A web-based suite for interactive business learning.

"I’ve been using the Beer Supply Chain Game since 2019, and it's been an exceptional experience. Brilliant design, engaging gameplay, and outstanding support from the development team make it highly recommended!"

"For the past several years, I've been using the experiential learning simulations Avi has made generously available. I've been teaching the core MBA operations 3 management course for full-time, evening, and weekend students for many years at Rady. Across these different student demographics, I've found that the Tradewind's Newsvendor Game has added a lot of value to their understanding of inventory management under uncertainty. What I typically do is frame a business problem such as a coffee shop making a decision each evening on how many pastries to order for delivery the next morning. I have the students compete against other to see who can manage this coffee shop the best over the next 20-30 days (as measured by total profits achieved). [...] The beauty of the simulator is that it provides students an opportunity to face and experience the newsvendor problem before we cover it in detail. There is no better motivation than experiencing the feeling of being unsure of what to do on what is seemingly an everyday problem. In my view, the simulation greatly increases students' desire to become better managers and it's really a no brainer to use. I've even used it to motivate newsvendor settings in PhD classes. Interestingly, I started teaching the core MBA quantitative analysis class and have figured out ways to employ the same simulation with various appropriate extensions to this class. [...] Avi's experiential learning tools are extensible to many settings, and I highly recommend you giving one of them a shot to better see how they can benefit your students."

"We at the U of Calgary have been using the TradewindBusiness (TWB) game for several years in both our regular core MBA classes (3/year) and core EMBA classes (1/year). We use two of the games in TWB at separate times. We use the Fishing Game with the class to show how important information is — especially information that relates to tracing out the demand curve. [...] We Later in the term we use the Two-Sided Platform Game to reinforce the learning of platform mediated networks. Usually, one team gets the network externality concept and jumps ahead, then the others figure it out and we see them learning how they have to build up the two sides. [...] Students love the game, and my EMBAs have played right through the coffee break. Most importantly, students intuitively 'get' the concepts from playing the games in a deeper way than they do from lectures and cases. "

"The game went very well. Students loved it and really had some fun. This is definitely the most successful lecture in the whole semester.  Compared with the board game version, this computer- based one is so much easier to control. Students can really focus on their order decisions rather than recording the inventory history. The statistics and charts at the end of the game are so helpful for class illustration and discussion. As an instructor, the post-game statistical features of the game really facilitated my job. In a nutshell, the game was really a success. Thank you very much for developing the software and generously sharing it. If you don’t mind, I would also suggest my colleagues to use your game to replace their old-school board version. Thank you again for your contribution to the community. I am very grateful to your effort.

"I had a great session on the Fishing game last Saturday afternoon. The students really enjoyed it. The session went extremely well. Thank you so much!"

"The students really enjoyed the games and I showed them the move toward marginal cost and converging to Nash.  …. Once again, you got an awesome platform!  All students love it."

"The game we played taught a valuable lesson on how to start a platform such as Uber or Airbnb.  It is critical to establish a large enough base of users in the beginning to become stable before looking to expand.  Uber did this very well, compared to Lyft, who followed."

"Class simulation games are a fun twist in a “safe” environment to learn the challenges many startup companies face, in particular to those that are now industry giants. This competitive class environment forces creative thinking to understand the many aspects that go into decided supply and demand across a two-way digital platform."

"I really like the game and the fact how differently can platform can work. I also never really paid attention to how in fact totally different businesses and concept in fact compete with each other."

"The business simulation game was interesting to play and determine a pricing strategy to balance the supply side and consumer side. From the game, I learned that in the beginning, the priority should be to build a network base."

"I learned from and liked the Tradewinds game we played this week. I never understood the mechanics of how companies like Uber and Airbnb make a profit when they are not really the one providing services. I also appreciated how we analyzed the decision of the top performers in the class. This type of business exercise is not something that I have encountered before, and I learned much from my peers. [...] I also really learned from the discussion around two-sided network effects. This is not information I come into contact with on a regular basis, and I am beginning to understand how market disruption occurs when using models such as this."

"I also enjoyed playing the platform game.  I am in product marketing where we price things VERY differently than pricing platform access -  it was an interesting exercise for me!"

"The most profound experiences during tonight’s class were the two-sided games.  This experience truly taught the trial-and-error strategy associated pricing for customers and suppliers in a fluctuating market.  The test game was the worst for me from a revenue perspective, but I better understood that the immediate priority should be gaining customers, not necessarily maximizing profits.  However, over time, increasing revenues by leveraging a broad network of customers is profitable.  I was number 7 in the first main game, and 5th from the bottom in the second game.  I feel I concentrated too much on gaining customers and lost sight of the fact that I needed to be profitable. Either way, the lessons are invaluable."