Publications and Working Papers
The faculty of the MIT System Dynamics group research how modeling and simulations can be applied to business, economics, decision decision-making, organizational sciences, policy-making and legislation, social sciences, and system sciences. Below are samples of their research.
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Hazhir Rahmandad
Schussel Family Professor of Management Science
Featured Publications
Rahmandad, Hazhir, and Michael Shayne Gary. Organization Science Vol. 34, No. 6 (2023): 2392-2414. Download Paper. Supplemental Materials.
Xu, Ran, Hazhir Rahmandad, Marichi Gupta, Catherine DiGennaro, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Heresh Amini, and Mohammad S. Jalali. The Lancet: Planetary Health Vol. 5, No. 10 (2021): E671-E680.
Rahmandad, Hazhir, Tse Yang Lim, and John D. Sterman. System Dynamics Review Vol. 37, No. 1 (2021): 5-31. SSRN Preprint.
Nelson P. Repenning
School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies
Featured Publications
Rahmandad, Hazhir, Nelson Repenning, and Rebecca Henderson. Management Science Vol. 64, No. 3 (2018): 1328-1347. Online Appendix. Download Paper.
Dodge, Sheila, Timothy De Smet, James Meldrim, Niall Lennon, Danielle Perrin, Steve Ferriera, Zachary Leber, Dennis Friedrich, Stacey Gabriel, Eric S. Lander, Don Kieffer, and Nelson Repenning, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5380-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2018.
Repenning, James, Don Keifer, and Nelson Repenning, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5198-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2017.
Steven Spear
Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics
Featured Publications
Steven J. Spear. London, UK: January 2017.
Spear, Steven J., and Mark Schmidhofer. Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 142, No. 8 (2005): 627-630.
McGuire, Kevin J., and Steven J. Spear. Spine Vol. 40, No. 16 (2015): 1243-1246.
John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
Featured Publications
Lane, David C., and John D. Sterman. Journal of Simulation Vol. 12, No. 2 (2018): 90-97. Access paper through MIT Libraries.
Lane, David, and John D. Sterman. In National Academy of Engineering Memorial Tributes, Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2019.
Vicky Chuqiao Yang
Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Assistant Professor in Management of Technological Innovation
Featured Publications
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Mirta Galesic, Harvey McGuinness, Ani Harutyunyan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 118, No. 35 (2021): e210629211.
Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Daniel M. Abrams, Georgia Kernell, and Adilson E. Motter. SIAM Review Vol. 62, No. 3 (2020): 646-657.