Studying international business usually means gaining experience abroad. Unfortunately, Covid 19 changed the plans for the students at DHBW Stuttgart and their trip abroad in the fourth semester was cancelled. For this reason, the Center for Management Simulations organized a substitute for the international exchange and found it in a simulation-based seminar together with the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Dual in northern Spain.
Business Simulations
Our business simulations can be used in a variety of ways. Read more about exciting concepts for the use at educational institutions and which courses of study, forms of learning and examination performance harmonize particularly well with the respective simulation.
Entrepreneurial Thinking with TOPSIM – Startup at BHAK BHAS Stegersbach
The BHAK BHAS Stegersbach offers a very special learning unit for its students: With STARTUP, the school developed its very own subject to gain basic, tangible insights into business life and to promote entrepreneurial thinking. Mario Zartl, the initiator and director of the program, explains to us how the business game TOPSIM – Startup contributes to this practical module.
Alfred (NY), St. Petersburg, Heidenheim: TOPSIM – Scale Up in an International Online Seminar
Over 50 students from Germany, Russia and the USA played TOPSIM – Scale Up in the international seminar. The complexity of the business simulation was just right to link the theoretical business aspects of the lectures and to apply them in practice. The students were able to get a feeling for complexity and recognize which aspects of the management of a company are interconnected.
Practical Experience at Schools with TOPSIM – easyManagement and ALWIS Saarland
Getting to know working life and economic contexts at an early stage is becoming increasingly important for students, and this is exactly what ALWIS helps with. In Saarland, the association therefore offers all secondary schools the use of the business simulation TOPSIM – easyManagement.
Learning with TOPSIM instead of an internship
The Department of Economics at Kiel University of Applied Sciences, represented by Ann-Christin Schweers, found an alternative for the internship together with the teachers of the Max Planck School: TOPSIM – easyManagement. With this business game, the eleventh grade students were able to get a realistic insight into business and its operations despite homeschooling.
Strategic Management with TOPSIM – Going Global in the Bavarian Alps
Corporate management and decision making – as part of various seminars for students at Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), professors Prof. Dr. Christian Greiner, Prof. Dr. Dominik Hammer and Prof. Dr. Thomas Peisl use TOPSIM – Going Global. In this article we explain why this seminar is conducted high up in the mountains.
Virtual seminar at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
The exchange with partner universities from all over the world is one of the highlights of studies for many students. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Darr from Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences uses a virtual business game seminar with TOPSIM.
Digitalisation in schools: TOPSIM at the Linz International Business School
Due to their high flexibility, online business simulations are a great asset for digitalisation in teaching. The Linz International Business School used TOPSIM – easyManagement in its graduating class, in the course Marketing and Controlling, and got consistently positive feedback from the participants!
EUREL International Management Cup with TOPSIM
For more than 10 years, the non-profit Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe (EUREL) has organized a Management Cup, in which electrical engineering students from different European countries come together. The goal is to become the winning company in the business simulation.