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 The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

. He is also co-faculty at the

New England Complex Systems Institute The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent American research institution and think tank dedicated to advancing analytics and its application to the challenges of society, and the interaction of complex systems with the envi ...

. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the

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. Overview System dynamics is a methodology and mathematical ...

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, 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 ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...

Guide to the Best Business Schools. He has been featured on public television's News Hour, National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television,

Fortune Fortune may refer to: General * Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck * Luck * Wealth * Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling * Fortune, in a fortune cookie Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...

, the

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

, 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 Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

and received his Ph.D. from the

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 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"

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sterman, John 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