RESPONSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons
To address these challenges the two faculty, Sam Wood and Sunil Kumar, worked with a computer science research assistant to prototype a competitive online game named Littlefield Technologies. Despite the technical challenges that come with using a technology as new as web-based applications was in 1997, the students loved the game, rating it the most valuable assignment in the course. In addition, a subsequent student poll showed a dramatic increase in the number of students that supported Operations being a requirement for all MBAs.
In 1999, Sam Wood founded Responsive Learning Technologies to propagate Littlefield Technologies to his colleagues at other universities. Adoptions grew rapidly and in 2004 Kumar and Wood were awarded the Wikham Skinner Outstanding Teaching Innovation Award by the Production Operations and Management Society for their work on Littlefield Technologies.
Sam Wood left Stanford in 2001, subsequently assuming a position as dean of an online MBA program that grew to more than 2000 students during this tenure there. In 2004 Sam Wood became Responsive Learning Technologies' full-time president and CEO.