Nelson Repenning arrived at MIT’s Sloan School of Management as a young graduate student in 1991. Surrounded by brilliant minds hard at work building new tools and algorithms to improve operations and engineering, Nelson was struck by a realization. As good as the tools were, no one seemed to actually be using them. Since that realization, his scholarly and professional focus has been on addressing that dichotomy.
Today Nelson is a partner at ShiftGear and continues his research and teaching at MIT . Nelson is the Associate Dean of Leadership and Special Projects, and the School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Throughout his career, Nelson has focused on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and improvement of business processes. His award-winning research has been recognized by the California Management Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He is also a winner of the prestigious Jay Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society.
