On May 11, 2026, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) hosted its first Management and Control Research Day at the Stockholm School of Economics, bringing together faculty, affiliated researchers, and researchers and practitioners from partner organizations to present and discuss projects within CfSR’s research portfolio on management and control.

On May 5, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics hosted a breakfast seminar with Leandro S. Pongeluppe from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The seminar explored how terrorism reshapes the geography of multinational corporations and what this means for resilience, investment, and global business operations.

On May 20, 2026, Xiao Liu successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "From Information to Action: A Behavioral Perspective on Supply Chain Transparency for Sustainability." The defense took place in the Lecture Hall at the House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics.

The Stockholm School of Economics and Nynäshamn Municipality are exploring deeper collaboration to strengthen municipal total defense capabilities in Sweden. The initiative brings together academia and local government to support more resilient communities that can manage crises and wartime conditions.

Anna Essén, Associate Professor at the House of Innovation, has spent years studying how organizations overlook uncomfortable information. Her latest research examines the infamous Macchiarini case at Karolinska Institutet to explain a phenomenon she calls “sustained ignoring work.”

Cross-industry learning can drive innovation, but implementation is often difficult. At an event hosted by the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics on April 21, researchers and practitioners explored how organizations can adapt ideas from other sectors and make them stick.

After Sweden removed inheritance and gift taxes in 2005, private firms with potential family successors grew faster, invested more, and paid higher corporate taxes than firms without natural heirs, according to a new white paper from the Stockholm School of Economics. The study adds empirical evidence in a policy debate often dominated by ideology and comes as several European countries debate inheritance tax reforms.

Associate Professor Katja Einola and her colleague Violetta Khoreva were interviewed about how AI will affect professional life.

Would Swedish leadership teams be able to handle a crisis where decisions literally involve life and death? A new study of leadership teams in war-affected Ukraine and Israel suggests that the decisive factor is not the severity of the crisis, but how well organizations have prepared for it.

On March 17th, Ruilin Huang successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled "Autonomy and Control in Post-Pandemic Distributed Work".