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June 2023
Supplement

Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti

Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details

Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Platform Strategy; Technology Platform; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects

August 2002 (Revised August 2004)
Teaching Note

Crimson Greetings Simulation (TN)

By: Henry B. Reiling, M. Diane Burton and Sandra J. Sucher

Teaching Note for the Crimson Greetings Simulation. (Not in the system.) A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Management

November 15, 2022
Article

Using Simulations to Upskill Employees

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Trond Aas, Alex Hunt and Huw Newton-Hill

Reskilling employees tops the agenda in many organizations, according to a LinkedIn report. Korn Ferry estimates an 85-million person talent shortage by 2030, and McKinsey likens the challenge to the shift from agricultural to manufacturing work that occurred in the... View Details

Keywords: Employee Engagement; Managing People; Talent Development; Training; Human Capital; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Retention; Personal Development and Career

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1995
Simulation

SHARC Simulation and Teaching Note

By: K. Wade-Benzoni, A. Tenbrunsel and M. Bazerman

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution

September 1993 (Revised August 2011)
Exercise

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (B)

Second set of exercises meant to be used with ExtendSim, a simulation package created by Imagine That, Inc. of San Jose, California, that allows students to investigate the impact of adding buffers to simple in-line processes with uncertain processing times. View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Production; Mathematical Methods

September 1993 (Revised August 2011)
Exercise

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (A)

First set of exercises meant to be used with ExtendSim, a simulation system created by Imagine That, Inc. of San Jose, California. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes.... View Details

Keywords: Operations; Business Processes; Performance; Mathematical Methods

May 2025
Article

Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs

By: Pedro Bordalo, Giovanni Burro, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? Motivated by survey data on beliefs about Covid we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event,... View Details

Keywords: Expectations; Memory; COVID-19 Pandemic; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking

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1995
Simulation

Moms.com Simulation and Teaching Note

By: A. Tenbrunsel and M. Bazerman

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution

September 1993 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis, User's Guide

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Ann E. Gray

Designed to be used with ExtendSim Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (A) and (B). Unadvertised per Case Records. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes

October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
Exercise

Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (D)

This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making

October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
Exercise

Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (F)

This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making

January 1997
Background Note

Simulation as a Decision Aid

A brief introduction to simulation--what it is, why it's used, etc. Meant to set context for a first class on simulation. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Making

Educators

1988
Simulation

El-Tek Simulation and Teaching Note

By: M. Bazerman and J. Brett

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution

15 Nov 2022
News

Using Simulations to Upskill Employees

December 2002
Background Note

Simulation of Prices, Rates and Cash Flows (A)

Explicitly considers the most common propagation models for financial variables and explains how to determine the statistical properties of these variables and simulate their future values. Covers arithmetic Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, mean-reversion,... View Details

Keywords: Price; Cash Flow

Educators

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

September 1994 (Revised August 2003)
Exercise

EXTEND Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (C), Exercise Three

Third set of exercises meant to be used with EXTEND, a simulation system created by Imagine That, Inc. of San Jose, California. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes.... View Details

Keywords: Business Processes

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June 2023
Exercise

Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise Instructions

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti

Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complimentary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details

Keywords: Platform Strategies; Technology Platform; Customer Acquisition; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Strategy