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Beer Game: Serious Business John Sterman

The Beer Game management simulator is actually based on a manual version called The Beer Distribution Game, created at MIT Sloan in the 1960s by system dynamics founder Jay Forrester and the MIT Sloan System Dynamics Group. It is one of many management simulators that have been developed over the years by MIT Sloan faculty, including Sterman, who is also the creator of such popular programs as Boom and Bust and People's Choice.

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