In a business management game, variation of administrative techniques can affect students' attitudes toward the simulation and their performance in the game. Dr. McKenney is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Harvard. His specialty is the field of production. Dr. Dill, formerly Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, is one of the inventors of the Carnegie Tech Management Game and has written extensively on the game. He is currently Director of the program for executives at IBM in White Plains, New York.
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