In the Sustainability Management Simulation: Net Zero learners lead an emission reductions program at a city-center hotel. By playing Net Zero, participants experience the choices, trade-offs and consequences associated with corporate emission reduction efforts. Click here for a webinar recording from Harvard Business Publishing with a demo of the simulation.
Net Zero has won the Gold Medal at the 2022 Serious Play Awards and was Highly Commended at the 2023 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards. Available in English and Spanish.
Learners take on the role of a General Manager at a 4-star city-center hotel in New York, London, or Singapore. Their task is to reduce emissions by 50% over 7 years while optimizing financial performance.
By playing Net Zero Sim, participants will learn through experience that:
Making large cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is challenging for companies, but possible.
Reducing corporate emissions does not need to go at the expense of business performance and can help to reduce costs and increase revenues (i.e., there is a business case for sustainability).
Choosing the right emission reduction strategies requires managers to think through all the consequences of their decisions and to prioritize. Not all initiatives that look "green" have a significant impact on emissions.
Corporate emission reduction efforts benefit from the involvement of employees, customers, and suppliers.
Sustainability performance measurement and analysis is critical to achieving results.
Research Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford
I ran the simulation on my programme. It is excellent! It helped surface many issues we were discussing in a practical and tangible way. It brought the discussion to life. The videos, teaching notes and deck were superb. Thank you!
Matt Offord
Lecturer in Management, Glasgow University
“Net Zero is a fantastic simulation game which focuses on the biggest challenge to 21st Century: the shift towards responsible and sustainable management.”
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