, business administration and related disciplines. Many of our researchers are among the leading figures in their respective fields. 

We are happy to announce that this month we have two new Partners.

Marie Söderberg, Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics, received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation at the Japanese Embassy on October 5.

“Marknadsföring och påverkan på konsumenten” edited by Professor Magnus Söderlund, received the Marketing Book of the Year Award by the Swedish Marketing Federation on October 15. The anthology has contributions from twelve marketing researchers at SSE.  

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare". Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, is very happy about the choice of this year’s winner, who is a leading researcher in her field of research - Development Economics.

More than 150 students, alumni and representatives of Corporate Partners participated at the kickoff for the MSc Mentor program 2015/2016 on October 6.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton, Princeton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”

Entrepreneurship promotes well-being by satisfying an individual’s basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This is one of several conclusions drawn in Nadav Shir’s research at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), where he studied the relationship between entrepreneurship and mental health.