Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  Bobby Milstein

  Visiting Scientist
  

  Bobby Milstein both supports and studies innovations to improve health and health equity. He consults on the use of dynamic, democratic processes to transform health systems. With an educational background that combines anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, he specializes in large-scale institutional change and understands the need to align multiple lines of action... ... (more)

  Bobby Milstein both supports and studies innovations to improve health and health equity. He consults on the use of dynamic, democratic processes to transform health systems. With an educational background that combines anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, he specializes in large-scale institutional change and understands the need to align multiple lines of action. Milstein created the Hygeia Dynamics Policy Studio to provide a forum for diverse actors to acquire the foresight and motivation needed to craft powerful responses to pressing priorities. He also directs health system change initiatives for the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation and is a visiting scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

  From 1991-2011, Milstein worked at the CDC, where he founded the Syndemics Prevention Network, chaired the agency’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, and coordinated planning/evaluation activities for new initiatives on chronic disease, environmental health, reproductive health, emergency preparedness, and health system improvement. He was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation, helped establish the agency’s Preparedness Modeling Unit, and published a monograph entitled, Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World, which was recommended by the CDC Director as “required reading for all health professionals.” Milstein is a co-founder of the annual Institute on Systems Science and Health, and a co-developer of the HealthBound Policy Simulation Game as well as the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model, both award-winning tools that bring greater structure, evidence, and creativity to the challenge of health system change.

  Because of his sensitivity to the many concepts, methods, and moral considerations that guide public health ventures, Milstein is a trusted advisor to citizen organizations, government officials, philanthropic investors, and other innovators. (less)

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  Mark Paich

  Senior Lecturer
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  

  Mark is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on the dynamic modeling methodology, both as an experienced analyst and a proven instructor. Mark has published extensively on dynamic modeling in Management Science, Interfaces, Sloan Management Review, and several book chapters. In addition, his work has been featured in John Sterman’s Business Dynamics, Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline Field Book, and Vince Barabba’s Surviving Transformation... ... (more)

  Mark is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on the dynamic modeling methodology, both as an experienced analyst and a proven instructor. Mark has published extensively on dynamic modeling in Management Science, Interfaces, Sloan Management Review, and several book chapters. In addition, his work has been featured in John Sterman’s Business Dynamics, Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline Field Book, and Vince Barabba’s Surviving Transformation.

  Mark has been the CEO of Slaxer-Paich Marketing , a senior professor of economics at The Colorado College, a Senior Specialist at McKinsey & Co., as well as a principal in a number of dynamic modeling consultancies throughout his professional career.

  With 30 years of modeling experience, Mark has worked on client engagements with over fifty Fortune 500 companies, as well as innumerable projects with smaller firms. A crowning moment in Mark’s impressive career came when his team from General Motors received 2nd place in the 2001 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

  Mark holds a PhD in System Dynamics from MIT, as well as a Master of Economics degree from the University of Colorado and a BA in Economics from The Colorado College. (less)

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  Nelson Repenning

  Professor of System Dynamics
  

  Nelson P. Repenning is a Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and improvement of business processes.

  Professor Repenning has received several awards for his work, including best paper recognition from both the California Management Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management...

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  Nelson P. Repenning is a Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and improvement of business processes.

  Professor Repenning has received several awards for his work, including best paper recognition from both the California Management Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. In 2003 he received the International System Dynamics Society's Jay Wright Forrester award, which recognizes the best work in the field in the previous five years. His current interests include safety in high hazard production environments and the connection between efficient internal operations and effective strategic positions. (less)

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  John Sterman

  Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
  Professor of System Dynamics and Engineering Systems
  Director, MIT System Dynamics Group
  

  John D. Sterman’s research centers on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He has pioneered the development of “management flight simulators” of corporate and economic systems. These flight simulators are now used by corporations and universities around the world. His recent research ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to experimental studies assessing the public’s understanding of global climate change... ... (more)

  John D. Sterman’s research centers on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He has pioneered the development of “management flight simulators” of corporate and economic systems. These flight simulators are now used by corporations and universities around the world. His recent research ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to experimental studies assessing the public’s understanding of global climate change. Sterman‘s research includes systems thinking and organizational learning, computer simulation of corporate strategy, and the theory of nonlinear dynamics.

  He is the author of many scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today, including the book, Modeling for Learning Organizations, and the award-winning textbook, Business Dynamics. His articles on the innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and corporate problem solving have appeared in Fortune, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, as well as other newspapers and journals. He has been featured on Public Television’s News Hour, National Public Radio’s Marketplace, and CBS television.

  Sterman twice has been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the “Best Published Work in System Dynamics.” He also has won a 2005 IBM Faculty Award as well as the 2001 Accenture Award for the “Best Paper of the Year” published in the California Management Review (with Nelson Repenning). Five times, he has won awards for “Teaching Excellence” from the students of MIT Sloan, and was named one of MIT Sloan’s “Outstanding Faculty” by the 2001 BusinessWeek Guide to the Best Business Schools. (less)