A team led by Professor Xu Xin and Associate Professor Yi Cheng from the Department of Management Science and Engineering was awarded the 2025 AIS Impact Award. Associate Professor Lin Zhijie received the AIS Mid-Career Award, while Lin and Yi were also honored with the MIS Quarterly Outstanding Associate Editor Award by the editorial board of MIS Quarterly.

Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank Group, led a delegation to Tsinghua University on December 8, 2025, held talks with Bai Benfeng, deputy Party secretary and Tsinghua University's vice president, engaged in a dialogue with Bai Chong-En, dean of Tsinghua SEM, and took part in an interactive session with students.

Nobel-Prize winning economist Philippe Aghion, from Académie Française, delivered a lecture titled "Creative Destruction: The Power of Innovation" at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.

The 2025 G20 Entrepreneurship Roundtable was held in Shanghai under the theme "Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment: New Engine for Global Development."

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, executive director and chief executive officer of Temasek Holdings and member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM, joined Professor He Ping, associate dean of Tsinghua SEM, for a Board Members in Dialogue with Tsinghua Students session.

Erika H. James, Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM, engaged in a wide-ranging dialogue with Tsinghua faculty and doctoral students.

John L. Thornton delivered a speech and took part in a dialogue with students at Tsinghua SEM on "Talent, Education, and the Next Generation of Global Leaders," attracting nearly 100 participants.