Management

Management is a business simulation board game released by the Avalon Hill game company in 1960. Description Management is a board game for two to four players that simulates business management practices of a generic manufacturing company. It was originally designed as a family game, but as The Urbanite Magazine noted in 2009, it was "used for years in many college-level business courses." In the basic family game published in 1960, players each operate a manufacturing company: purchasing supplies, determining production volume, setting sale prices, and expanding factories. Turns are measured in business cycles. Players compete with each other by secretly bidding to purchase limited raw materials, and then secretly pricing their finished product, hoping to be the lowest priced supplier. The winner is the person at the end of the game with the largest company. In 1973, the revised edition added three new layers of complexity: Basic Business Game: Adds capital expansion, financing, profit & loss statements, and balance sheets. Corporate Game: Adds economic markers, consumer boycotts, labor strife, government subsidies, discount wars, and tax reduction strategies. Classroom Game: Allows simultaneous play by an entire class.