Misum Forum 2020 – COVID Crisis: Increasing inequalities and decreasing investments?
On October 7, Misum hosted the 2020 edition of its annual forum, this year focused on the impact of COVID-19 on global inequalities in education and healthcare, and the state of strategic, long-term investments into sustainability. Researchers and guest speakers from academia and business presented new research findings and discuss sustainable business strategies in light of the pandemic.
About
The Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at the Stockholm School of Economics (Misum) was delighted to invite internal and external stakeholders to Misum Forum 2020, a half-day interdisciplinary virtual event on sectoral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The forum reflected on what the pandemic had, at that point, implied for industry, human capital, business entrepreneurship, and how to navigate emerging long-term sustainability challenges.
Speakers presented new research findings on how the pandemic had impacted human capital, including health and education in vulnerable regions, and explored firms’ ability to continue or initiate long-term projects aimed at supporting the transition to more sustainable business practices.
The event narrative centered on two mechanisms that risked undermining sustainability progress during a period of disruption: 1) increasing inequalities and 2) decreasing strategic investments by firms. Speakers investigated the extent to which evidence of these outcomes could be observed and discussed the responses needed to mitigate them.
Convenors
The event was organized by the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum) at the Stockholm School of Economics. Collaborators included Misum-affiliated researchers at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), the Department of Accounting at SSE, the House of Innovation at SSE, the Department of Finance at SSE, the Swedish House of Finance at SSE, the Department of Marketing and Strategy at SSE, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Speakers
- Dr. Rukmini Banerji
CEO, Pratham India - Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Executive Director, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, SSE - Hans Fahlin
Chief Investment Officer (CIO), AP2 Fund - Linda Ingolfsdottir
Global Strategy Lead, Fair Jobs, HM - Professor Sarah Jack
Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, SSE
Platform Director, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets - Dr Kautsar Ramli, Postdoctoral Researcher, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK
- Tony Sandberg, Director - Research and Innovation, Scania
- Abhijeet Singh
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, SSE
Affiliated Researcher, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets - Emma Sjöström
Research Fellow, Department of Marketing and Strategy, SSE
Initiative Director, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets - Torkel Strömsten
Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, SSE
Platform Director, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets - Lars Strannegård
President, Stockholm School of Economics
Professor Mattias Nordqvist
Professor, House of Innovation, SSE - Anders Olofsgård
Associate Professor, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, SSE
Affiliated Researcher, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets