Global Program Architect — Launch the MSc Across AGBS's Campuses
A four-round, advanced higher-education management simulation set inside Atlantique Global Business School (AGBS), a triple-crown French grande…
About this simulation
A four-round, advanced higher-education strategy simulation. You are the Dean of Massif Business School (MBS), a triple-accredited grande école in Grenoble, France (EUR 92M budget, ~4,800 students, 165 faculty), the week of 30 September 2026.
The European Master-in-Management ranking has just dropped MBS from 32nd to 41st — its sharpest fall in a decade, driven by weak career-progression and international-mobility scores — and in the same week the board approves a one-off EUR 14M strategic envelope over three years against ~EUR 31M of credible asks (exec-ed EUR 8M, degrees EUR 11M, faculty EUR 9M, brand EUR 3M).
You must respond to the ranking AND sharpen positioning, without breaching a 2.0% operating-surplus covenant on the development loan. Round 1 diagnoses which ranking drivers are money-fixable versus structural and quantifies the portfolio gap.
Round 2 sets the differentiation positioning — deepen the responsible-innovation niche, pivot to an adjacent differentiator, or broaden toward a generalist top-40 school — and names what MBS will NOT compete on. Round 3 allocates the EUR 14M across exec-ed, degrees, faculty and brand, phases the spend across three years to protect the surplus floor, and decides the fate of two star professors being courted by rivals.
Round 4 defends the plan to a sceptical board chair and trustee, committing to four KPIs.
The math rewards concentrating a real bet aligned with positioning and punishes the five classic errors — peanut-buttering the envelope, joining an un-winnable arms race against better-funded rivals, declaring a positioning the money contradicts, front-loading spend through the 2.0% covenant, and hollowing the faculty that underpins reputation and accreditation.
Final KPIs: brand-differentiation score, reputation/ranking index, operating surplus %, and portfolio balance.
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
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.