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
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.
He is also co-faculty at the
New England Complex Systems Institute. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the
System Dynamics
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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
System dynamics (SD) is an approach to understanding the nonlinear behaviour of complex systems over time using stocks, flows, internal feedback loops, table functions and time delays.
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, 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
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Guide to the Best Business Schools. He has been featured on public television's News Hour,
National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television,
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, the
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, 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
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and received his Ph.D. from the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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in 1982.
His research focuses on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He has pioneered so-called "management flight simulators" used for learning to manage the complexity of corporate and economic systems.
Publications
John 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, Business Dynamics: Systems thinking and modeling for a complex world''. McGraw Hill.
Articles:
* 2005
"Operational and Behavioral Causes of Supply Chain Instability"
References
External links
MIT page (including several published articles on system dynamicsVideo clip of Sterman speaking at the Fourth International Conference on Complex SystemsJohn Sterman's video lecture "Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health", held on March 22, 2007John Sterman's video lecture "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies"
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American operations researchers
Complex systems scientists
Dartmouth College alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
New England Complex Systems Institute