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Simulation Methods

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Case Study admin | April 3, 2013
Case Study
Acting as the CEO of New Heritage Doll company and need to decide which investment projects can create values for shareholders’ wealth so that the company can receive funding in the next five years. Student’s task is to evaluate proposed projects using the financial and qualitative information provided and to select projects to be approved for a given year’s investment plan using any evaluation criteria deem appropriate. Students are to submit the simulation online and to write a final report in a formal business format based on the simulation.

Case Study Instructions:
This is an individual assessment. You are acting as the CEO of New Heritage Doll company and you need to decide which …show more content…

The simulation is particularly designed this way for students to try different strategies in order to develop a deeper understanding of how different decisions lead to different outcomes. The Week 1 and Week 3 tutorials will particularly show you how to use the simulation, please make sure that you do attend them.

Please register and purchase the course pack using the links below and according to your location (the Course URL is also available on the Blackboard):
• For 307 onshore or Bentley students: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/17531351;
• For all 307 offshore students : https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/17531356;
• For 307 online students: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/17531435;
• For 307- Charles Telfair Institute students: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/18403140;
• For 572 onshore or Bentley students: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/17531436;
• For all 572 offshore students: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/17531451.

The marking will be based on your write-up rather than the specific scores or results in the simulation. This is because you may very well make mistakes when playing the simulation and yet learn from those mistakes. When you are done playing the simulation, you may very well be confused or even a bit frustrated by what happened to you, and that’s alright. The real learning comes from seeing the results of your actions or decisions (even if you make mistakes in your simulation

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