Kenneth “Ken” Cooper has led hundreds of applications of System Dynamics modeling efforts for over 50 years with a total value of a quarter of a trillion dollars. He was President of Pugh-Roberts Associates, Managing Partner of PA Consulting and the founder of Cooper Human Systems. Ken is a two-time Edelman Laureate and a System Dynamics Society Applications Award winner. He is currently retired but works on select consulting projects. He earned his bachelors at MIT, studying under Jay Forrester, and his masters at Boston University.
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Ken and I continued chatting about my research interests so I cut that part out. If you would like to meet and talk to Ken and other SD practitioners, please sign up for the System Dynamics Society’s 2021 Fundraising Event for the Student Chapter!
The first WPI System Dynamics micro-course, System Dynamics Fundamentals is now available.
You can read more of Ken’s bio in the document linked below:
https://bit.ly/Ken-Cooper-2021-Bio
Ken allowed us to share the following document “Finding Better Treatments Faster: How System Modeling Can Help Advance Human Disease Research”
Below are links to more videos and articles of Ken’s work with Mastercard, Litton, Fluor, Hughes Aircraft, and the NFL:
Ken Cooper Interview Series (on YouTube)
Now, here is a poem I wrote about Ken Cooper:
Ken Cooper
Is really super-duper
He and his team's work at Pugh-
Roberts are one of the few
Finalists and winners of multiple awards
Their wiSDom and going the extra yard
Can help teams improve their records
So learn from their work with MasterCard,
the NFL, Litton, Hughes Aircraft and Fluor
About litigation and mitigation (dispute no more!)
Because lawsuits can leave one destitute
So we must be ready to be able to execute
A plan to ensure a project's survival
(And recognize the rework cycle)
Ken now models the dynamics in a human body
(Cells, neurons, glucose, insulin and antibody)
To succeed one must persevere
Do not fall prey to doubt and fear
To make modeling problems easier than they seem
Find a champion client and join a strong team
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Intro and End
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