PhD Students
PhD students in the MIT System Dynamics Group benefit from the teaching, research, and mentorship of MIT Sloan’s world-renowned faculty.
PhD students in the MIT System Dynamics Group benefit from the teaching, research, and mentorship of MIT Sloan’s world-renowned faculty.
The MIT Sloan System Dynamics Group offers a wide array of engaging courses and hands-on learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate students.
System Dynamics was born at MIT Sloan in the 1950s and developed by Prof. Emeritus Jay W. Forrester.
Members of the System Dynamics Group proudly carry on the legacy of its founder, Jay Forrester.
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This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...
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In July 2015, MaryAnn Camacho joined Quest Diagnostics’s National Customer Service (NCS) organization as its Executive Director. Quest was the leading provider of diagnostic services and solutions in the United States. Camacho was hired to turn around an organization that had gone through a complex ...
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In July 2015, Managed by Q co-founder and CEO Dan Teran was trying to decide how best to grow the 15-month old on-demand office cleaning and maintenance company. As Teran saw it, Q, which differentiated itself from the competition by leveraging people and technology, could grow by acquiring customer...
The MIT Sloan Marketing Group faculty is engaged in award-winning research projects that cross disciplinary lines and explore new concepts, ideas, and methods.
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...