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Lake Como
Lake Como
The Lake Como simulation immerses participants in real-world sustainability challenges, bringing to life the tragedy of the commons. Ideal for graduate students and executive education programs.
Sustainability meets competitive decision-making
Created as a highly configurable experience, Lake Como guarantees participants are fully immersed in the tragedy of the commons. Ideal for both graduate students and executive education programs, focusing on sustainable business practices under competitive pressure.
How many days will you go fishing before the lake runs dry?
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1Deepen understanding of sustainability and its implications for modern business operations.
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2Cultivate decision-making skills to address complex scenarios and devise sustainable business solutions.
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3Engage in collaborative problem-solving, especially in situations mirroring the tragedy of the commons.
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4Harness insights from comprehensive debriefing sessions to foster ongoing learning and sustainable business strategies.
Three pillars of the Lake Como experience
A sustainability simulation
Ideal for business education students who want to learn about sustainability and decision-making in a competitive environment.
Highly configurable
Designed by Joaquim Virgili as a highly configurable experience, so instructors can fine-tune it to suit their personal teaching style.
Tragedy of the commons
In our competitive world some scenarios require unorthodox solutions — the tragedy of the commons is the main learning objective of this simulation.
Who benefits from
Lake Como?
Graduate students
MBA and business school students looking to understand sustainability and competitive resource management through experiential learning.
Executive education
Professionals and executives who need to quickly grasp sustainability dynamics and the tragedy of the commons in a focused, high-impact session.
Instructors
Educators benefit from a highly configurable simulation and comparable results across sessions, making debriefing efficient and insightful.
The dynamics of the simulation
Participants play the role of a local fisherman deciding how many days to go fishing each month, competing with other fishermen for the same shared resource.
What makes this simulation unique
Tragedy of the commons
Provides a realistic environment for experiencing how individual rational decisions can lead to collective irrational outcomes.
Highly configurable
Instructors can fine-tune costs, prices, and market parameters to align the simulation with their specific teaching objectives.
Comparable results
A unified results view allows instructors to benchmark participants across sessions, making debriefing faster and more insightful.
Sustainability focus
Participants directly experience the tension between short-term profit and long-term resource sustainability.
Common questions answered
The tragedy of the commons describes a situation where individual users, acting independently and rationally, deplete a shared resource through their collective action, even when it is not in anyone's long-term interest.
A typical session lasts between 60 and 120 minutes, including the introduction, gameplay, and debriefing phases.
The simulation supports any number of participants. Each plays in competition with the others, and instructors can monitor all sessions in real time from the instructor panel.
Instructors can configure costs, prices, market size, number of rounds, and other parameters directly from the game management dashboard, without any technical knowledge required.
After the simulation, instructors access a unified results view with comparable metrics across all participants, making the debriefing session faster and more insightful.
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