Hazhir Rahmandad

Hazhir Rahmandad is the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science and Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research examines how complex organizational dynamics lead to different practices and outcomes: how organizations learn when delays separate actions from results; strategy, from performance landscapes to capability building and the traps that erode capabilities; public health and policy, including urban dynamics, COVID-19, obesity and depression; and methods for estimating and validating dynamic models.

His work appears in *Management Science*, *Organization Science*, *Strategic Management Journal*, *Lancet Planetary Health* and *System Dynamics Review*, among others, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and a PhD in Management from MIT, and taught at Virginia Tech before joining MIT Sloan in 2015.