GSM6222

Business dynamics is an introductory class on System Dynamics - a method of understanding the world that embraces complexity, feedback, and endogeneity. The class will prepare you to solve real-world problems using a system level view, translate your thinking into feedback diagrams, and evaluate competing explanations for surprising behavior. The class includes discussions and examples of government agencies, corporations, and non-profit groups that have used system dynamics to solve problems facing them. The class will also feature management flight simulators that allow you to test strategies before implementing them in an organization. Business Dynamics is not a math, accounting, or computer programming class. For more information about systems thinking see (http//www.systemdynamics.org/what-is-s/).

Atkinson Graduate School of Management