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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.

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)
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November 21, 2025

Sergey Naumov (Smeal College of Business)
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December 5, 2025

Zeynep Hasgül (Harvard Medical School)
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