Tore Browaldh-föreläsningen
Varje år arrangerar Handelshögskolan Tore Browaldh-föreläsningen, där en inbjuden föreläsare belyser ämnen som förhållandet mellan ekonomi, ekonomisk teori eller ekonomiskt system å ena sidan och samhällsåskådning, politiskt system och filosofi å den andra.
1988 beslutade styrelsen för AB Volvo, som en erkänsla för Tore Browaldhs mångåriga insats som styrelseledamot, att avsätta medel till en stiftelse att förvaltas av Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Stiftelsens ändamål skall vara att en gång om året anordna en offentlig föreläsning, benämnd Tore Browaldh-föreläsningen vid Handelshögskolan i Göteborg. Den första föreläsningen ägde rum år 1989.
Föreläsare genom åren
11 maj 2023
We are entering a new era for the world economy, as the pandemic, geopolitics, climate change, and the demands of domestic social and political agendas have overwhelmed the hyper-globalization “consensus” that prevailed until recently. In this year's Tore Browaldh Lecture, Dani Rodrik, Professor at Harvard University, will sketch out possible futures for globalization.
Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Transitions. Empires, Time, and Unfreedom.
Transitions seem to turn us away from rather than towards liberty. Timothy Snyder, well known Professor and author of “On Tyranny” will speak at the Tore Browaldh Lecture on what we did get wrong and what we have learned.
Rethinking Value Creation - for innovation-led inclusive & sustainable growth.
Where does wealth come from, who creates it and what destroys it? This webinar will deep dive into global economics, as professor Mariana Mazzucato explains how capitalism can be steered toward a bold, innovative and sustainable future that works for all of us.
Why is the economics of climate change so difficult and controversial?
His talk will provide a fast-paced crash course on why the economics of climate change is so especially difficult and so especially controversial.
50 years of the Altman Z-Score model and its applications to financial and managerial markets
Professor Altman will discuss the applications of credit scoring models, including his own Z-Score family of models for financial and managerial markets. He will relate what these models are saying about the current conditions and outlook for global credit markets.
Can we trust scientific results?
There is increasing concern about the fact that many scientific results have been impossible to reproduce. This is problematic since reproducibility is a central cornerstone of scientific research. Indeed, if a finding cannot be reproduced, there are good reasons to question the finding itself. Factors contributing to a lack of reproducibility include low statistical power, publication bias, and testing of hypotheses with low prior probability of being true.
Climate Change, Risk, and Population Ethics
The actions of the current generation could have profound and far-reaching effects on future generations as is well illustrated by different climate change scenarios. This fact raises new and important but very difficult moral questions.
Europe and migrants – progress and setbacks
Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, and soon European Commissioner for Trade. Since 2010 she has been responsible for the European Commission’s work within the fields of asylum and migration, police cooperation, border control, and the fight against organized crime and human trafficking. Cecilia Malmström is formerly a Member of the European Parliament and Minister for European Affairs of Sweden. She has a Ph.D. in political science and was a researcher at the University of Gothenburg for several years, teaching in European politics.
Crises in the Euro-zone and in banks - 'too big to fail' and 'too big to save'
The lecture will focus on the need for reforms to reduce the fragility of the financial sector, as well as to enhance growth and adjustment within each country. Are EU and national decision-making bodies up to the task?
Reforming strategic analysis to meet the challenges of global competition
What have we learned from the crisis?
Paul Krugman an American economist, columnist, blogger, author and intellectual. In 2008 he was awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work associated with New Trade Theory and for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
Strategies for a Swedish Business School in Global Competition
This lecture attempts to set out some prepositions for achieving effective strategies for Business Schools in global competition. A fundamental premise is strong focus on research, but relevant to business. This must then be brought into the classroom fast. The interchange here - between new thinking and strong insights from class participants - is key.
The intellectual origins of modern economic growth
Tillväxtfrågor, global konkurrenskraft och välfärdsutveckling står ofta på agendan i den offentliga debatten. Men det är mycket sällan diskussionen förs med kunskap om de faktorer som skapar tillväxt. De ekonomisk-historiska teorierna lyser ofta med sin frånvaro.
För att tillföra debatten nya dimensioner har vi bjudit in professor Joel Mokyr för att tala om de intellektuella ursprungen till det moderna tillväxttänkandet.
2003 - Professor Nicholas F. R. Crafts: Globalization in History: a Geographical Perspective
2001 - Professor Nathan Rosenberg: University-Industry Relations and their Influence on the Competitiveness of Nations
Direktör Björn Stigson: Globalisering och företagens ansvar för miljö och social utveckling - World Business Council´s syn och roll
1999 - Jubileumsföreläsning: Moral och omoral i det ekonomiska livet
- Professor Hans De Geer: Moralen i skandalen eller den vita vågen
- Direktör Leif Vindevåg: Etiska affärer - kan det löna sig?
- Paneldebatt: Kan man lagstifta om etik i affärslivet?
1997 -Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Dr Sirkka Hämäläinen: The European Monetary Union - Principles and Perspectives
Professor Assar Lindbeck: Den europeiska välfärdsstaten
Professor John H. Dunning: Some Paradoxes of the Emerging Global Economy: The Multinational Solution
Professor Christian Grönroos: Service och kundrelationer i företagens marknadsföring
Professor Paolo Cecchini: From the European Community to the European Union - The Enhanced Commitment of the Member States
Professor Peter Hall: The European City System
Professor Horst Albach: The Unification between East and West Germany - Problems of Economic Restructuring and Research. Approaches to Solve them.
1989 Sir Ralf Dahrendorf: Transitions. Politics, Economics and Liberty


Om Tore Browaldh
Dr Tore Browaldh föddes i Stockholm år 1917. Han arbetade som finansattaché vid svenska ambassaden i Washington år 1943 och som sekreterare i efterkrigskommissionen vid finansdepartementet 1944-45, samtidigt som han var knuten till Industriens Utredningsinstitut. Han verkade som sekreterare till Handelsbankens styrelse 1946-49, som direktör inom Europarådet i Strasbourg 1949-51 och som vice verkställande direktör inom Svenska Arbetsgivareföreningen 1951-54. Från 1955 tjänstgjorde han inom Svenska Handelsbanken som verkställande direktör fram till 1966, som styrelseordförande 1966-78, som förste vice styrelseordförande 1978-88 och som hedersordförande från 1988 fram till sin bortgång 2007.
Tore Browaldh blev teknologie hedersdoktor vid Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm år 1967 och ekonomie hedersdoktor vid Göteborgs universitet år 1980. Han var under många år styrelseordförande i AB Volvo, AB Industrivärden, Svenska Cellulosa AB, Svenska IBM AB, Svenska Unilever AB och Sandrews samt vice styrelseordförande inom Nobel-stiftelsen. Han var medlem av Unilever's Advisory Board, IBM World Trade Corp. och the International Advisory Board of AB Volvo. Han skrev dessutom flera böcker, bl a självbiografierna Gesällvandring (1976), Vägen vidare (1980) och Motlut och medvind (1984).