Break-even analysis classroom activity with a free worksheet
A 45-minute break-even analysis lesson with a free worksheet and answer key. Students calculate costs and test whether a price cut improves profit.
Operations and finance
Teaching with simulations
How to Choose a Business Simulation for Your University Course
A simulation earns its place in your course when it fits the objective, works in a real classroom, and gives students evidence they can explain. Use this framework before you adopt.
Teaching with simulations
How to Run a Business Simulation in One Class Session
You do not need to surrender a week of teaching to run a useful simulation. This 75-minute plan protects access, decision time, and the debrief.
Teaching with simulations
15 Business Simulation Debrief Questions That Move Beyond the Leaderboard
The leaderboard gets attention. These 15 prompts turn that attention into a structured discussion of decisions, evidence, tradeoffs, adaptation, and transfer.
Teaching with simulations
How to Grade a Business Simulation Fairly
Grade the leaderboard and a simulation can feel unfair. This rubric rewards what students can control, support with evidence, and explain.
Economics
How to Teach Price Elasticity of Demand with a Classroom Market Simulation
Students can calculate elasticity and still miss the economic idea. Make price consequential, then ask them to test what the market evidence really shows.
Economics
Teaching Oligopoly Through Strategic Interdependence
Students can define oligopoly without feeling its central tension. Put rival expectations, entry, and irreversible commitments inside the decision.
Business strategy
Teaching Market Segmentation Through Competitive Decisions
Students can name segments without making a strategic choice. Make them choose whom to serve, align the offer, and defend the allocation with evidence.
Business strategy
How to Teach Pricing Strategy Without Rewarding a Price War
If the lowest price always wins, students are not learning pricing strategy. Make every discount answer to contribution, capacity, customer mix, and response.
Operations and finance
Teaching Supply Chain Resilience Through Inventory, Lead Times, and Service
The stockout students see now may have begun two Rounds ago. Make lead times, pipeline inventory, service, and sourcing tradeoffs visible.