Why do some people choose to start their own business when their job situation feels uncertain? How do our cultural roots influence our willingness to take risks?
In Stayin’ Alive: Debt Complexity as a Bankruptcy-Delaying Mechanism, recently accepted for publication in Journal of Corporate Finance, Håkan Jankensgård of Stockholm Business School, with co-authors Jens Forssbaeck and Reda Moursli, investigate how financially distressed companies use complex debt structures to prolong their survival.
The fashion industry thrives on constant reinvention. Fast fashion companies pump out millions of garments daily, often at low prices, but at a high cost to both the environment and workers' rights. Yet fashion is deeply personal. It’s a powerful form of self-expression and identity. So, is it possible to stay stylish without compromising our planet? According to Malin Wennberg, a researcher on sustainable fashion, the answer is yes - but with nuance.
With support from a capacity building program organised by Stockholm University and Ro3kvit Urban Coalition, and through a feasibility study funded by Swedfund, the Swedish development finance institution (DFI), Lozova is now underway to develop a roadmap for sustainable and energy-efficient infrastructure improvements.
After the pandemic, SBS has continued to offer online distance learning. Now, a completely new group of students - women in Afghanistan - can benefit from this initiative.
The course "Research Frontiers in Financial Economics" explores various domains within finance, including Sustainable Finance and Sustainability aspects of Real Estate Valuation.
In the article Bright Light, Dark Room: Where do Corporate Insiders Trade? Alexander Hübbert and Lars Nordén investigate the trading venue choices of corporate insiders.
The UN's annual climate conference COP (this year number 29 in the series) is gathered 11–22 November in Baku, Azerbaijan. We have asked some researchers at Stockholm University what they will do at the conference and what they expect from COP29.
David Fridner’s new dissertation, Customer Attractiveness in the Public Sector, explores how public organizations can become more attractive as customers, thereby fostering long-term, value-creating relationships with their suppliers.
Stockholms universitet arrangerar aktiviteter med koppling till Nobelpriset i samarbete med Nobelprismuseet. Årets Nobel Calling infaller 4-14 oktober. Då kan du bland annat besöka två labb på universitet samt lyssna på forskare som talar om att knäcka koder samt om kopplingen mellan AI och klimat.
Online and omnichannel retail led to changes in customer behavior that speak to the relevance of logistics. Therefore, logistics has moved from being a back-office operation to sitting at the forefront of retailers´ service offerings.
During the summer, the SACCess group had two articles published in well-renowned journals. SACCess is an acronym where S stands for speed and acc for acceleration.
The autumn semester has now begun, and Stockholm Business School welcomed over 1,000 newly admitted students with an Orientation Session in Aula Magna on September 2nd.
Paul Milgrom, professor at Stanford, gave a keynote speech at the Summer School in Market Microstructure that was hosted by Stockholm Business School in July 2024.
Stockholm Business School has officially received joint accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the Business Graduates Association (BGA), two of the world’s leading authorities on business education.
The conference "Rethinking Cities in Ukraine" was organized for three days from April 29th to May 1st. Representatives from various municipalities in Ukraine, participants from Sweden, and other European countries attended the conference.
Solving complex questions about interactions between the sea and climate change, and how they relate to society, requires a broad set of skills. In a new research school, PhD students from diverse scientific disciplines at Stockholm University get a unique opportunity to learn how transdisciplinary approaches and research communication can lead to sustainable management of coastal environments.
In a new dissertation, Reema Akhtar examines how highly educated first-generation immigrants choose entrepreneurship to establish themselves in the labor market in their new country.
Chengcheng Qu has completed his doctoral studies in financial economics with the thesis Competition, Division, and Unity - The Impact of Market Structures on Trading Quality.
Anna Felicia Enhage defended her doctoral thesis "Paradoxical consumer enjoyment: A cultural perspective on cigarette consumption" on February 9th at the Marketing section, Stockholm Business School.
Three of the master's programmes at Stockholm Business School are included in the list of the ten most popular master's programs at Stockholm University.
Yu Xiang defended his thesis "Intricate Involuted Intertwinings - On Accounting, Technology, and Materiality" on December 15th at the Accounting Section.
Michał Dzieliński and Lu Liu, both at the Finance section, recently got their article “Green links: corporate networks and environmental performance” accepted for publication in the Review of Finance, one of the top journals in finance.
Julia Grimm, Assistant Professor in the Management section has published the article "Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment Across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships" in the Academy of Management Journal.
Nick Butler has received research funding for the project "Leading by Algorithm: Reconfiguring the Nature of Leadership in Digitalized Work Environments".
Martin Johanson, researcher and associate professor at the Marketing Section, Stockholm Business School, has been awarded SEK 450,000 by the Knut & Ragnvi Jacobsson Foundation for his research project "Entrepreneurship and War - How do businesses and people survive in Ukraine?"
The thesis titled "Flight to Climate: Liquidity Commonality in Brown Equities," is recognized as one of the two best master theses in financial economics by Thule Foundation at Skandia.
As of 1 January 2024, you must temporarily log in to Ladok in a different way than you normally do. Instead of using your regular university account, you must use eduID or your account on antagning.se.
On October 16, Atlas Copco's IR manager Daniel Althoff and Linnea Grönwall from the IR department visited the students on the Corporate Finance course.
Gulnar Nussipova defended her thesis "Unpacking the Value of Emerging Technologies: Experimentation, Communication, and Knowledge Brokering" at the Marketing Section, Stockholm Business School on October 12th.
In the thesis "The Ecstasy of Tragedy - An Ethnography of Hospice," Oscar Wandery explores the organizational culture within palliative care at a hospice.
Within a new graduate school in ocean, climate and environmental issues, 12 doctoral students will be admitted at several of Stockholm University's departments.
The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, along with the Tore Browaldh Foundation, have decided to award the following research grants to Stockholm Business School.
- Problematizing research in a less effective reality
May 25-26, 2023
Conference Chair Tony Fang
Conference hosts
Jeremy Clegg, University of Leeds, UK
Tony Fang, Stockholm University, Sweden
Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University, Sweden
Neslihan Özlü aspires to create knowledge about the drivers of this “behavioral heterogeneity” with the four studies in her dissertation The Heterogeneity of Behavior in Operations Processes.
A new thesis shows the political context in social entrepreneurship. The study explores the political dimension of entrepreneurship emerging within the context of a subaltern counterpublic (a form of community cultivating contestation of current social structures) primarily consisting of second-generation Swedes with connections to marginalized suburbs in Stockholm.
Ran Xing, assistant professor at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School, has been awarded with the Hans Dalborg Award for his research about explicit and implicit value of high-turnover investment strategies.
On March 7th, Peter Nyquist, Head of Investor Relations at Ericsson, met and interacted with the students of the Corporate Finance course at Stockholm Business School.
The international programmes at Stockholm Business School are popular. Several of SBS's international programmes are at the top of Stockholm University's most sought-after international programmes for the autumn semester 2023.
Stockholm Business School is pleased to announce that it has, once again, been internationally accredited by AMBA for its Executive MBA programme. Only 2% of MBA programmes globally are recognised by AMBA.
There is a need to rethink and re-enact Entrepreneurship Education (EE). This is the firm conviction of a group of European scholars who together have received an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership grant. The main aim of the Transforming Entrepreneurship Education project is to change EE’s direction and practice in Europe.
We had the great pleasure to welcome Lena Österberg, Head of sustainability research and strategy at Carnegie as a guest lecturer in the REFI course on Monday November 21st.
Education and research are closely linked at Stockholm University. As a student, you will have direct contact with leading researchers in your field and access to the most recent scientific findings.
Ran Xing at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School, and his coauthors recently got an article accepted for publication in the top journal for research in finance, The Journal of Finance.
Stockholm Business School welcomed about 800 newly admitted students at bachelor's and master's level with a welcome information in Aula Magna on the first day of the autumn semester on August 29th.
Stockholm University is ranked 90 in the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, placing the university third in Sweden.
During the summer Stockholm Busienss School will have new Heads of department. The department has also got a new professor, new Heads of section and a new Professor representative.
Mohamed Mahieddine defended his PhD thesis Before Audit. Essays on the necessity of imagination on May 25th at the Accounting section at Stockholm Business School.
Jesper Andersson and Alexander Hübbert, students in the MSc program in Banking and Finance at Stockholm Business School, are awarded the Swedish House of Finance Master Thesis Award for 2021.
Researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre are awarded a research grant of SEK 50 million by Mistra for research on how the financial sector can work for biodiversity.
Even though it’s been 18 years, the imprint the Erasmus year left on Stuart Penney remains. Among other things, it opened his eyes to working internationally, which is what he does today.
The article, entitled Machine Learning and the Stock Market, addresses the dispute between academia and investment professionals on the usefulness of technical analysis.
Fatemeh Aramian defended her dissertation "Off-exchange Trading in Modern Equity Markets: A Market Microstructure Perspective on Systematic Internalizers" on January 10th at the Finance section, Stockholm Business School.
Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we may also learn how the economic elites are made.
The purpose of the book is to arrive at a holistic understanding of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on politics, economy, business, and society in a globalized world.
We are very happy and proud to announce that a new Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF) has been established at Stockholm University.
Jesper Andersson and Alexander Hübbert have won the Skandia Theses Award. The two SBS Finance students share the award for the best Master’s thesis in Finance in Sweden in the academic year 20/21.
New grant. A project at SBS Finance that will investigate climate investments in the real estate and building sector has been awarded SEK 973 000 from Vinnova.
Alasdair Skelton from Stockholm University is present at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. He is a professor at the Department of Geological Sciences and researches the carbon cycle in the atmosphere and climate change from a geological perspective. See the interview.
Karin Bäckstrand, professor in Environmental Social Science at Stockholm University and member of the Climate Policy Council is present at the COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow. During COP26, she participates in the launch of a network for national climate councils. See interview.
Suanne Segovia from Stockholm University is present at the COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow. She is a doctoral student at the Department of Economic History and International Relations and a participant in the GlocalClim project. At COP26 in Glasgow, she meets, among other things, representatives of indigenous peoples to discuss their role in climate adaptation. Here is an interview from the climate meeting with Suanne Segovia.
How will climate policy develop after the pandemic? See live interview with political scientist Aysem Mert from Stockholm University who is present at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Do you have a sustainable business idea and want to compete? If so, the SU Business Model Cup is perfect for you! The competition is open from Sept 23 until Nov 8, all students and researchers from Stockholm University can participate.
Aylin Cakanlar defended her thesis "Essays on consumers’ socially responsible decision making" September 3th at Stockholm Business School, Marketing section.
On June 4, SBS together with the Association of Economists arranged a graduation ceremony for all students who finish their education in the academic year 2020/21.
Föreningen Ekonomerna has awarded the Ballerina Prize since 1993 and the purpose is to highlight teachers who contribute to the good academy. The prize is divided into two categories Tutor of the year and Best teaching adaption.
Guilherme Tácito from Brazil graduated from the Master’s programme in Management at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, in 2020. He now works with finance at Electrolux, a Swedish home appliance manufacturer.
