Ah, Monopoly – another childhood favorite. We used to change the rules so you could put as many houses/hotels as you wanted on even a single piece of real estate (which, come to think of it was much more like real life.)

There is a whole industry around customized Monopoly games – which are just fascinating – Barbie, Harley-Davidson, Albuquerque…want your own? There’s a company (or two) that would be happy to help.

All that said, I’m thinking of an academic tool – which would, of necessity, require a lot planning behind the scenes and a different type of implementation than the retail consumer games. (Plus, the game and toy industry is cut-throat. I’m a battered – um – player – having tried to launch a card game in the past.)

Thing is, the Harvard case-study method is only copied by other schools to a certain degree. Many of the most challenging classes at my school used computer sims in addition to case studies in order to increase the complexity…with professors throwing curveballs at us all day long, as well.

My MBA would have been much less stressful with Monopoly…seriously.

Brilliant! I would use it sometimes at my clases though I do not heve any relevance to MBA studies.

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