John Sterman
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John David Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management
. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute
. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System Dynamics
school of thought. He is the author of "Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World".
Prof. Sterman has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics, won an IBM Faculty Award, won the Accenture Award for the best paper of the year published in the California Management Review, has seven times won awards for teaching excellence, and was named one of the MIT Sloan School's "Outstanding Faculty" by the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. He has been featured on public television's News Hour, National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television, Fortune, the Financial Times, Business Week, and other media for his research and innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and policymaking.
He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College
and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management
in 1982. http://alum.mit.edu
His research focuses on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He is a pioneer in the development of "management flight simulators" used for learning to manage the complexity of corporate and economic systems.
Articles:
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute
New England Complex Systems Institute
The New England Complex Systems Institute is an American research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems. It was founded in 1996 and is located in Cambridge, MA.- Overview :...
. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System Dynamics
System dynamics
System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system. What makes using system dynamics different from other approaches to studying complex systems is the use...
school of thought. He is the author of "Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World".
Prof. Sterman has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics, won an IBM Faculty Award, won the Accenture Award for the best paper of the year published in the California Management Review, has seven times won awards for teaching excellence, and was named one of the MIT Sloan School's "Outstanding Faculty" by the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. He has been featured on public television's News Hour, National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television, Fortune, the Financial Times, Business Week, and other media for his research and innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and policymaking.
He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
in 1982. http://alum.mit.edu
His research focuses on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He is a pioneer in the development of "management flight simulators" used for learning to manage the complexity of corporate and economic systems.
Publications
Sterman has written a few books and several articles. A selection:- 1994. Modeling for learning organizations. Edited with John D. W. Morecroft
- 2000. Business Dynamics: Systems thinking and modeling for a complex world. McGraw Hill.
Articles:
External links
- MIT Faculty Description of Prof. Sterman's honors
- MIT page (including several published articles on system dynamics
- Video clip of Sterman speaking at the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems
- John Sterman's video lecture "Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health", held on March 22, 2007
- John Sterman's video lecture "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies"
- Article on Time Magazine citing John Sterman "What the Public Doesn't Get About Climate Change"