Virtual Business – Management 2.0 is a multiplayer-capable, software-based simulation that teaches introduction to business, entrepreneurship, management, and supervision. As entrepreneurs starting their own business, your students will find a location for their business, choose a form of ownership, hire and supervise employees, find and keep customers, and use insurance to manage risk. Challenge them to read resumes critically and choose the best people for their business. Keep your students totally engaged with management challenges such as labor shortages, strikes, problem employees, and industrial accidents.

Multiplayer Competitions
Virtual Business – Management 2.0 takes multiplayer classroom engagement to the next level with two multiplayer modes: competitive and role-based. In role-based multiplayer, students work cooperatively from different computers, taking on different roles and responsibilities including CEO/Sales, VP of Human Resources, and VP of Operations. Students are required to work together to make their business a success. In competitive mode, teams compete against each other for the highest possible personal wealth.

Easy to Use for Both New and Current Users
Virtual Business – Management 2.0 was built with both current and new Virtual Business users in mind. We have kept the same easy-to-use interface, lesson structure, and advanced levels as Virtual Business – Retailing 2.0 and Virtual Business – Sports. Beginning students will find the software easy to get started with, while advancing students will find constant challenges to keep them engaged. If you are a new user, you will find the software easy to use and incorporate into your classroom. Virtual Business – Retailing 2.0 owners will find the time they've spent learning Virtual Business – Retailing 2.0 will make learning to use Virtual Business – Management 2.0 a breeze.

Assessment Options
The Quiz Generator allows you to create quizzes with random questions based on selected lessons. Features include drag-and-drop addition and deletion of specific questions, ability to save quizzes for future reuse, ability to add your own custom questions, ability to print multiple versions of a quiz with questions randomly ordered, and more. Besides this great new assessment tool, Virtual Business – Management 2.0 also includes printable lesson worksheets, projects, and performance journals to help the teacher assess student performance.

The Educator's Choice
The Virtual Business family of simulations is now in over 5,000 schools across the United States and Virtual Business – Management 2.0 is the official competitive business simulation of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). Our simulations are built with educators in mind and are always correlated to state and national standards as well as leading textbooks. Virtual Business is the choice of key players in business and marketing education, including Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, DECA, and FBLA.

• Intro To Business
• Management
• Supervision
• Entrepreneurship

• Lessons: A series of 12 great lessons break down the tasks of hiring, managing, and supervising employees into easy-to-understand pieces. Printable assignments and worksheets guide the students through each lesson and let you document your students' success.
• Projects: Students start their own distribution business from scratch. Students record their progress in a “project portfolio” that can be used to track and assess a student’s performance.
• Competitions: Students run their franchises all within the same simulated world. You, the educator, automatically get a journal comparing the performance of each team complete with a log of the actions taken by each team.

• Virtual Business – Management software on CD
• Introductory/training DVD
• Interactive tutorial to train students
• Instructor’s Manual with lesson plans and answer key
• Full-color poster for your classroom
• Assessment CD (optional)

• Windows XP or Vista
• Microsoft .Net Framework Version 3.5 SP 1 (free from Microsoft)
• 100 MB RAM
• 50MB hard disk space
• SVGA display
• CD-ROM drive
• Local Area Network (LAN) connection*