Real-world business simulations designed for the university classroom.
Immersive, team-based learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat. Make strategic decisions, adapt to disruption, and compete on the leaderboard.
Five distinct simulations spanning the core disciplines of business education. Each one built for teams of up to five, played over five weeks.
Creativity & Change
Lead your organization through 5 years of disruption, creative problem-solving, and transformative change. Make strategic decisions, adapt to unexpected events, and build a culture of innovation.
Strategy & Competitive Advantage
Compete head-to-head with rival teams in a dynamic market. Set pricing, enter new segments, respond to competitive threats, and build a sustainable competitive advantage.
Entrepreneurship & Startup
Take a raw idea from napkin sketch to Series A funding. Navigate product-market fit, fundraising, hiring, and the inevitable pivots that define every startup journey.
Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Navigate the human side of business. Manage team dynamics, resolve conflicts, motivate diverse teams, and develop your leadership style through high-stakes organizational challenges.
Marketing & Brand Management
Build and defend a brand from launch to market leadership. Manage product launches, marketing campaigns, market research, and navigate brand crises that test your reputation.
General Management & Continuous Operations
Run a company day by day. Respond to a steady flow of in-tray events — customer complaints, employee resignations, supplier issues, board nudges — and keep the whole thing healthy.
Corporate Finance / CFO Operations
Sit in the CFO seat. Daily in-tray of covenant calls, audit findings, M&A inbound, tax positions — keep cash disciplined, audit trust intact, and capital allocated well.
M&A / Investment Deals
Run a deal end-to-end. Source, diligence, value, negotiate, close, integrate — multiple deals across the semester, with LLM personas on the other side of every conversation.
Accounting & Monthly Close
Run the monthly close. Accruals, reconciliations, adjustments, review, publish — period after period — under audit-level scrutiny.
Whether you want to bring our simulations into your classroom or create your own, we have you covered.
Bring immersive, team-based simulations into your course. Each simulation is designed to run over 5 weeks and supports classes of up to 50 students. We provide the platform, instructor dashboard, grading rubrics, and facilitation guides.
Get StartedHave an idea for a new simulation? We partner with faculty to design, build, and publish custom simulations on the Vanguard SIM platform. You bring the pedagogical expertise, we handle the technology. Authors earn royalties on every course adoption.
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