Force Majeure is built on decades of fieldwork in conflict and crisis economies by two researchers whose work has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize. No competitor can claim a record like this, which is why the evidence leads.
The authors’ 2021 Harvard Business Review study of businesses across seven crisis-hit cities found that firms embedded in their communities were about 3× more likely to stay profitable and 9× more likely to survive a crisis. Force Majeure turns that finding into a game: the community-embedded play wins because the evidence says it does. Read the article →
Drawn from the casebook, these four are how the engine scores every decision. Players never see a lecture on them. They experience the consequences of honoring or breaking each one.
What you actually do under pressure, not what your policy says.
The legitimacy that buys security and continuity when a crisis hits.
Treating local culture as operating reality, not a compliance checkbox.
Trust held or lost in how you speak when the stakes are highest.
Cambridge University Press. The framework that became the game.
Cambridge University Press. Evidence from leaders on leading through crisis.
Cambridge University Press and Bridgebuilders Books. The case base the scenarios draw from.
The method rests on solid ground: experiential learning outperforms lecture by a measurable margin in the peer-reviewed literature. A pre-registered study of Force Majeure’s own classroom effect is in preparation, and results will be posted here when they exist. We show what is proven today and name the rest plainly.
A pre-registered pre and post-test design across the first instructor cohort. We will publish the registration and, once data is in, the results, the way the strongest single-academic simulations do.
Early adopters help build that evidence and get the first pilot semester free.
Run it with your team, teach it in your classroom, or join the first cohort.
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