Expertise
Emma Stenström has spent her career at the Stockholm School of Economics researching things business schools usually avoid: clowns, compassion, and why we find it hard to understand people unlike ourselves. Bridging perspectives has been her project from the start: between art and business, body and mind, one discipline and another, pursued through interdisciplinary collaborations with everyone from neuroscientists at Karolinska to circus artists. In recent years, she has called it "bubbelhoppa", bubble-hopping, research-based methods for bridging. Underneath it all runs an existential question: what does it mean to live and work among people who see the world differently? She is an associate professor, directed the Center for Arts, Business & Culture, has run research projects funded by the EU, Vinnova, and Vetenskapsrådet, and has written some 400 columns for Dagens Industri, most of them research-based.