Strategy & Management · General Management & Integration

COO-CEO Partnership Design — Who Owns What, Who Decides What

Draft a CEO-COO operating contract in 60 minutes with CEO Andrés Vargas-Quesada at Petrolia S.A.

12 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

Draft a CEO-COO operating contract in 60 minutes with CEO Andrés Vargas-Quesada at Petrolia S.A. Negotiate a 12-domain decision-rights matrix — capital allocation thresholds, SVP veto, customer escalations, public voice, board prep, regional GM accountability, M&A, crisis response — with the discipline that exactly one party Decides per cell.

Survive four stress-test scenarios (Friday customer crisis, cabinet departure, press question, capex defense) drawn from the Cook-Jobs, Sandberg-Zuckerberg, Iger-Staggs, and Schmidt-Page-Brin partnership canon. The contract is short because it is meant to be held in the head, not consulted in the binder.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 12 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Who Decides — and how is the cell shaped
  • Capital threshold (USD millions, COO decides below)
  • Add named sub-protocol (sharper teeth — costs one line of contract clarity)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Negotiate the Cell
  • The Contract — Cells Signed So Far
  • Trajectory of the Contract

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in General Management & Integration.

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