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Solar PV Industry Simulation
Understanding business process, budgeting, market share, gross revenue, net profit and a number
of other financial issues is imperative as an MBA graduate. In this Management Information
Systems (MIS) course we expose you to this in a live web-based simulation called Eclipsing the
Competition: The Solar PV Industry Simulation, from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
In this simulation you will play the role of senior management at SunPower, a leading firm in the
solar photovoltaic industry. The game simulates the solar PV industry where users compete
against other firms, simulated by the computer, and set the industry conditions so as to learn
about strategy under different conditions relating to learning, knowledge spillovers, and
competitor behavior.
Reivew this video https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/solar/Pages/Video.aspx
Then click on this link Solar PV Simulator to get to the MIT Sloan Simulation page for the Solar
PV Simulator. You will be playing as an individual so be sure click the Play as an individual
button after you hit the Play Simulator button.
The screen ID should be your First and Last name.
Objective:
The goal here is for EACH member of your team to try different scenarios in different years to
ultimately come up with the best market share, the best revenue and best profits for your
company. In the end were going to see which team comes up with the best plan! Yes, you are
competing against each other..well see who has the best results when this exercise is over.
General:
As you try different scenarios, take notes and screen shots that you can post to your group link
and share with the group members. Each student should have at least one, probably more posts.
You may run this simulator multiple times until youre comfortable with what you achieved.
Whats the best approach? The best way to do this is for each student to try the simulator,
making notes as you go thru the simulator each year. Now go back into the simulator and try
some new scenarios. The simulator ends after 18 years of running so be sure to go through and
do all 18 years.
Obviously, someone on your team will come up with the best numbers, others will be close,
some may be way off. At this point it doesnt matter if you did the best for your team or the
worse, what does matter is that you tried and that you have something on the discussion board to
prove it. AND, the real question here is has you team come up with best scenario as compared to
all the other teams in the class that youre competing against.
Deliverables:
By Wednesday night of the week assigned, each student will have completed the task above,
running the simulator through a variety of scenarios and posting the results to the group
discussion board.
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/solar/Pages/Video.aspx
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/solar/Pages/default.aspx
By Friday night of the week assigned create a group power point presentation (PPT) and post this
to your group Discussion Board, naming it GroupXX-Final PPT. The PPT will include the
following:
1. First slide, Group # and list of participants. Nonparticipants name needs to be in red type
2. One slide of each students best result. 8 students on the team, 8 slides. Be sure to include
the student name on each slide. If a student did not participate, put in a blank slide with
their name on it.
3. A slide showing the scenario the team chose to go with outlining the steps you took to
achieve your final results.
4. Research and cite sources on things like market share and what that means to your
company, emissions saved, annual revenues versus cost of goods sold, annual net
income and NPVin general a little research and discussion on an income statement,
what is it and what does it mean to your company. You many also discuss any other thing
that caught your attention.
5. As a group, discuss how you might use a simulator like this in real-life, if for example
you were running a business like this.
6. Refer to chapter 2 of the book: If you were setting up a new business like this, what kind
of systems would you use? MIS, DSS, EIS, ERP, Cloud?
7. Refer to chapter 3 of the book: How might you use Data Analytics, BI, etc. in this
business.
8. Any closing comments
In sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 above the group should assign work to each student and each student
should come up with 2 -3 slides for this. Therefore, the entire presentation should easily be 20+
slides.
9. After posting your group PPT to the group Discussion Board on Friday night, naming it
GroupXX-Final PPT as outlined above, post this same file to the Group Assignment
Solar PV submission link as well as the General Discussion Board for Solar PPTs so that
ALL students in the class have access to it. This needs to be done by Friday night so that
the following can be accomplished.
10. By Sunday night of the week assigned everyone should have looked at the posted PPTs
and commented on at least one other group (not your own).
