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Lund University School of Economics and Management received two prestigious accreditation messages during the summer. We are now accredited for five years by both EQUIS and AMBA, and hence belong to the top 1 per cent of Business Schools globally that hold both accreditations. John Abrahamson, Chair of the Faculty Board, and Lars Ljungälv, Chair of the Senior Corporate Advisory board for the Schoo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/school-acquires-double-accreditations-holds-high-international-standard - 2025-10-25

Lund University School of Economics and Management has received its third accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and thereby joins the ranks of top business schools worldwide awarded with a “Triple Crown”. The triple accreditation, or the Triple Crown, is the combination of accreditations held by just over 100 business schools worldwide (less than

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-joins-ranks-top-business-schools-worldwide-awarded-triple-crown - 2025-10-25

What happens when a group of people share a big interest, want to develop this, and spread it further? Well, if this group consists of PhD students, master students, teachers and researchers at LUSEM really good things can happen, as the establishment of a new Data Science Lab. Data Science Lab (DSL) is a network of PhD students and master students who keep a lab open regularly aiming for helping

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/data-science-lab-passionate - 2025-10-25

Artificial intelligence has gone from horror visions on film to a tool in everyone’s pocket. From spelling advice to shopping tips – and now to assigning work and measuring performance. What’s next? We met with organisational researcher Sverre Spoelstra to talk about algorithmic leadership and management. You may not have your boss in an app, yet. But the idea is not as futuristic as it may sound.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/he-researches-algorithmic-leadership - 2025-10-25

In Spring 2023, Daniel graduated with a bachelor's degree in information systems from the Department of Informatics at Lund University. We interviewed him about his successes in the labour market. (The below interview is translated from Swedish)Tell us about what you do today!“I work at Montell & Partners, which is a consulting firm specialising in Management and IT. I started working here part-ti

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/daniel-tomic-lindvall-alumnus-bsc-design-information-systems-2023 - 2025-10-25

The LUSEM Mentorship Programme was concluded recently with mingling and valuable experience exchanges, between student mentees and alumni mentors. The programme offers LUSEM students and professionals the opportunity to exchange valuable experiences and ideas. Students thrive and get inspired by their mentors, through guidance and practical insight into the career world. Mentors get the opportunit

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/career-and-leadership-inspiration-through-lusem-mentorship-programme - 2025-10-25

Three students from LUSEM were invited as audience for the round table discussion in Stockholm with the Nobel laureates, earlier in December. The show was broadcast on SVT and BBC World on 18 December 2023 and can be streamed online anytime. We asked three quick questions about the experience to Rami Zalfou, a doctoral student in Economic History at LUSEM.What did it feel like to participate in th

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-students-audience-nobel-minds-round-table-discussion - 2025-10-25

Andrés Palacio, Associate professor in Economic History at LUSEM, recently got funded by Formas with almost 12 million for a research project in Colombia. The project aims to enhance the sustainable development of rural and dispersed communities in tropical dry areas. The goal is to help rural communities find and adapt sustainable solutions to climate variability. Areas of interest became areas o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/empowering-rural-communities-under-climate-change-and-water-scarcity - 2025-10-25

Arne Ryde Summer School 19 August – 22 August, 2024, at 10:00 – 15:00 at LUSEM. Instructor: Anthony Strittmatter, Ph.D. (UniDistance Switzerland and Amazon)Introductory, Ph.D.-level course in causal machine learning.No prior knowledge of machine learning is needed.Open for Ph.D. students, postdocs, and faculty.Content: predictive versus causal methods; dealing with high-dimensional confounders; im

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/introduction-causal-machine-learning - 2025-10-25

Two years have passed since Swedish universities, LUSEM included, almost overnight went from campus to remote teaching. How did it go? We met up with Blerim Emruli, senior lecturer in Informatics at LUSEM and Qlik Educator Ambassador. We wanted to get a glimpse of his current thoughts on digital education. Blerim Emruli teaches and researches artificial intelligence, decision support systems and b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-teacher-digital-education-learning-each-other-key - 2025-10-25

With the Öresund as a backdrop, at the top and far end of the Ångbåtsbron bridge in the beautiful new premises of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Sweden in Malmö, the winners of the SSCEN Sustainability Award for master’s theses 2023 received prize cheques, diplomas and high praise from the centre's management team and advisory committee, as well as from the companies that have gained new know

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/brilliant-ideas-sustainability-students-honored-sscen - 2025-10-25

LUSEM is currently in the midst of ongoing accreditation efforts, with a particular emphasis on receiving the peer review team for evaluation. LUSEM is currently hosting the EQUIS peer review team for the next three days, 5 – 7 March. We extend a warm welcome to the team.The members of the peer review team are:Julia BennellDean, Leeds University Business SchoolIsabelle HuaultExecutive President &

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-welcomes-equis-peer-review-team - 2025-10-25

In 2009, Konstantinos graduated with a master's degree in information systems from the Department of Informatics at Lund University. We interviewed him about his successes in the labour market. Tell us about what you do today!“I work at Qlik, which is a software company specializing in business analytics products. My journey with Qlik started back in 2011 when I got a role as a Qlik App Developer.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/konstantinos-mertzianis-alumnus-msc-information-systems-2009 - 2025-10-25

When invited to the first ever Lund University Quality conference, Martina Oxling accepted. The conference is a good opportunity to tell people about one of the LUSEM flagships, the Change Maker Future Track. Meet Martina and learn more about the track, and her expectations and goals for the future. The Lund University Quality conference was given recently at the School of Social Work. Martina was

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/change-maker-future-track-highlighted-quality-conference - 2025-10-25

“We aim to contribute to the broader dialogue between academia and industry, ensuring that our work remains relevant and impactful in addressing contemporary issues.” This is how Joakim Gullstrand, Professor of Economics and the new Dean of Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) describes his ideas for the near future. Professor Joakim Gullstrand’s research focuses on internati

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusems-new-dean-joakim-gullstrand-leadership-and-collaboration - 2025-10-25

We are happy to announce that Mars is our latest partnership company addition at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Very known for their chocolate bars, but what was more of a news flash for some of us  was the company’s strong stakes within pet food, owning brands like Royal Canin, Pedigree, Whiskas and also Ben’s Original rice and Dolmio pasta sauces, to name but a few.“We are v

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/welcome-mars - 2025-10-25

In a recent research paper, Talina Sondershaus and her co-authors investigate how shadow banks, which are bank-like institutions that are only lightly regulated, behave in the context of climate change. They find that when society pays high attention to climate change, shadow banks start buying “brown loans”, i.e. loans from borrowers that have a large carbon footprint, while prices for these loan

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/shadow-banks-and-climate-change-ally-or-obstacle - 2025-10-25

A few days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the former Dutch Ambassador to Ukraine told BBC that his parents-in-law did not dare to go to a refugee shelter because they were afraid to contract Covid-19. This vivid example links violence and forced displacement with the Covid-19 pandemic. Sepahvand and Verwimp study this link using unique detailed panel data from

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-does-violent-conflict-affect-spread-covid-19 - 2025-10-25

Continuity in healthcare can improve health outcomes of patients by ensuring that patient-specific information is not lost in translation between providers, and by improving the appropriate follow-up care. Yet, little is known about how patients cope with the sudden and permanent loss of a main provider in healthcare, such as a primary care practice. The findings in a new PhD thesis from Lund Univ

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/closures-primary-care-practices-lead-reduction-doctor-visits - 2025-10-25

Exercise is important, yet many people struggle to achieve their goals. Part of this struggle is due to a gap between intentions and goals. Commitment contracts can help people, particularly those with low self-control, close this gap. They involve making a pledge with oneself to meet a goal and imposing penalties on oneself for not reaching it. Commitment contracts have been used successfully in

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/put-bet-it-self-funded-commitment-contracts-get-people-gym - 2025-10-25