News
CIVICA European Week 2025
02 October 2025
Earlier this summer, undergraduate students from across the CIVICA alliance of European universities gathered at SNSPA in Bucharest for European Week 2025.
Gifting and Seasons at Fazer
01 October 2025
Retail Management students in Fazer Retail Club were tasked with identifying three major opportunities for long-term success to strengthen Fazer's position in key gifting moments.
Preparing for crisis: Lessons from Ukraine and challenges for Sweden
01 October 2025
What can Sweden learn from Ukraine’s wartime resilience - and when must we find our own answers? On September 26, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics hosted its second Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar, focusing on crisis preparedness and the role of municipalities in civil defence.
Fazer on Principles for International Growth
30 September 2025
Retail Management students attended a theme lecture held by Fazer and gained valuable insights into principles and tactics for scaling a brand international.
Cyber situation awareness during an emerging cyberthreat: New study in the International Journal of Information Security
30 September 2025
How do organizations actually handle a large-scale cyber incident when the "internet is on fire"? A new study from the Center for Security and Resilience at the Stockholm School of Economics provides an inside look at how a major Swedish public sector organization responded to the Log4Shell vulnerability - one of the most critical cybersecurity threats of the past decade.
Frida Pemer Interviewed in the Podcast "Jobbfika"
30 September 2025
Romania’s historical path to the West
29 September 2025
Our doctoral student, Mara Bălașa, has recently published an article in Engelsberg Ideas, offering a nuanced exploration of Romania’s cultural identity and its long-standing orientation towards the West.
Assia Viachka appointed Executive Director of GaPP
26 September 2025
We are delighted to welcome Assia Viachka as the new Executive Director of the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP). Assia joins us from the SSE Education Office, where she most recently served as Academic Controller.
What is controllability in municipality governance? New study in The Accounting Review
26 September 2025
How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".
How trust, not values, shaped Ukraine’s East - West divide before the war
25 September 2025
Just weeks before Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, a nationwide survey showed that while Eastern Ukrainians were more skeptical of democracy and EU integration, they didn’t reject liberal values like LGBT rights or personal freedoms more than those in western Ukraine. This policy brief analysis, published by Anders Olofsgård (SITE) and Cecilia Smitt Meyer (SITE), uses this snapshot of Ukraine to show that the real divide wasn’t values—it was trust in institutions.