International Management Game – An Integrated Tool for Teaching Strategic Management Internationally

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the International Management Game – a computer-based business simulation of corporate strategic management that is used as a core for strategic management classes for different audiences. The game was initially developed at the Carnegie-Mellon University to be used as a part of business school curriculum. Because of the growing importance of globalization and international relations in the last years, the emphasis in the simulation was on teaching international strategy implementation and international competition. To make it more realistic, involvement of students from various countries as participants of the simulation was encouraged. The paper gives an overview of a strategic management MBA class organized at the Carnegie-Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, a class that is also open to students from other universities worldwide. In recent years, several attempts were made to localize and use the game in other countries. The overview of modification to the simulation itself and the teaching process made by a team from team from Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation in Russia is discussed in details.