John Sterman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. 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 Sterman's Published Works
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- Business dynamics : systems thinking and modelling for acomplex world (2002) (5598)
- Business Dynamics (2000) (1490)
- Learning in and about complex systems (1994) (1317)
- System Dynamics Modeling: Tools for Learning in a Complex World (2001) (1070)
- All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist† (2002) (935)
- Learning from evidence in a complex world. (2006) (791)
- Misperceptions of feedback in dynamic decision making (1989) (731)
- Heterogeneity and Network Structure in the Dynamics of Diffusion: Comparing Agent-Based and Differential Equation Models (2004) (728)
- Bathtub dynamics: initial results of a systems thinking inventory (2000) (664)
- Systems thinking and organizational learning: Acting locally and thinking globally in the organization of the future (1992) (542)
- Cutting Corners and Working Overtime: Quality Erosion in the Service Industry (2001) (486)
- Effects of feedback complexity on dynamic decision making (1995) (481)
- Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement (2002) (473)
- Transition Challenges for Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Transportation Systems (2007) (471)
- Unanticipated side effects of successful quality programs: exploring a paradox of organizational improvement (1997) (428)
- Understanding public complacency about climate change: adults’ mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter (2007) (408)
- Boom, bust, and failures to learn in experimental markets (1993) (397)
- Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement (2001) (379)
- Dynamic modeling of product development processes (1998) (352)
- Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance (2008) (342)
- Why don't well-educated adults understand accumulation? A challenge to researchers, educators, and citizens (2009) (342)
- Modeling For Learning Organizations (1994) (333)
- Expert knowledge elicitation to improve formal and mental models (1998) (297)
- Cloudy Skies: Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming (2002) (292)
- System Dynamics Modeling for Project Management (1992) (229)
- Thinking about systems: student and teacher conceptions of natural and social systems (2007) (217)
- Reporting guidelines for simulation‐based research in social sciences (2012) (215)
- Testing Behavioral Simulation Models by Direct Experiment (1987) (210)
- Order stability in supply chains: : coordination risk and the role of coordination stock (2013) (196)
- Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution (1999) (190)
- Communicating climate change risks in a skeptical world (2011) (189)
- Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World (2012) (178)
- Overcoming the improvement paradox (1999) (168)
- Getting Big Too Fast: Strategic Dynamics with Increasing Returns and Bounded Rationality (2006) (160)
- A behavioral model of the economic long wave (1985) (153)
- Does formal system dynamics training improve people's understanding of accumulation? (2010) (153)
- Overcoming the 90% Syndrome: Iteration Management in Concurrent Development Projects (2003) (150)
- “I’m not hoarding, I’m just stocking up before the hoarders get here.”: Behavioral causes of phantom ordering in supply chains (2015) (136)
- The Liar's Club: Concealing Rework in Concurrent Development (2003) (127)
- A Skeptic’s Guide to Computer Models (2019) (127)
- The impact of endogenous demand on push–pull production systems (2005) (127)
- Climate Interactive: The C-ROADS Climate Policy Model (2012) (121)
- Limits to growth in the new economy: exploring the ‘get big fast’ strategy in e‐commerce (2003) (114)
- Towards evaluation of systems‐thinking interventions: a case study (1997) (110)
- Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy (2018) (107)
- Expert knowledge elicitation to improve mental and formal models (1997) (96)
- System dynamics perspectives and modeling opportunities for research in operations management (2015) (95)
- The growth of knowledge: testing a theory of scientific revolutions with a formal model (1985) (94)
- A petroleum life cycle model for the United States with endogenous technology, exploration, recovery, and demand (1990) (92)
- System dynamics at sixty: the path forward (2018) (90)
- The energy transition and the economy : a system dynamics approach (1982) (89)
- Effects of feedback delay on learning (2009) (87)
- Management flight simulators to support climate negotiations (2013) (86)
- Getting quality the old-fashioned way : self confirming attributions in the dynamics of process improvement (1997) (77)
- Behavioral dynamics of COVID‐19: estimating underreporting, multiple waves, and adherence fatigue across 92 nations (2020) (73)
- Model-Supported Case Studies for Management Education (2011) (72)
- WORLD CLIMATE (2015) (68)
- Interactive web-based simulations for strategy and sustainability: The MIT Sloan LearningEdge management flight simulators, Part II (2014) (63)
- Modeling the estimation of petroleum resources in the United States (1988) (63)
- Expectation formation in behavioral simulation models (1986) (62)
- Operational and behavioral causes of supply chain instability (2006) (62)
- An experiment to evaluate methods for estimating fossil fuel resources (1985) (59)
- Ratcheting ambition to limit warming to 1.5 °C–trade-offs between emission reductions and carbon dioxide removal (2018) (53)
- Hyperchaotic Phenomena in Dynamic Decision Making (1991) (52)
- Systems Simulation. Expectation formation in behavioral simulation models (1987) (51)
- Cyclical dynamics of airline industry earnings (2013) (51)
- Bifurcations and chaotic behavior in a simple model of the economic long wave (1985) (49)
- Estimating COVID-19 under-reporting across 86 nations: implications for projections and control (2020) (48)
- Stretch Goals and the Distribution of Organizational Performance (2017) (48)
- An integrated theory of the economic long wave (1985) (46)
- WORLD CLIMATE: A Role-Play Simulation of Climate Negotiations (2014) (45)
- The economic long wave: theory and evidence (2011) (41)
- How to Save a Leaky Ship: Capability Traps and the Failure of Win-Win Investments in Sustainability and Social Responsibility (2016) (38)
- Strategem-2: a microcomputer simulation game of the Kondratiev cycle (1985) (37)
- Nonlinear mode-interaction in the macroeconomy (1992) (36)
- The long wave. (1983) (36)
- Combining role-play with interactive simulation to motivate informed climate action: Evidence from the World Climate simulation (2018) (36)
- Deterministic Chaos in Models of Human Behavior: Methodological Issues and Experimental Results (2015) (36)
- Bounded Rationality Modeling (1999) (35)
- Diagnosing surprise model behavior: A tool for evolving behavioral and policy insights (1981) (1991) (34)
- Exploring the next great frontier: system dynamics at fifty (2007) (29)
- The Climate Action Simulation (2020) (28)
- Death Spirals and Virtuous Cycles Human Resource Dynamics in Knowledge-Based Services (2010) (27)
- The meaning of models. (1994) (27)
- Economic vulnerability and the energy transition (1982) (26)
- Jay Wright Forrester (2011) (25)
- Managing the Dynamics of Projects and Changes at Fluor (2009) (24)
- Do markets mitigate misperceptions of feedback (2014) (22)
- Feedback complexity, bounded rationality, and market dynamics (1998) (22)
- Estimating the global spread of COVID-19 (2020) (19)
- 5. Playing the Maintenance Game: How Mental Models Drive Organizational Decisions (2018) (19)
- Designing corporate strategy with system dynamics: A case study in the pulp and paper industry (1995) (19)
- Supply constraints and waitlists in new product diffusion (2017) (18)
- Death Spirals and Virtuous Cycles (2010) (17)
- Stumbling towards Sustainability: Why organizational learning and radical innovation are necessary to build a more sustainable world—but not sufficient (2013) (16)
- Dynamic Decisionmaking Experiment (16)
- ReThink Health Dynamics: Understanding and Influencing Local Health System Change (2012) (15)
- Bathtub Dynamics: Preliminary Results of a Systems Thinking Inventory (2000) (14)
- Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement (14)
- What Do Managers Do? Suggestive Evidence and Potential Theories About Building Relationships * (2008) (13)
- Response to “On the very idea of a system dynamics model of Kuhnian science” (1992) (13)
- Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns of Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Adoption in the United States (2012) (12)
- Deterministic Chaos in an Experimental Economic System (2018) (11)
- Control theory heuristics for improving the behavior of economic models (1989) (11)
- Stumbling towards sustainability (2013) (11)
- Explaining Capacity Overshoot and Price War : Misperceptions of Feedback in Competitive Growth Markets (1998) (10)
- Driving the Future: A Management Flight Simulator of the US Automobile Market (2017) (10)
- Dana Meadows: thinking globally, acting locally (2002) (10)
- Interactive Web-based Simulations for Strategy and Sustainability: The MIT Sloan LearningEdge Management Flight Simulators (2012) (10)
- The Climate Collaboratorium: Project Overview (2009) (9)
- Modeling the Formation of Expectations: The History of Energy Demand Forecasts (2018) (9)
- Entrainment in a disaggregated economic long wave model (1995) (9)
- Supply Chain Management: A Teaching Experiment (2005) (9)
- A model simulator: The lives of Jay W Forrester (2018) (9)
- Unanticipated Side Effects of Successful Quality Programs: Technical Documentation (1994) (8)
- Do markets mitigate misperceptions of feedback in dynamic tasks (2003) (7)
- Mode Locking and Entrainment of Endogenous Economic Cycles (2015) (7)
- Creating Strategic Reserves to Protect Forest Carbon and Reduce Biodiversity Losses in the United States (2022) (7)
- Computer-Based Case Studies in Management Education and Research (1989) (7)
- Nonlinear Interactions in the Economy (1992) (6)
- Accelerating vehicle fleet turnover to achieve sustainable mobility goals (2022) (6)
- Business Cycles and Long Waves: A Behavioral Disequilibrium Perspective (2015) (6)
- Learning for Ourselves: Interactive Simulations to Catalyze Science-Based Environmental Activism (2015) (5)
- CURRENT EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS PROPOSALS IN THE LEAD-UP TO COP15 ARE LIKELY TO BE INSUFFICIENT TO STABILIZE ATMOSPHERIC CO 2 LEVELS : USING C-ROADS – A SIMPLE COMPUTER SIMULATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE – TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM CLIMATE POLICY DEVELOPMENT Draft (2009) (5)
- The effect of energy depletion on economic growth (1980) (5)
- Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate? (2022) (5)
- The 1996 Jay W. Forrester Award (1997) (5)
- A disaggregate population model of China (1985) (5)
- The 2001 Jay W. Forrester Award. Citation for the winner: Peter Milling (2002) (4)
- Building Consensus for Ambitious Climate Action Through the World Climate Simulation (2021) (4)
- Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock (2004) (4)
- Teaching Strategic Management with the Industry Evolution Management Flight Simulator (2006) (4)
- Reply to commentaries on “System Dynamics at Sixty: The Path Forward” (2019) (3)
- Booms, Busts, and Beer (2015) (3)
- School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (2015) (3)
- A dynamic model for health screening: misperceptions, feedback and long term trends in screening mammography (2015) (3)
- What do we really want ? (1999) (2)
- Experimental Evidence of Deterministic Chaos in Human Decision Making Behavior (2011) (2)
- A Simulation Game that Motivates People to Act on Climate (2)
- Supply Chain Dynamics , the “ Beer Distribution Game ” and Misperceptions in Dynamic Decision Making (2011) (2)
- STRATAGEM-2 (1985) (2)
- What do we really want ? A manifesto for the organizations of the 21 st Century (1999) (2)
- Quantifying the COVID‐19 endgame: Is a new normal within reach? (2022) (2)
- Interactive web-based simulations for strategy and sustainability : The MIT Sloan LearningEdge management fl ight simulators , Part I (2014) (2)
- “Saving lives or harming the healthy?” Overuse and fluctuations in routine medical screening (2020) (2)
- The energy transition and the macroeconomy: A framework for policy analysis (1981) (2)
- Comments by John D. Sterman (1996) (2)
- Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society and 50th Anniversary Celebration: July 29 - Agust 2, 2007) Boston, massachustetts, USA (2015) (2)
- 15.874 / 15.871 System Dynamics for Business Policy, Fall 2003 (2003) (1)
- Meanings , Measures , Maps , and Models : Understanding the Mechanisms of Continuous Change (2000) (1)
- Self-organization, competition, and succession in the dynamics of scientific revolution (1993) (1)
- System dynamics '90 : proceedings of the 1990 International System Dynamics Conference, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, July 10 through 13, 1990 (1990) (1)
- A note on migratory dynamics (1988) (1)
- MARKET GROWTH , COLLAPSE AND FAILURES TO LEARN FROM INTERACTIVE SIMULATION GAMES (2012) (1)
- Booms, Busts, and Beer: Understanding the Dynamics of Supply Chains (2015) (1)
- The 2000 Jay W. Forrester Award: Citation for winner: Erling Moxnes (2000) (1)
- Improving Parameter Estimation of Epidemic Models: Likelihood Functions and Kalman Filtering (2022) (1)
- Reply to comment on ‘Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy’ (2018) (1)
- Extending the Industry Evolution Management Flight Simulators : Premium Golf Club and Solar Panel Industries (2007) (1)
- Chaos and hyperchaos in an experimental economic system (1993) (1)
- Green , Simple , and Profitable : The Paradox of Failed Best Practices in University Building Maintenance (2009) (1)
- Science‐based analysis for climate action: how HSBC Bank uses the En‐ROADS climate policy simulation (2021) (1)
- The Climate Action Initiative: Deploying policy exercises and the pangaea simulation to facilitate and support long-term climate policy development (2009) (1)
- D-3783 Testing Behavioral Simulation Models by Direct Experiment D-3783 Testing Behavioral Simulation Models by Direct Experiment Testing Behavioral Simulation Models by Direct Experiment (1)
- Ratcheting ambition to limit warming to 1.5"00B0`0C"2013`0trade-offs between emission reductions and carbon dioxide removal (2018) (0)
- Serious Simulation Role-Playing Games for Transformative Climate Change Education: "World Climate" and "Future Climate" (2012) (0)
- The World Climate Project: Bringing the UN Climate Negotiations to Classrooms, Boardrooms, and Living Rooms Near You (2015) (0)
- Mitigate Misperceptions of Feedback in Dynamic Tasks ? (0)
- HOW THE SIMULATION-BASED LEARNING GAME, WORLD CLIMATE, SHAPES CLIMATE CHANGE PERSPECTIVES AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS, TRADITIONALLY UNDER-REPRESENTED IN STEM FIELDS (2020) (0)
- Policy analysis of the low-level radioactive waste-disposal problem in the United States (1982) (0)
- Beyond rounding up the usual suspects : Towards effective quality management policies for production ramp-ups in supply chains (2007) (0)
- Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Model-supported Case Studies for Management Education Model-supported Case Studies for Management Education Model-supported Case Studies for Management Education* (2008) (0)
- What Do We Really Want ? A manifesto for the organizations of the 21 St Century by The MIT 21 st Century Working Group (0)
- A Behavioral Analysis of Learning Curve Strategy (2018) (0)
- Public Outreach and Interactive Learning with En-ROADS Global Energy and Climate Simulator (2021) (0)
- Dewey Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management the Economic Long Wave: Theory and Evidence the Economic Long Wave: Theory and Evidence the Economic Long Wave: Theory and Evidence (2008) (0)
- Application of the Design Structure Matrix : A Case Study in Process Improvement Dynamics (2014) (0)
- The Transition Problem in Product Development the Transition Problem in Product Development (0)
- The 2018 Jay Wright Forrester Award (2019) (0)
- D-4672 2 / 2 Dynamic Modeling of Product Development Processes (0)
- En-ROADS: A Global Energy and Climate Simulator to Support Strategic Thinking and Public Outreach (2021) (0)
- Economic Cycles in a Behavioral Disequilibrium Perspective (1997) (0)
- Let the Games Begin: New Opportunities to Address Climate Change Communication, Education, and Decision Support (2014) (0)
- Mit. Libraries -utwci {on Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Mode Locking and Entrainment of Endogenous Econonnic Cycles Mode Locking and Entrainment of Endogenous Economic Cycles Mode Lockins: and Entrainment of O Endogenous Economic Cycles (2008) (0)
- ^ or Tb<^c/" (2008) (0)
- Jay W. Forrester 1918-2016 (2019) (0)
- The World Climate Exercise: Is (Simulated) Experience Our Best Teacher? (2015) (0)
- 15.872 System Dynamics II, Fall 2010 (2010) (0)
- Creating a Sustainable Earth: An MIT Research, Teaching, and Public Service Initiative for Understanding, Restoring and Managing the Environment A Report by the Committee to Assess Environmental Activities at MIT (2007) (0)
- The 29th Jay Wright Forrester Award (2020) (0)
- STRATEGEM-2: A Microcomputer Based Operational Game on the Kondratiev Cycle (1984) (0)
- In a Complex World (2002) (0)
- Does replacing coal with wood lower CO[subscript 2] emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy (2018) (0)
- D-3876-1 Misperceptions of Feedback in Dynamic Decisionmaking (0)
- Can role-play with interactive simulations enhance climate change knowledge, affect and intent to act? (2017) (0)
- Competitive Analysis Using System Dynamics (2003) (0)
- Trump Has a Great Opportunity to Save Our Environment (2017) (0)
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