Courses

VB-SB is targeted at current and aspiring small business owners. VB-SB is suitable for high-school or college students as well as the general population. High-school students and Freshman/Sophomores who take VB-SB as a formal course for 3-credits can do so with or without a project wherein a small business plan is developed. Besides Arithmetic, no major background is required. While conceptualizing, launching and running a small business in VB-SB, students cover major topics such as Strategy, Positioning, Marketing, Break-even Analysis, Accounting, Organization Behavior, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media. This coverage makes the course useful as an introduction to business for students who wish to explore a major in business. This material can also be used as a capstone course that emphasizes the application of theoretical knowledge. The number of credits should vary depending on the level and background of the students.

VB-Entrepreneurship is targeted at current and aspiring entrepreneurs. These budding entrepreneurs may be graduates or in college. Students currently in college may be of any major. The number of credits awarded would depend on the status of students, graduate or undergraduate, and if a business plan is part of the requirement. Topics covered in VB-Entrepreneurship include Strategy, Positioning, Marketing, Break-even Analysis, Accounting, Organization Behavior, Data Analytics, Incorporation, Venture Financing and Capitalization, Finance, Essential Business Laws, Digital Strategies and Analytics, HR, Leadership, Organization Behavior, Mergers and Acquisition, and Initial Public Offering.

VB-College is targeted purely at College students. It incorporates learning right from the stage of development of a germ of an idea to a globally diversified public company. It includes hands-on use of an easy-to-use built-in statistical package and cap-table software. Learnings include Strategy, Positioning, Marketing, Break-even Analysis, Accounting, Organization Behavior, Data Analytics, Incorporation, Venture Financing and Capitalization, Finance, Essential Business Laws, Digital Strategies and Analytics, HR, Leadership, Organization Behavior, Mergers and Acquisition, Initial Public Offering, Labor Relations, Compensation, Benefits, Tax and Financial Reporting, Security Regulations, Macro-economic issues, Globalization, International Economics, Global Supply Chains, and Corporate Governance.

VB-Professional is a non-technical rendering of VB-College. It can be best described as “Business for non-Business” professionals that covers Strategy, Positioning, Marketing, Break-even Analysis, Accounting, Organization Behavior, Data Analytics, Incorporation, Venture Financing and Capitalization, Finance, Essential Business Laws, Digital Strategies and Analytics, HR, Leadership, Organization Behavior, Mergers and Acquisition, Initial Public Offering, Labor Relations, Compensation, Benefits, Tax and Financial Reporting, Security Regulations, Macro-economic issues, Globalization, International Economics, Global Supply Chains, and Corporate Governance.

VB-Select is appropriate for individuals who seek enough business knowledge that will be required for new product launches within existing organizations. This simulation is great as a supplement to a marketing or management course. It incorporates materials until the development of a value proposition and its revenue-generation and profit-making potential, impact, and tracking. The underlying motivation for VB-Select is that in the final analysis, one has to be aware that benefits should outweigh the costs.

VB-Service is analogous to VB-Select but framed in a service setting. This simulation is great as a supplement to a Services Management course.

Virtual Management is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of Management. Most academic Management departments house the disciplines of Strategy, Organization Behavior, HR, and Global Management. Virtual Management covers these areas in a simulated-reality framework.

Virtual Marketing is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of Marketing. Marketing Strategy (Internal and External Analysis), the 4Ps, Positioning, Value Proposition, Revenue/Costs and Break-even Analysis, Branding, Market Research, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing, Digital Analytics, Market-orientation, and Big-Data are some of the topics that are covered.

Virtual Law is targeted at the ordinary person, high-school, and college students and professionals. Virtual Law was developed because of the legal principle, “ignorance of the law excuses no one.” In the modern-day litigious society, an average person needs to be educated on all the important and relevant laws. Virtual Law comprises topics such as Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Professional Negligence, Family/Divorce, Contract, Estate, Bankruptcy, Criminal, Constitutional/Civil, Environmental, Cyber, Entertainment, Construction, and Immigration. In the Virtual Law simulation, actors go through life and ‘life happens.’ The reader plays the role of a judge. To arrive at verdicts and rulings, the reader is expected to know the laws. Such laws are available to the reader at the click of an icon. Besides being able to “Test” users’ knowledge of the laws, the simulation provides two indices, Law Quotient, and Timid/Aggressive Scale to evaluate the intellectual capability and emotional penchant to engage in legal confrontations.

You have heard of this, “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care - Theodore Roosevelt.” Virtual Life rolls various disciplines into one. Subjects such as Financial Literacy, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Inter-personal Skills, Communications, Bullying, Self-awareness, Goals, Ethics, Emotional Control and Stress Management, and Professionalism are brought to life through vivid simulated scenarios.