John Sterman

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.^[1][2] He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. 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.

John David Sterman
Alma mater	MIT Ph.D, 1982 Dartmouth College
Known for	Business Dynamics: Systems thinking and modeling for a complex world
Awards	Jay W. Forrester Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Systems science
Institutions	MIT, New England Complex Systems Institute

Prof. Sterman has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics,^{[citation needed]} 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 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 media for his research and innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and policymaking.

He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management 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: Systems thinking and modeling for a complex world. McGraw Hill.

Articles:

• 2005. "Operational and Behavioral Causes of Supply Chain Instability"

References

1. E. Cabell Brand (2010). If not me, then who? : how you can help with poverty, economic opportunity, education,... [S.l.]: Iuniverse Inc. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-936236-12-1. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
2. Walsh, Bryan (28 October 2008). "What the Public Doesn't Get About Climate Change". Time. Retrieved 13 April 2021.

External links

• MIT Faculty Description of Prof. Sterman's honors
• 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"
• Article on Time Magazine citing John Sterman "What the Public Doesn't Get About Climate Change"