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Since 2003, the Entrepreneurship Forum has recognized emerging talent in academia through its annual Young Researcher Prize, celebrating impactful work in entrepreneurship and small business research. This year’s recipient is House of innovation researcher Mohamed Genedy, whose work sheds light on the often-overlooked downsides of entrepreneurship across different ownership structures. Today, he will receive the SEK 150,000 prize at the national research conference in Örebro. We spoke with him about what drives his work - and why it matters.

At the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness (CWWH) at the Stockholm School of Economics, we are proud to initiate and organize the Swedbank & Sparbankerna Thesis Awards 2025, in close collaboration with Swedbank and Sparbankerna. The awards encourage students across Sweden to explore vital questions about financial health and wellbeing, welfare and happiness, and to share their insights with society.

The Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication (CSSC) is proud to share that Kondwani Happy Ngoma, Postdoc Fellow at CSSC, has been awarded the 2025 Coleman Prize by the Association of Business Historians (ABH) for the best PhD dissertation.

SSE graduates Marie Ehrling and Gunilla Arhén have been conferred knighthoods by H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Stockholm School of Economics is proud to congratulate Assistant Professor Diogo Mendes for being awarded for his exceptional contribution to the Corporate Finance course within the MSc in International Business program at SSE.

The Student Association at the Stockholm School of Economics has been named the Regional Winner for Europe in the PRME Global Students Sustainability Awards. The recognition highlights the group’s dedication to integrating sustainability into business education and creating real-world impact.

A new ranking by Family Capital Publishing names HOI Professor Mattias Nordqvist the most respected family enterprise scholar in the Nordic region. A leading expert in family business innovation and governance, Nordqvist is also the founder of the Center for Family Enterprise, further cementing his influence in the field.

In the annual thesis competition organized by the Swedish Competition Authority, students from the Department of Economics at SSE were recognized for their work. The first prize in the economics category was awarded to Agnes Erlandsson and Erik Leiditz Thorsson for their thesis on declining firm markups in Sweden. Meanwhile, Marcus Hagman, also from the Department of Economics at SSE, received the second prize for his thesis on collusion and price transmission in the German retail gasoline market.

Winning Project: The third-year Retail Management students in H&M Retail Club with the report "Enhancing H&M's Demand Sensing Process".

During the "Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Global Forum, it was announced that SSE’s Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) Report was the winner of the 2024 Recognition of Excellence in Reporting award, within the ‘Established reports’ category.