The prize was established in 1983 as a tribute to Professor Gunnar Myrdal on his 85th birthday. The Myrdal Prize is awarded each year by Swedbank for the best article of the year in the Swedish Economic Association's journal Ekonomisk Debatt.

Assistant professor Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, received the corporate partner award late 2022 for her research. Kaisa joined the Department of Marketing and Strategy in April 2021. Her research interests lie at the intersection of service-dominant logic, institutional theory, and systems thinking.

Students Katarina Li Qiu and Buene Gjana have been awarded the Gun and Einar Larsson Scholarship 2023 (GELS) for their project “The Making of Rwanda’s Physical Education Curriculum”.

The SSE Library, with their project “The diversity & equality book collection”, and the External Relations department, with their project “Female student recruitment”, were the first projects to be awarded funds from the newly established SSE Gender Equality Fund.

CEMS, the unique global alliance of 34 of the world’s leading business schools and more than 70 corporate and social partners which together deliver the CEMS Master in International Management (MIM), has elected Professor Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics as its new Chair and Professor Sherif Kamel, Dean of the American University in Cairo Business School as Deputy-Chair.  Professor Strannegard takes up his new role having already served for two years as the Alliance’s Deputy Chair.

A new research project on changing attitudes about migrants is bringing together ten CIVICA universities across Europe. “The idea of migrants’ integration in Europe may be shifting from something seen as a right, to something you need to prove you are worthy of,” says Professor Laurence Romani.

Niclas is a passionate and innovative teacher who has made outstanding pedagogical achievements in SSE programs. Over a period of thirty years, he has been part of educating more than 8,000 SSE students.

This year’s laureates in the Economic Sciences have significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy. On Monday 12, 11.30, Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig will be visiting us at SSE for a live broadcast Nobel discussion.

SSE climbs in the FT European business school rankings. Moving from 22 to 20 SSE remains the leading Nordic school on this list.

As CIVICA ambassadors, Emma and Gustav hope to shed new light on European civic issues through cultural exchange: “It’s great to be a link between universities across Europe and to promote cooperation.”