John Sterman
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| 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 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".
He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982. [1]
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.
[edit] 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:
[edit] External links
- 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"
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