Press releases

For the 19th consecutive year, the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education has been ranked highest in the Nordic and Baltic regions in management and leadership development. Globally, the program has climbed to 16th place from 21st place in last year’s ranking.

Stockholm School of Economics, Chalmers and KTH top the list of Sweden’s most international universities in the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education’s (STINT) annual Internationalization Index.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development constitutes a roadmap for where we, as a society that includes the private sector, need to go in just over ten years until 2030. A study from Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC) and Swesif shows that half of buy-side analysts as well as corporate investor relations officers think that sell-side financial research has a detrimental short-term focus. More than a third of sell-side financial analysts agree with this.

On May 24, 2019 – 100 years to the day after women in Sweden received the right to vote – the first-ever thesis defense in Economics, with only women on stage, is being held at SSE. Emma Heikensten, researcher in Economics, defends her thesis “Motivation and Gender: Experimental studies on Goals, Awards, Advice and Retaliation”.

Bachelor student Cecilia Nyquist is active in SSE Students for Climate Action. Appearing on SVT News she talks about a specific incident that was the starting point for her climate activism.

At today's Global Swede Award Ceremony SSE master student Sejal Gandhi was one of Sweden's top international students to receive a diploma. She is a very ambitious and enterprising student, who, besides attending the program, is engaged in international tax matters and transfer pricing at PwC Sweden. Sejal Gandhi is scheduled to graduate in June 2019.