Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they compete against other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. Participants buy, sell, and build ships; decide where to fish; and negoti...

In this live, web-based simulation, participants play the role of the founder of a new startup company in the exciting and competitive clean tech sector. Can you develop your technology into a successful company? Each quarter you must set prices, decide how many engineers and sales people to hire, a...

Founded in 1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Akamai provided its customers including Apple, Netflix, and Amazon services to accelerate and improve the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. By 2011, the company's globalization strategy and structure was harming its ability to com...

O Fishbanks é uma simulação multijogador baseada na web na qual os participantes fazem o papel de pescadores e procuram maximizar seu patrimônio líquido enquanto, competem com outros jogadores e lidam com variações nos estoques de pescado e na captura. Os participantes compram, vendem e encomendam b...

In late 2004, Walt Bernstein, the director of production control for Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Macon, Georgia operation, was notably frustrated with the plant manager for ChassisCo, a Toyota supplier. There were quality and conformance issues with the rear suspension cradle that ChassisCo was man...

In this live web-based simulation, participants play the role of senior management at a video game hardware platform producer, such as Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. Built around a companion case study describing the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 3, the simulation explores the dynamics of competition ...

The 2007-09 Great Recession took a huge bite out of the U.S. restaurant industry as consumers ate out less often. Even during the subsequent economic recovery, ongoing financial concerns continued to depress the appetite for eating out. The casual dining sector, situated in the middle ground between...

Fishbanks（鱼行）是一款多人参与的网上模拟游戏，游戏参与者扮演渔民的角色，在游戏中与其他玩家竞争并应对鱼类资源储量和捕获量上的变化，最终达到将自身的净值最大化的目标。参与者需要购买、出售和建造船只，决定捕鱼地点并互相协商。游戏还为讲师提供了政策上的选择，包括拍卖新船、发放许可证以及实施配额。

Auswide, an Australian bank with a strong community focus, serves as the setting for a simple bookkeeping exercise that has students utilize the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactions. Students are also asked to prepare an updated balance sheet as well as calculate net in...

Active Surfaces, an MIT start-up that developed low-cost, ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels designed to be applied to practically any surface, serves as the setting for a simple bookkeeping exercise that has students utilize the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactio...