For educators

A crisis management simulation for the MBA classroom.

Case discussion teaches pattern recognition after the fact. A simulation makes students decide under uncertainty, then live the consequences. Force Majeure brings that to MBA and executive courses, free for instructors to evaluate.

Why experiential

Decisions under uncertainty, not hindsight.

A lecture case asks students to analyze a decision someone else already made. Force Majeure asks them to make it, against time pressure and incomplete information, with AI rivals running the extractive and state-capture playbooks the casebook documents. The lesson lands because students feel the cost of a choice before they read why it failed.


How it teaches

A hidden rubric, graded on reasoning.

Hidden rubric

Felt, not lectured.

A four-part formula scores every decision. Students never see a lecture on it; they feel it, then read the cultural reveal that explains what they missed.

Grade integrity

The score is not the grade.

Assessment runs on the written reflection rather than the in-game score, so the leaderboard cannot be gamed for a grade.

Real cultures

Concepts, not placeholders.

Scenarios are built on documented local concepts from the markets where the research was done.


Adopt it

Free to evaluate, priced like a course material.

Instructors get a free account and a course kit with discussion questions and debrief prompts for every tutorial scenario. Use it as a self-study supplement, a single seminar, or a full elective. Students pay about $35 per course, in the band of a textbook, and the first pilot semester is free for early adopters.

The method rests on solid ground: experiential learning outperforms lecture by a measurable margin in the peer-reviewed literature, and the scoring is calibrated to a 2021 Harvard Business Review finding on community-embedded firms in crisis.

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Common questions

Teaching with it, briefly.

How does it differ from a traditional case study?

A case study is analyzed after the outcome is known. The simulation makes students decide while the crisis unfolds, with consequences that carry across later quarters, so it tests judgment rather than recall.

Can students game the score?

No. The grade rests on the student's written reflection on the cultural reveal rather than the in-game score, which blocks speed-running and leaderboard optimization.

What does it cost to adopt?

Instructors evaluate free. Students pay about $35 per course, or about $59 bundled with the case primer, and the first pilot semester is free for early adopters.

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Next step

Tell us your course and enrollment. We send the kit and pricing for your term.

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