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Donald Kieffer is a Senior Lecturer in System Dynamics at MIT Sloan School of Management. He has a diverse career in operations, having co-created Dynamic Work Design and served as Vice President of Operational Excellence at Harley-Davidson for 15 years. Beginning his career running equipment factories at age 17, Kieffer has advised executive teams globally in areas including strategy deployment, product development, and operational improvement across various industries such as oil and gas, medical, and banking. His expertise was instrumental in transforming production and technical development for a Cambridge-based genomic sequencing organization using Dynamic Work Design techniques. Kieffer is also the founder of ShiftGear Work Design, LLC, where he teaches Operations Management at AVT Copenhagen. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
MIT Sloan School of Management • Cambridge, MA
Teach courses in System Dynamics and Operations Management, focusing on adaptive problem-solving and business process design.