The Hub: Founding Day — Sole Trader, Partnership or Limited Company

A 60-minute legal-form decision lab for IB Business Management Year 12. Three Year-12 students must register The Hub, their student-run snack bar, before they can open. Across three rounds — Discover, Stress-Test, Choose & Defend — participants weigh six axes (liability, control, capital, continuity, set-up cost, profit distribution) across five forms (sole trader, partnership, private limited company, cooperative, social enterprise). The aha moment: there is no objectively right answer. The right form depends on which axis matters most, and that depends on the founders goals.