System Dynamics

System Dynamics Seminars

MIT Sloan brings together industry and academic leaders to discuss how System Dynamics can help us better understand complex challenges, shape policy, influence decision-making, and yield lasting benefits for businesses and society.

System Dynamics Seminars are currently held most Fridays from 12:00-1:30pm ET in the Jay W. Forrester conference room (E62-450) and via Zoom this semester, unless otherwise specified. Please email Jocelyn Climent at jcliment@mit.edu to be added to our mailing list and receive updates.

The schedule and guest speakers will be posted as information becomes available.

Current Seminars

  • September 26, 2025

    Phanish Puranam (INSEAD)

    Adaptation as Search Under Reachability and Own-Action Dependence Constraints 

  • October 10, 2025

    Henk Akkermans (Tilburg University)

    Of organizational decay and our (in)ability to avoid it: dynamic models of business tsunami and confidence traps

  • October 31, 2025

    Zhike Lei (IMD)

    Title TBA

  • November 7, 2025

    Amir Goldberg (Stanford University)

    Title TBA

  • November 21, 2025

    Sergey Naumov (Smeal College of Business) 

    Title TBA

  • December 5, 2025

    Zeynep Hasgül (Harvard Medical School)

    Title TBA