{"id":39,"date":"2015-12-03T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2015\/12\/03\/racing-to-the-top\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:59:00","slug":"racing-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2015\/12\/03\/racing-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing to the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->With Module 2 Finals coming to an end, first year (full-time) MBA&#8217;s are getting ready to take on the Strategy Simulation Challenge aka &#8220;StratSim&#8221;. &#8220;StratSim&#8221; is a simulation of the automobile industry, where each Cohort is divided into two parallel industries, made up of five firms. Over a series of ten decision periods (&#8220;years&#8221;), each team will have to integrate the skills and knowledge from their Mod2 Finance, Operations, and Marketing classes in order to build a successful company and beat out the competition. <i>In real terms, you get graded to play video games with three of your friends for a week :)&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TacPpVbmcMc\/VmCrkjLvrgI\/AAAAAAAACVA\/0sejFTCNgkM\/s1600\/Image.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TacPpVbmcMc\/VmCrkjLvrgI\/AAAAAAAACVA\/0sejFTCNgkM\/s320\/Image.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_GgjvsR-OHA\/VmCrljaysPI\/AAAAAAAACVI\/89XO8-yjgZA\/s1600\/IMG_0467.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_GgjvsR-OHA\/VmCrljaysPI\/AAAAAAAACVI\/89XO8-yjgZA\/s320\/IMG_0467.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size: 12.8px\"><i>Cohort C Celebrating the end of the first semester! (2014)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Module 2 Finals coming to an end, first year (full-time) MBA&#8217;s are getting ready to take on the Strategy Simulation Challenge aka &#8220;StratSim&#8221;. &#8220;StratSim&#8221; is a simulation of the automobile industry, where each Cohort is divided into two parallel industries, made up of five firms. Over a series of ten decision periods (&#8220;years&#8221;), each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76,139,179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}