Our Success Stories

Learn more about our recent academic & corporate learning partnerships

Bridging Theory and Practice in Healthcare Management

NYU Wagner

NYU Wagner is committed to equipping its students with the knowledge and skills to make evidence-based decisions, create high-quality and cost-effective healthcare organizations, and promote health equity. To achieve this, the program emphasizes core competencies and integrates academic coursework with practical experience. The “Healthcare Hero” simulation serves as a cornerstone in their capstone projects, providing a dynamic, real-world learning environment.

 

Students perceive the simulation as a “substantial and effective group project assignment,” feeling more like a “work project than a school project,” and appreciating the “realistic environment” for testing skills in a “safer setting.”

Online Delivery and Strategic Budget Planning

AdventHealth University

AdventHealth University leveraged Healthcare Hero to enhance its curriculum, particularly focusing on online delivery and the integration of strategic budget planning. The simulation provides a crucial platform for students to engage with complex financial and operational challenges inherent in healthcare management.

“Healthcare Hero demonstrates its effectiveness as an online learning tool, particularly for developing strategic budget planning and integrated decision-making skills in healthcare management students.”

UCL Global Business School for Health

London, United Kingdom

EMBA Students from UCL Global Business School for Health have shared their experience with our healthcare management simulation. Watch the testimonial videos below and download our case study to see what made the experience stand out for them and how it enhanced their understanding of health management strategy, finance and leadership.

“Some of us were very enthusiastic (…) about the simulations program, specifically the financial simulation (…) because you’re playing with numbers, and sometimes you don’t want to play numbers in real life, you don’t want to make those decisions in real life.”

Healthcare Hero Simulation Game

Maastricht University, Netherlands

Having adopted the Healthcare Hero simulation game in 2020, Maastricht University has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the way students engage with and comprehend strategic healthcare management through the Healthcare Hero simulation game.

“The simulation injects a dose of reality into the learning experience. It’s not just about theory; it’s about applying that knowledge in a dynamic, competitive environment that closely mirrors the challenges of the healthcare industry.”

Organizational Behavior Concepts Brought to Life

University of Delaware, Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics

This partnership created a “flipped classroom” experience for Organizational Behavior (OB) students using HFX’s flagship simulation, The Strategy Game. Self-directed teams of students used the simulation to practice, refine, and reflect upon core OB concepts and skills.

“I learned a lot about strategy and business. It was really helpful to be able to test out strategies in a simulation that replicates real life situations before actually entering the workforce!”

A Corporate Learning Environment, Transformed

Essilor Brazil, Human Resources

In partnership with HR leadership, HFX provided online, distance learning management training to 150 employees across ten offices, designed to enhance strategic, management, & decision-making skills of top and middle management.

“Without a doubt – and I have worked here for 5 years – this is the best training I have ever done. Those teams that really threw themselves into the game and took it seriously, had a really enriching experience.”

A Customized "Doing Business in" Course

The King's College, New York City

The HFX Team partners with King’s College to create a customized “Doing Business in New York” business simulation course, providing students with a hands-on learning experience that brought course materials and theory to life using The Strategy Game.

“My students were able to practically apply many of the concepts we discussed. It is one thing to discuss the difficulty of balancing short- and long-term goals as a business. It’s another thing for students to experience that firsthand.”

Secondary School Principles of Management Workshop

St. Paul's School, London

HFX partnered with one of the UK’s top private schools, St. Paul’s School in London, to provide a one-day, Instructor-Led business simulation workshop for local students from years 12 and 13 (16-18). Using our flagship simulation, The Strategy Game, students were challenged to navigate several rounds of decision-making while setting and adhering to a commercial strategy in a dynamic, changing environment.

“It was amazing to see the students so engaged in an event like this, coming as it did at the end of a long term, and just two days before the Christmas holidays!”

Online Learning Success Story

Massey University, New Zealand

HFX recently partnered with the Master’s in Management Program at Massey University, New Zealand, to adapt its Professional Practice Capstone to an online learning delivery format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns. With hands-on delivery support from the HFX team, Massey used our flagship simulation, The Strategy Game, to provide a hands-on, experiential learning component to its online capstone.

“The game is simple to understand and operate, yet sophisticated in its modelling. Having HFX there guiding me through was the real bonus though, I could not have done this on my own.”