We are proud to announce that four of our students at Stockholm School of Economics are the winners of the 2015 Nespresso Sustainability MBA Challenge. This third edition attracted more students than ever before and in total 86 student teams from different business schools and universities participated, from all over the world.

The Female Economist of the Year 2015 is Anna Lundin. For fifteen years this scholarship has been awarded to a talented female student at the Stockholm School of Economics to inspire young women to become business leaders. 

Erik Wetter, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), is currently developing national mobility estimates for Nepal through a non-profit organization in an effort to assist government and UN agencies in the earthquake relieve effort. 

In a guest column in Veckans Affärer, one of our students describes his experience of a lecture at SSE. He is very critical and describes a type of teaching without wider perspectives on the surrounding world. He argues that economics study programs look upon an economic system detached from the planet we live on. We are well aware that a development of our educational programs is needed and therefore we are engaged in a process of change at a rather fast pace with the help of, among others, Misum (Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets) and Global Challenges.

The prize-winning entries for 2015 were written by SSE students from the Bachelor Program in Retail Management in competition with nearly 50 nominees.

During her visit at CASL, Lotte Holck will present her thesis on Organizing Diversity: an ethnographic study of the structural tensions of organizing diversity. Jun 9th at the Leadership and Organizing seminar series.

Clas Bergström, Professor in Finance and Law at the Department of Finance at SSE has been elected member of SNS (The Centre for Business and Policy Studies) Board of Trustees.  

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE) has the pleasure to invite you the SITE Academic conference "Fighting Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries".

Acting Professor Niclas Hellman at the Department of Accounting was recently appointed new Chairman of the Financial Reporting Standards Committee (FRSC) of European Accounting Association (EAA). The FRSC is responsible for liaising with the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) and European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) on behalf of the EAA to facilitate the use of academic research in the standard-setting process and to ensure that the voice of the European academic community is heard. More information about the FRSC can be found at: http://www.eaa-online.org/r/default.asp?iId=FDGEGD

Lennart Samuelson, affiliated researcher of SITE and associate professor of economic history at the Stockholm School of Economics, is one of the few historians in the world that have used materials from formerly secret archives of Soviet Union to find out the reality of how Soviet authorities actually formed their long-term industrialization plans in the late 1920s and 1930s, in order to cope with the probable conditions in case of a total war.