Welcome to Navid Ghaffarzadegan Homepage

I am a PhD student in Public Administration and Policy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. I am from Iran, and I have been in the US since fall 2006 with my sweet wife, Niyousha. I got my BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and my Master in Business Administration in 2005, both, from Sharif University of Technology , Iran, Tehran.

My research interests can be categorized in three major groups: Organizational Behavior, Decision and Policy Sciences, and System Dynamics. The first and the most, I am interested in behavioral issues, and it is always a question for me: “why don’t we learn?” I am interested in finding more about how people make decisions, how they learn to improve their decisions, and what the barriers of social learning are. I concentrate more on organizational context.

In addition, Public Policy and Strategy are interesting areas for me. As an Iranian, I know developing appropriate policies for improving performance of socio-economic systems is a very challenging issue in developing countries.

Further, I am interested in System Dynamics (SD) and using simulation approach to analyze socio economic systems. I have learned SD in Iran from Ali Mashayekhi, and, now, studying at Albany gives me the opportunity to learn more about it form my great professors George Richardson and David Andersen.

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Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Amir T. Tajrishi, Niyousha Hosseini, Economic Transition Management in Iranian Cement Industry, Proceedings of International System Dynamics Conference, Boston 2007.

Navid Ghaffarzadegan, How a System Backfires: From a Redundancy Solution to Redundancy Problems in Security, Proceedings of International System Dynamics Conference, Boston 2007. – under review for a possible publication in Risk Analysis

Navid Ghaffarzadegan, A simulation Approach to Redundancy Solution (Problem) in Security, Proceedings of NAACSOS Conference, Atlanta 2007.

Mahshid Ghaffarzadegan, Naghmeh Karbasi, Hamid Foroughi, Keyvan Vakili, and Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Key Success Factors (KSF) for Research Institutes, Proceedings of Forth Tehran International Management Conference, 2006 (in Persian)

Ali N. Mashayekhi, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Babak Mahmoudi Ayough, Nazgol Moshtaghi,Collaborative BSC-based action planning in Imidro, Proceedings of Tehran International Management Conference, 2005

Ali N. Mashayekhi and Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Stock market fluctuations; A system dynamics approach, Proceedings of International System Dynamics Conference, Boston 2005

Ali N. Mashayekhi and Navid Ghaffarzadegan, "Analyzing stock market fluctuations for developing policies to control market bubble; A system dynamics approach ", Proceedings of Tehran International Management Conference 2004

Mohammad T. Isaai, Nami Attaassadi and Navid Ghaffarzadegan, "Using Genetic Algorithm for Resource Allocation in crisis management ", Proceedings of Tehran International Management Conference 2004

M. Jamzad, A. Foroughnassiraei, T.Hadji Aghai, V.S.Mirrokni, R. Ghorbani, A. Heydar Noori, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, F. Mobasser, M. Ebraahimi Moghaddam, M. Gudarzi, N. Ghaffarzadegan, A goal keeper for middle size RoboCup, Published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: RoboCup-2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV, pp 583-586, Springer 2001

S. Aslani, M. Majburi and N. Ghaffarzadegan, "How to prepare yourself for MBA Entrance Exam in Iran", A Series of three Books for Sharif MBA entrance exam candidates, Negah e Danesh Publication, 2002 - The books are republished for three times