For the third year in a row, the Stockholm School of Economics has named an Alumni of the Year. In 2020, the award was presented to Sebastian Knutsson, who started at the School in 1990 and is the...

An increasing number of family firms choose to select a non-family CEO for the highest executive office when there is no suitable family member available. A recent example of this is the Swedish...

This breakfast seminar examines the drivers and consequences of direct entrepreneurial investments by family offices, and what these investment practices imply for founders, co-investors, and the...

Magali Bancel, Marie Wik, and Xin Li have been awarded the SSE MBA Carl Silfvén Scholarship 2024. The scholarship is presented to the next generation leaders to promote the competitiveness of...

Welcome to Department of Economics Seminars - Spring 2026. The Department of Economics regularly arranges two types of academic seminars, Brown Bags seminars and Higher Seminars. Our academic seminars...

How might we improve the visitor’s experience of Stockholm, especially for those who face challenges from a disability? That was the overarching assignment for 11 mixed teams of students from Babson...

More than 150 students, alumni and representatives of Corporate Partners participated at the kickoff for the MSc Mentor program 2015/2016 on October 6.

We hosted a lunch session in collaboration with Kvinnovation, featuring speakers from tech, academia, and the business community. During this event, we discussed what drives success in female...

Folke Ölander, Honorary Doctor at the Stockholm School of Economics (1999), passed away on December 28, 2013, after a short period of severe illness.

Folke Ölander, a researcher and teacher at the research center for Economic Psychology in the 1960’ and early 1970’s and Honorary Doctor at the Stockholm School of Economics (1999), passed away on...