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Every Hubro management simulation is customizable, runs inside your LMS and takes 3 to 12 hours of class time. Students take over a virtual company and run it against competitors who answer back.

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Hubro Strategic Management Simulation

The frameworks stop being slides: students analyze a moving market, then bet next quarter on what they found.

Built on the Hubro Business case with a full strategy course on top: students run PESTEL, SWOT and BCG matrix analyses on a live market, then act on what they found.

  • PESTEL
  • SWOT
  • BCG matrix
  • Market entry
  • Make or buy

4 to 12 hours · Teams of 2 to 4 · LMS-ready

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Strategy courses

Courses where the frameworks have to survive contact with a market that moves: entry, make-or-buy and portfolio bets.

The match

Hubro Strategic Management Simulation

Built on the Hubro Business case with a full strategy course on top: students run PESTEL, SWOT and BCG matrix analyses on a live market, then act on what they found.

  • PESTEL
  • SWOT
  • BCG matrix
  • Market entry
  • Make or buy
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4 to 12 hours · Teams of 2 to 4 · LMS-ready

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If you want your students to be able to apply theories in their future jobs, Hubro is the one, I found so far, to make a virtual business environment that is quite close to the real world.
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Sandra Zhu-Bandelier Business Lecturer, Cesar Ritz Colleges, Switzerland
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Built to fit your course, not the other way around

Adapt content, pacing and assessment to your syllabus and learning goals. If you need something specific, our education team helps you tailor the setup.

Rounds and pacing

Scale the number of quarters up or down and run on a schedule, from an intensive day to a full semester, with deadlines and gates you control.

Content on and off

Add or remove written assignments, exercises and market events to match your syllabus. Carbon taxation and other incentives switch on or off.

Teams or single player

Run group competition in class or self-paced individual play at home, against classmates or against bots. Both work fully online.

Balanced Scorecard assessment

Weight the metrics that match your learning objectives, from equity and market share to net profit and the ESG index, and assess teams on them.

Assessment your way

Auto-graded quizzes, reflection exercises and AI grading for written assignments, weighted how you choose.

How assessment works

LMS integration

Runs inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Brightspace with assignment delivery and grade syncing.

How the LMS integration works

Built with leading institutions, backed by Sage

Hubro Simulations is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sage, one of the world's leading academic publishers. Our simulations are developed with instructors and subject-matter experts, grounded in proven learning science.

Hubro is an AACSB Business Education Alliance partner and a Harvard Business Impact Education partner.

Management simulation FAQ

What is a management simulation?

A management simulation is an online learning tool where students take over a virtual company and run it: they set strategy, invest, produce, price and finance, and a live market answers every decision. Hubro's management simulations are customizable, run inside your LMS and take 3 to 12 hours of class time.

Which Hubro simulation fits a strategic management course?

The Hubro Strategic Management Simulation. It runs the proven Hubro Business case with a full strategy course on top: PESTEL, SWOT and BCG matrix analyses are assignments students carry out on a live competitive market, alongside market entry, make-or-buy and portfolio decisions. It is built to be accessible to a first strategy course, for business and non-business students alike.

What is the difference between the Business, Strategic Management and Managerial Accounting simulations?

All 3 run the same jetpack manufacturing case, and each adds a different course on top. The Hubro Business Simulation is the general edition: strategy, production, pricing, microeconomics and financing in balance, at home in introduction-to-business courses. The Hubro Strategic Management Simulation adds the strategy course: PESTEL, SWOT and BCG matrix assignments tied to the live market. The Hubro Managerial Accounting Simulation adds the accounting course: manual budgeting, variance analysis, financial statements and KPI-based performance measurement.

Can non-business students run a strategy simulation?

Yes. The Hubro Strategic Management Simulation is built for an introductory strategy course for business and non-business students alike: each decision is introduced as it arrives, and learner guides and an introductory video cover the mechanics. You scale the depth through rounds, written exercises and assessment choices.

How long does a management simulation take to run?

Between 3 and 12 hours of class time, depending on the simulation and the number of rounds you run. You can scale the rounds up or down, from an intensive day to a schedule spread across a full semester.

Do the simulations run inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or Brightspace?

Yes. Every Hubro simulation runs inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Brightspace, with assignments delivered and grades synced through the LMS. Students can also join by link.

Can I customize the simulation content for my course?

Yes. Every Hubro simulation lets you adapt content, pacing and assessment: scale the number of rounds, add or remove assignments, exercises and market events, and choose between team and single-player formats. For something specific, our education team helps tailor the setup.

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