When Prophecy Fails: A Small Sample, Preliminary Study

Abstract

Recent studies using THE BUSINESS STRATEGY GAME have shown that the learning of and attention to strategy ratings led to superior and large performance differences between winning and losing teams. This result is observed whether or not the participating teams are reminded of the strategy rating importance at the beginning of the competition or of the relevant total enterprise (TE) simulation manual pages before both practice decisions and all subsequent real decisions. This study produces the same results but focuses on the academic achievements of the competing teams. The results indicate that higher GPA teams outperform lower GPA ones.