People & Leadership · Future of Work

The College Application as a Business Case — Build Your Pitch

A 60-minute lab where Year-12 IB students apply the Lean Canvas to themselves, segment a portfolio of universities by reach/match/safety on four fit axes, and write a 100-120 word kernel for their personal essay.

3 rounds Undergraduate English, Español

Preview

Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 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:

  • Problem
  • Customer Segments (universities)
  • Unique Value Proposition
  • Solution (your application package)
  • Channels (application systems)
  • Revenue Streams
  • Cost Structure
  • Key Metrics
  • Unfair Advantage
  • Kernel Paragraph (100-120 words)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Your Work

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Future of Work.

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