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Author of GBG

Joseph Wolfe, Ph.D., New York University's Stern School of Business in Management, has actively researched and practiced experiential teaching methods in both their business games and case research forms for over thirty years. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Tulsa and President of his consulting firm Experiential Adventures LLC. Dr. Wolfe's work has entailed business game applications in the United States as well as in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Thailand, The Netherlands and China. In his role as an advocate of active management education and development techniques he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Strategic Management at Budapest Hungary's International Management Center and has conducted over 45 case research studies on many American and Canadian companies as well as large-scale enterprises in Budapest, Novgorod and Moscow.

The Global Business Game's author is a past President of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL) and past chair of the Academy of Management's Management Education and Development Division. He has served as Business Section Editor for Simulation & Gaming and also serves on the editorial boards of Management Learning, the Case Research Journal and the Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory. Dr. Wolfe also has served or serves on the boards of many academic organizations including the Casewriters Association, the Center for Managerial Learning and Business Simulation at Georgia Southern University, INSEAD's Center for Advanced Learning Technology, Euro Working Group 21 (Delft University), Portland State University's Soviet and East European Business Administration Center, the Kiev Building Institute's School of Managers International Advisory Board and the St. Petersburg Academy of Technology and Economics' Simulation Center Advisory Board.

During his academic career Dr. Wolfe has helped to develop a number of university-based programs in post-socialist economies. His interests have always resided in bringing change and development to a nation's managers. First work in this regard began in Central Europe in 1987 when he was part of a simulation symposium conducted at Budapest's Karl Marx University. Later travels took him to Archangelsk, Rostov-on-Don, Tambov, Novgorod, Katowice, Lublin and Moscow where he worked with both embryonic and experienced managers using Russian and Polish translated computer-based business games and specially prepared case studies. He has also delivered faculty symposia on these experiential teaching techniques at INSEAD's Center for Advanced Learning Technologies in Fontainebleau, France and in such Central and Eastern European universities as Humboldt University, Warsaw University, the Kiev Technological University and the St. Petersburg Academy of Technology and Economics. Travels have recently taken him to Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan where he demonstrated The Global Business Game published by South-Western College Publishing in 2000 and 2003. This simulation has now been migrated to the Internet in cooperation with Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc.

Over the years temporary faculty appointments have been held in Spring 1990 at Budapest's International Management Center, Central Europe's first private MBA program, and Zelenograd's School of Business in Winter 1995. At both these institutions Dr. Wolfe engaged in curriculum development activities while also developing five teaching case studies on transitioning state-owned enterprises. Three case studies were conducted on two of Hungary's major industrial firms, the Csepel Machine Tool Works and the Taurus Hungarian Rubber Company. In the former Soviet Union Dr. Wolfe studied the Transvit Company of Novogrod, Russia and Moscow's Angstrem Company. The former company is a manufacturer and light-duty transformers while Angstrem is Russia's second largest computer chip manufacturer. Both firms were experiencing the era's typical problems of excess capacity, redundant labor forces, antiquated manufacturing technologies and inadequate capital.

Dr. Wolfe continues his management education and development activities wherever possible. He has recently become Curator of the ABSEL Business Games and Exercises Archive at the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, is Chair of the ABSEL Legacy Project and was most-recently Chair of ISAGA's Outstanding Papers Committee.

GBG and Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc.

Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc. (ILS) has been the provider of a large number of Internet-based business simulations for a number of years. With this edition of The Global Business Game the game's proven content and structure has been wedded to ILS's successful interface design concepts to make the game available in its fullest form and function.