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Sophia Nabil (b. 2002) is being awarded this year's Anders Wall Scholarship in collaboration with SSE Business Lab. The scholarship amount is 200,000 SEK.

According to the Financial Times’ newest ranking of Europe’s startup hubs, dramatic changes are afoot: half of last year’s leading hubs have vanished from the list, while SSE Business Lab has surged ahead. Now ranked at number eight, SSE's incubator is the only Nordic hub to earn a place in the top ten.

For the past two decades, Design Thinking has been a driving force in business innovation, helping companies improve products and services. Yet, Design Thinking has serious limitations, according to new research by HOI researcher Roberto Verganti, with co-author Elizabeth Bowie Cristoforetti of Harvard, published in The Design Journal. Its extreme and close focus on user needs (or user-ism, sometimes becoming a face-lifted version of consumerism), can lead businesses to overlook broader systemic challenges, from sustainability to social responsibility. The authors argue that design must evolve—moving beyond being purely reactive to market needs and instead becoming an active shaper of a positive future.

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.

Serial entrepreneur Stefan Krook has been appointed as Practitioner in Residence at SSE’s House of Innovation. His goal is to strengthen the School’s connections with the business community and explore new paths towards a more sustainable market economy.

SSE researcher Sebastian Krakowski has been selected for the Thinkers50 Radar 2025, recognizing 30 emerging thought leaders expected to shape the future of management. The annual list, introduced in 2016, is a key indicator of influential ideas in the field.

SSE student David Graf has been awarded the Gun and Einar Larsson Stiftelse Scholarship 2025 (GELS) for his project “Agribusiness in Uganda”. The project aims to support Ugandan farmers and agripreneurs by introducing modern Swedish agtech solutions.

The Stockholm School of Economics has appointed Isabel Keulen the new CEO of its fund SSE Ventures and startup incubator SSE Business Lab. The change in leadership is happening at the same time as the incubator and the fund will move into the School’s new premises at Norrtullsgatan. The plan is to build a new hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The House of Innovation (HOI) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is inviting applications for the PhD program in Business Administration, specialization in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology (DEIT).

SSE has a long-standing commitment to both culture and wellbeing. These efforts are now becoming evident at the School’s startup incubator: more than half of the new ideas are focused around art and health.