- John Sterman
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name = John Sterman
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caption = Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
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occupation = AcademicJohn David Sterman is the
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at theMIT Sloan School of Management . He is mostly considered as the current leader of theSystem 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 theMIT Sloan School of Management in1982 . [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:
* 2005. [http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/pdf/jsterman3.pdf "Operational and Behavioral Causes of Supply Chain Instability"]External links
* [http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/ MIT page (including several published articles on system dynamics]
* [http://necsi.org/events/iccs/video/iccs2002monday/3-1stermanshortclip.mov Video clip of Sterman speaking at the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems]
* [http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/ss032207.ram/ John Sterman's video lecture "Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health", held on March 22, 2007]
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/553/ John Sterman's video lecture "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies"]
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