Pan-Pacific Enterprises: Strategic Decision-Making In Action

Abstract

Pan-Pacific Enterprises creates an environment in which individual teams must make strategic decisions based on conflicting goals.  The game lasts a single class period but does require outside preparation by the students.  Several different groups are given the planning responsibility for a certain aspect of firm operations, yet the optimal solutions for each goal are incompatible.  It then becomes the responsibility of the group to resolve these differences and develop a unified plan.