On April 9, Tomas Hjelström at the Department of Accounting was awarded the title "Teacher of the Year" by the Executive MBA class of 2014 which graduated this year. It is the sixth time that Tomas receives this distinction. Congratulations Tomas!

Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (Misum) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), is delighted to announce the four new highly competent members of the board of Misum: Robert Eccles, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Ingalill Holmberg, Professor and Director for the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at SSE, Johanna Mair, Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance and Peter Norman, Swedish economist, former Minister for Financial Markets.

Misums communication manager Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe together with 12 science communicators writes about the necessity of creating a network for Swedish science communicators.

We interviewed the winners of the Handels24 Contest, Fanny Söderlund and Nicole Nguyen. Fanny will spend her three weeks of internship this summer at The Boston Consulting Group and Nicole at Diplomat Communications.

New policy brief by Erik Meyersson, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), examines the timing of Turkey’s authoritarian turn using raw data measuring freedoms from the Freedom House (FH).

Lin Lerpold, Executive Director at Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at SSE (Misum),  has been ranked as one of the most influential opinion-formers in Sweden for sustainable development by the leading sustainability magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet.

by Erik Meyersson, Working paper

Sara Rosengren’s and Micael Dahlén’s article "Exploring Advertising Equity: How a Brand's Past Advertising May Affect Consumer Willingness to Approach Its Future Ads” has been awarded as one of the top three articles in 2015 by world-leading academic journal Journal of Advertising 

Research paper "Leniency, Asymmetric Punishment and Corruption: Evidence from China" has been listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for topics “Institutions & Corruption”, “Punishment, Corrective Justice Generally”, “Corruption” and “Institutions & Transition Economics: Political Economy”.