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About the
Author
John D. Sterman is J. Spencer Standish
Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of MIT’s System
Dynamics Group. His research centers on the development of practical
methods for systems thinking and dynamic modeling of complex systems,
with applications to organizational learning and change, operations
management, corporate strategy, and nonlinear dynamics in a wide
range of systems, from supply chains to scientific revolutions.
He has pioneered the development of management flight simulators
of corporate and economic systems. These flight simulators are
used in research to understand and improve managerial decision
making in complex dynamic systems; more importantly, they are
now widely used by corporations and universities around the world
for teaching, problem solving, and policy design. Professor Sterman
discovered system dynamics modeling in high school, studied it
as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, and received his PhD
from MIT. He has been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize, given
for the best published work in the field of system dynamics over
the prior five years, and has won awards four times for teaching
excellence from the students of the Sloan School. |
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