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Spiro Maroulis
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Chambers Hall 600 Foster Street Room 115 Evanston, IL 60208-4057 |
Websites
My website at the Kellogg School of Management
Research/Scholarship
Education
Research Interests
Year Degree Institution 1997 Masters in Public Policy Harvard University 1993 BSE, Civil Engineering and Public Policy Studies Duke University
I research how organizations and markets change, with a particular interest in modeling how interdependent actions aggregate to organization- and market-level outcomes. Much of my current work investigates this topic in the context of trying to understand why troubled schools and school districts are so difficult to improve.Lab Affiliations
For links to my specific research, please see my personal website at Kellogg.
Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Ford Center for Global Citizenship, Kellogg School of Management
Teaching/Advising
Courses
LOC 351 Modeling Organizations This course begins with the premise that we are all modelers, in the sense that we construct explanations in our heads to simplify situations in which we want to answer a question. These may be personal questions -- such as, "What major should I pursue?" or "Is this the right summer internship for me?" They also may be questions about organizations -- such as, "Should we change the company's employee compensation policy?" When we observe organizations, gather information, draw inferences, and attempt to predict future outcomes, we are engaged in a process of informal modeling. This course will cover why and how you might convert such informal models and intuitions into more tangible, formal models you can 'run,' explore, or perhaps use to try to change some small corner of the world.