**5. Conclusions**

Management simulation is an important aspect of the kinesthetic offering of business education. Management simulations, however, are not currently games in a way that new students would recognize and this mismatch between expectations and reality can be a difficult disappointment to reset once the realization has been made. However, this gap also represents an opportunity (and challenge) for management simulations to become more engaging and relevant for learners. By separating the storytelling, the description, the decision-making, and visualization of the management simulation, it is possible to chart a future for these games that encourages more engagement from faculty to design new opportunities, as well as for students to undertake a wider range of relevant and more contextualized simulations. The major challenge being described here is the urgent need to move management simulations onward from being an outdated genre of packaged software to a transparent and shared practical object of research that can have use impact and application long after the publication of the associated journal paper.
