[afrancis]

Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right?

The case study is a learning tool. The required information is a starting point. It is up to the student to use the information "correctly." I recall doing one case study in a TQM course, where I was the only person who bothered to crunch the numbers and create a simple income statement which provided a powerful insight: higher than projected retail prices wasn't killing the company. Rather its return and rework expenses were.

Don`t you think that in the real world, you are faced with many situations where available data is highly ambiguous and unreliable.

Yes. However I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a graduate background in computer science and management. I've played games. However I can't recall many times I was bored in an MBA class. All other things being equal, I don't believe MBA courses, or any course, needs gamification to keep students interested. That is not the selling point. I think more about when Alan Kay talked about the rise of "Skeptical Man" and his ability to create powerful simulations and perform what-ifs and see things from multiple points-of-view. Perhaps Y-Combinator is the wrong place to argue about pedagogy. You probably have a good product. Just the rhetoric is off-putting. Immersive long running games are definitely a part of the future of business education*. Throw in some form of integration with an ERP, you have some really powerful stuff going on....

[arunbharadwaj]

Thank You. Sorry for the rhetoric. It is unintentional and is due to my belief that a substantially better system can be created.