The POLIMI School of Management of Politecnico di Milano organises research seminars throughout the year, focusing on key research topics in management, economics and industrial engineering. The seminars feature professors and researchers from leading universities and institutions worldwide and provide an opportunity to discuss the latest research developments and current topics across different fields.

The calendar of upcoming seminars is available below:

• Lunch Seminar: Standardizing Sustainability: Does SASB Standards Adoption Reduce ESG Rating Disagreement?
  Danilo V. Mascia, University of Leeds (UK)
  24 September 2026

• Lunch Seminar: Blockchain in banking: A tale of two papers
  Tatiana King, University of Vaasa (Finland)
  25 September 2026

• Meet the Editor-in-Chief of Multinational Finance Journal
  Timothy P. King, University of Vaasa (Finland)
  25 September 2026

• Meet the Editor with Stephen Osborne
  Stephen P. Osborne, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  1 October 2026

• Meet the Editor: Publishing in Top Entrepreneurship Journals
  Thomas H. Allison, Neeley School of Business (USA)
  5 October 2026

• HumanTech Lunch Seminar: Model-Based Systems Engineering Interfaces for Human-Systems Integration
  Kavitha Chandra, Francis College of Engineering – University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA)
  20 October 2026

• Lunch Seminar: Seeing the humans: Theorizing and researching people and communities in OSCM
  Mark Pagell, University College Dublin (Ireland)
  23 October 2026

• Seminar: The Politics of the Validity of School Accountability Data Over Time
  Rachel White, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  28 October 2026

• Lunch Seminar: Dancing with Dragons: CEO Overconfidence and MNC R&D in China
  Wolfang Sofka, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
  5 November 2026

• Meet the Editor with Lamar Pierce
  Lamar Pierce, Olin Business School Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
  13 November 2026

• HumanTech Lunch Seminar: Inside the Investors’ Mind with EEG: How Evaluative Trajectories Unfold During Venture Screening
  Silvia Stroe, University of St. Gallen
  19 November 2026

• HumanTech Lunch Seminar: Organizational Neuroscience and Wearables: Opportunities and Challenges for Research in the Workplace
  Sebastiano Massaro, Surrey Business School
  30 November 2026

• Seminar: Fulfillment from Stores: An Economic Study of Store Layout and Robotic Picking in Omnichannel Retail
  Sebastian Köhler, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (Germany)
  10 December 2026

• Meet the Editor with Harm-Jan Steenhuis
  Harm-Jan Steenhuis, Texas A&M University – Texarkana (USA)
  January 2027

• Lunch seminar with Natalia Slutskaya
  Natalia Slutskaya, University of Sussex Business School (UK)
  27 January 2027

• Lunch seminar: International Business and Innovation
  Mario Kafouros, Manchester Alliance Business School (UK)
  18 February 2027