Women make up only 20% of researchers working in finance departments at leading universities and their representation decreases with seniority, data from the Swedish House of Finance shows. Sweden has the second highest female representation after Australia, but on the professorial level, it ranks third.

Bachelor student Odessa Bäckfors (b. 2000) has been awarded the Anders Wall Scholarship of 200'000SEK. The scholarship is given in collaboration with SSE Business Lab and aims to highlight and encourage SSE students that have excelled in entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is excited to welcome GS1 Sweden to its Corporate Partnership Program. GS1 is recognized for its pioneering work in creating a global standard for retail checkout barcodes, which has been widely adopted globally.

”Sustainability is a focus area for research at both HEC and SSE, and in combination with our corporate networks participants in this program will get access to outstanding research and practice in an international context”, says Katarina Hägg, CEO at SSE Executive Education.

The Swedish Gender Equality Agency's thesis competition was organized for the first time in 2021. The content related criterion for participation in the competition is that the essay contributes to knowledge about gender equality policy or social development based on the ambitions of gender equality policy.

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.