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John D. Sterman

John D. Sterman

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Business and Management

D-Index
74
Citations
54347
World Ranking
236
National Ranking
110

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John D. Sterman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work addresses several subfields, including Modeling and Simulation, Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research topics broadly cover COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Complex Systems and Decision Making, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by John D. Sterman are:

  • Behavioral dynamics of COVID-19: estimating underreporting, multiple waves, and adherence fatigue across 92 nations, 2021, System Dynamics Review
  • Estimating COVID-19 under-reporting across 86 nations: implications for projections and control, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Accelerating vehicle fleet turnover to achieve sustainable mobility goals, 2022, Journal of Operations Management
  • Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?, 2022, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Creating Strategic Reserves to Protect Forest Carbon and Reduce Biodiversity Losses in the United States, 2022, Land

John D. Sterman frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Hazhir Rahmandad
  • Juliette N. Rooney-Varga
  • Kenneth Rath
  • Florian Kapmeier
  • Karen S. McNeal

The researcher often publishes in venues such as:

  • System Dynamics Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

John D. Sterman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

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  • Modeling managerial behavior: misperceptions of feedback in a dynamic decision making experiment

    John D. Sterman

  • Learning In and About Complex Systems

    John D. Sterman

  • Learning in and about complex systems

    John D. Sterman

  • System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

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  • All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist†

    John D. Sterman

  • System Dynamics Modeling: Tools for Learning in a Complex World

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  • Learning from evidence in a complex world.

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  • Bathtub dynamics: initial results of a systems thinking inventory

    Linda Booth Sweeney;John D. Sterman

  • Systems thinking and organizational learning: Acting locally and thinking globally in the organization of the future

    Peter M. Senge;John D. Sterman

  • Heterogeneity and Network Structure in the Dynamics of Diffusion: Comparing Agent-Based and Differential Equation Models

    Hazhir Rahmandad;John Sterman

  • Misperceptions of Feedback in Dynamic Decision Making

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  • Effects of feedback complexity on dynamic decision making

    Ernst Diehl;John D. Sterman

  • Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement:

    Nelson P. Repenning;John D. Sterman

  • Transition Challenges for Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Transportation Systems

    Jeroen Struben;John D. Sterman

  • Modeling For Learning Organizations

    Peter Senge;Jay Forrester;Norman Bodek;John D. W. Morecroft

  • Transition Challenges for Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Transportation Systems

    Jeroen Struben;John D Sterman

  • Cutting Corners and Working Overtime: Quality Erosion in the Service Industry

    Rogelio Oliva;John D. Sterman

  • Unanticipated side effects of successful quality programs: exploring a paradox of organizational improvement

    John D. Sterman;Nelson P. Repenning;Fred Kofman

  • Understanding public complacency about climate change: adults’ mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter

    John D. Sterman;Linda Booth Sweeney

  • Boom, bust, and failures to learn in experimental markets

    Mark Paich;John D. Sterman

  • Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened: creating and sustaining process improvement

    N.P. Repenning;J.D. Sterman

  • Dynamic modeling of product development processes

    David N. Ford;John D. Sterman

Frequent Co-Authors

George P. Richardson
George P. Richardson State University of New York
Elena Katok
Elena Katok The University of Texas at Dallas
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Denis J. Hilton
Denis J. Hilton Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Andrew J. Hoffman
Andrew J. Hoffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cleotilde Gonzalez
Cleotilde Gonzalez Carnegie Mellon University
Michael W. Toffel
Michael W. Toffel Harvard University

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