The school aims to develop the learning process in such a way that creative thinking and critical reasoning are the guiding principles for the entire study programme. Our courses are based on the latest research. Close contacts with the worlds of business and research, both at a national and international level, allow us to offer a transnational education.

Vision

Stockholm Business School's vision is to be a driving force and a respected source of knowledge and inspiration in addressing current societal challenges in a changing world.

Mission

Stockholm Business School's mission is to conduct outstanding research and provide engaging, research-driven teaching that develops students' ability to create responsible and sustainable solutions, and to collaborate with various societal actors to address current societal challenges together.

Our mission is outcome-based and focuses on the impact that Stockholm Business School seeks to have on graduating students. It is intrinsically related to the vision articulated above.

This strategy sets out the overall operational goals and development areas for Stockholm Business School (SBS). It should be viewed as a guiding direction for the next three years and is intended to serve as a starting point for recurring dialogues within the department board, the management group, with students, and within the sections. The strategy aligns with the overarching strategies of the university, the area, and the faculty.

SBS Strategic Plan 2024-2026 (102 Kb)

An accreditation process is built on self-evaluation and peer-review. Gaining accreditation is a quality mark testifying that a university, a department/school or educational programme(s) have achieved the level of quality that is defined and sought after by a specific accrediting body.

Business Graduates Association, BGA

Stockholm Business School is an esteemed accredited member institution of the Business Graduates Association (BGA), an international membership and quality assurance body of world-leading and high-potential business schools who share a commitment for responsible management practices and lifelong learning, and are looking to provide positive impact on their students, communities, and the economy as a whole.

BGA is part of the same organisation as the Association of MBAs (AMBA), the world’s impartial authority on postgraduate management education.

As a BGA accredited member institution, students and graduates of Stockholm Business School are able to access BGA’s individual membership, which offers a range of tools and resources designed to support the professional and personal development of business students and graduates, free of charge. Tools available within the BGA member platform include CV building services, a job search function, skill assessments, thought-leadership, partner discounts and much more.

The Associations of MBAs, AMBA

Stockholm Business School Executive MBA is accredited by AMBA (The Associations of MBAs; London, UK).

AMBA

Scope: Accredits specific programmes such as Executive MBAs.
Timespan: 9-18 months.
Possibility for renewed status: Every 3-5 years.
Status for SBS: Accredited in June 2024.

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Stockholm Business School was founded at the end of the 1950s and initially operated on a small scale as part of the Stockholm School of Economics. It became an independent department of Stockholm University in July 1962. By the end of the 1960s, the School had grown significantly in size and is now one of the largest departments at the University with around 3,500 students and some seventy lecturers/research staff, thirty doctoral students and about thirty administrative staff. Stockholm Business School is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University.

Business Administration in Sweden

The academic subject of Business Administration was first introduced in Sweden when Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909. Marcus Wallenberg played an important role in the early days of the School of Economics. At that time the subject was known as Commercial Studies and it focused mainly on accounting. The School of Economics in Gothenburg was founded in 1923, and by the end of the 1950s there were also Business Administration departments at Uppsala and Lund Universities.

A modest start in the 50s

SBS had a modest start in the end of the 1950s at the University College of Stockholm (upgraded to Stockholm University in 1960). Teaching was offered through an arrangement with the Stockholm School of Economics. It consisted of a half term course that combined Accounting and Statistics with a basic course in Business Administration.  This was followed by studies in Accounting and Finance, Management Accounting, Administration, and Marketing. Studies for higher levels than two semesters were not possible until 1966 after the appointment of the first professor, Bertil Näslund.

Towards independence as a separate department

In 1960 Stockholm University College recieved university status and became Stockholm University. Two years later SBS became an independent department at the university. Two people in particular were of great significance during the establishment of Stockholm Business School as a department of Stockholm University; Professor Gerhard Törnquist and Professor T. Paulsson Frenckner. The latter became responsible for both the organisation and the administration of the School’s activities during the first few years. In a University memorial publication from 1967 this is confirmed:

”During the eight years that followed the introduction of Business Administration at the Stockholm University College/University the organisation and the full responsibility for teaching and examination fell on the School of Economics professor Paulsson Frenckner, who took on this burden due to his own personal interest. The University is very grateful for all of his efforts in this regard”.

Facilities through the years

In 1962 SBS moved into its first premises at Fredsgatan 10. The building, which had only one lecture hall and around a dozen rooms, was destined for demolition and the School left the 850 square meter venue in June 1964 and instead moved into an apartment with seven rooms on Upplandsgatan 32.  In January the following year the department moved again, this time to facilities on Hagagatan 23 where it remained until the summer of 1970 when space became available in the South buildings of Frescati. Finally, in the year 2000, SBS could move into the Veterinary College’s old but restored buildings in Kräftriket, beautifully located in Brunnsviken.  The department has remained in this location and has developed into one of Northern Europe’s largest teaching departments.

Here is a summary of how many students, educations and employees there are at the department.

Students and education

3 500 students
10 programs at basic and advanced level
about 120 courses

Employees

Approximately 150 employees (in various forms of employment) of which
about 93 in teaching and research (professors, assistant professors and lecturers)
about 22 PhD students
35 administrative staff

 

2024

Dissertations

Anna Felicia Enhage, "Paradoxical consumer enjoyment: A cultural perspective on cigarette consumption"
Desirée Ödén, Time to Work - Responsibilization and Reification in the Swedish Welfare State
Chengcheng Qu, Competition, Division and Unity - The Impact of Market Structures on Trading Quality
Reema Akhtar, "What if your world is outside the oyster? How highly educated and skilled first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs develop opportunities in knowledge-intensive sectors"

Ballerina Award

Bino Catasus

2023

Dissertations

Christoph Baldauf, Empirical Essays on Retail Logistics and Customer Behavior
Amelia Olsson, Political Dimensions of Entrepreneurship - Exploring Competing Discourses in a Marginalized Urban Community Aspiring for Social Change
Neslihan Özlü, The Heterogeneity of Behaviour in Operations Processes
Markus Oljemark, Lonely in Company: A qualitative study of loneliness, belonging, and the passion for recognition at work
Oscar Wandery, The Ecstasy of Tragedy – An Ethnography of Hospice
Gulnar Nussipova, "Unpacking the Value of Emerging Technologies: Experimentation, Communication and Knowledge Brokering
Yu Xiang, Intricate Involuted Intertwinings: On Accounting, Technology, and Materiality

Ballerina Award

Bino Catasus

2022

Dissertations

Jonatan Södergren, "Woke" Authenticity in Brand Culture: A Patchwork Ethnography
Fatemeh Aramian, Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets: A Market Microstructure Perspective on Systematic Internalizers
Matilda Eriksson, Entreprenörskapets tysta(de) röster: En narrativ studie om kvinnor som delar sitt liv med en man som är entreprenör
Mohamed Mahieddine, Before Audit. Essays on the necessity of imagination

Ballerina Award

Nick Butler and Anselm Schneider

2021

Dissertations

Anton Borell, In Between Competing Ideals: On the Relationships among Accounting, NPM and Welfare
Aylin Cakanlar, Essays on consumers’ socially responsible decision making
Kim Eriksson, Att anordna styrning - tillblivelse av mångfald av styrteknologier
Elina Malmström, An audit is an audit

Ballerina Award

Bino Catasus

2021 Best Critical Dissertation Award

Yashar Mahmud, Organizing Refugees

2020

Dissertations

Amir Kheirollah, The Art of Discretion
Emelie Adamsson, The Construction of Corporate Irresponsibility
Yashar Mahmud, Organizing Refugees
Ian Khrashchevskyi, Essays on Risks in Investment Strategies
Wenderson Raimundo De Lima, Modern Missionaries

2019

The University Association's award for the best dissertation within the Faculty of Social Sciences

Maíra Magalhães Lopes for dissertation The Making of Us: How Affects Shape Collective Bodies Resisting Gentrification.

Dissertations

Petter Dahlström, New Insights on Computerized Trading
Anton Hasselgren, Essays on Investor Behavior and Trading Strategies in International Financial Markets
Ester Félez Viñas, Changing the Rules of the Game: A market microstructure perspective on the effects of regulating financial markets

2018

Teacher of the year

Iñaki Rodriguez Longarela, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Finance Section.
Read more about Iñaki Rodriguez Longarela

Dissertations

Christopher Lokatt, Auditors’ Constitution of Performance – A Study on the Duality of Performance in Auditing Profession
Sara Öhlin, An improvisational, practice-oriented approach to innovation: examples from the fashion industry
Luigi Servadio, Customer Rituals: Ethnographic explorations of wine rituals with families and friends
Peter Markowski, Collaboration Routines – A Study of Interdisciplinary Healthcare
Emma Stendahl, Headquarters’ Involvement in Managing Subsidiaries
Liesel Klemcke, The Quirky Character Camouflaged in the Conceptual Framework – A study of the financial statement user
Abu Chowdhury, Essays on Insider Trading and Initial Public Offerings
Maíra Magalhães Lopes, The Making of Us. How affects shape collective bodies resisting gentrification