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John Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
and Engineering Systems
Director, System Dynamics Group
John D. Sterman is the Jay W.
Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School
of Management and Director of MIT's System Dynamics Group.
His research includes systems thinking and organizational
learning, computer simulation of corporate strategy, and
the theory of nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of many
scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities
facing organizations today, including the book Modeling
for Organizational Learning, and the award-winning
textbook Business Dynamics.
Prof. Sterman's research centers
on improving managerial decision making in complex systems.
He has pioneered the development of "management flight
simulators" of corporate and economic systems. These
flight simulators are now used by corporations and universities
around the world. His recent research ranges from the dynamics
of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable
improvement programs to experimental studies assessing public
understanding of global climate change.
Prof. Sterman has twice been
awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published
work in system dynamics, won a 2005 IBM Faculty Award, won
the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper of the year
published in the California Management Review (with Nelson
Repenning), has five times won awards for teaching excellence
from the students of the Sloan School, and was named one
of the Sloan School's "Outstanding Faculty" by
the 2001 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 newspapers and
journals for his research work and innovative use of interactive
simulations in management education and corporate problem
solving.
News and announcements:
Books
Published by John D. Sterman
John Sterman discusses climate
change modeling in Nature
(Nature - September 29, 2009); This model is also the subject
of this article in The
Washington Post (September 25, 2009):
John
Sterman on overconsumption and sustainability (The New
York times' Dot Earth blog - August 31, 2009)
John Sterman receives Jamieson
Prize (May 2009)
John Sterman and risk communication
on climate change ”Risk
Communication of Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance”
Science, 322, 532-533 (October 24, 3008)
Prof.
John Sterman – Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
(May 7, 2008)
Prof.
Sterman in Boston Herald – Entrepreneurs Going Green
in MIT Course (April 11, 2008)
Prof.
John Sterman on high gas prices (July 11, 2007)
Prof.
John Sterman – Systems model shows sustained policy
incentives, carbon taxes will widen alternative vehicle
use (June 8, 2007)
Prof.
John Sterman wins 2005 IBM Faculty Award (October 6,
2005)
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