Richmond received a B.A. in psychology from Syracuse University, an MBA from Columbia University, an MA in operations research from Case Western Reserve University, and in 1979 a PhD in system dynamics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a graduate student of Jay Wright Forrester.Arie de Geus (2002). The living company. Harvard Business Press. . p.68. At the MIT Sloan School of Management Richmond became intrigued with the possibilities of creating a software package to promote modeling and simulation activities using the new Macintosh computer produced by Apple.Ellen Beth Mandinach, Hugh F. Cline (1994). Classroom dynamics: implementing a technology-based learning environment. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994. . p. 54.
