I use good old Monopoly and last semester began using the new Monopoly City. I put students in different types of companies ... corporations, partnerships, shareholders and some individual 'working stiffs'. I have them keep a transaction record of their activity ... simple bookkeeping. They are required to pay the Governor (me) quarterly taxes. With the new Monopoly City, there is more opportunity for strategy. The biggest downfall is the chance involved with the roll of the dice. Students have great fun and do in fact learn some strategy and the importance of strategy and control.
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Jim Elias, M.B.A., APR
Management & Supervision Instructor
Business Department
Muscatine Community College
office phone: 563-288-6057
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Dear Pavel,
one commercially available game that I use to teach students about
making strategic decisions under conditions of uncertainty is Fluxx from
the company Looney Labs (http://www.looneylabs.com/). As opposed to
standard card games, where the rules, goals, and outcome probabilities
are relatively fixed, nothing is fixed in Fluxx. The rules of play and
the goals for winning the game can change with every card played.
Initially the students are very frustrated by the uncertainty, but after
about 20 minutes they get into the flow game, at which time I debrief
them about their feelings and decision making experiences. The whole
learning experience takes about an hour.
Best Regards,
Erik
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Pavel Luksha wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am looking for examples of simple classroom games that could be
> included in Strategic Management or Entrepreneurship courses, that can
> help illuminate strategic management concepts for MBA students (not
> games for HR or Operation Management courses). One example of such a
> game is Rebecca Henderson's coin tossing game described in HBR article
> 'Are "Great" Companies Just Lucky?'
>
> Thank you for any advices or leads,
>
> Pavel Luksha
> Group for Research in Organization Evolution
> University of Hertfordshire Business School
>
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
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