An Entrepeneur’s Mind Development Game “Mothers Game” for Business School Freshmen


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ABSTRACT 

 
You could play a 20-minute demonstration of this simple but 

realistic classroom game for undergraduate freshmen who just 

start to study business, management, finance, and accounting. 

The students are supposed to have no previous knowledge about 

business. 

This game seems to be a kind of a stock market game, but the 

purpose of this experiential learning is for freshmen to be able 

to understand the growing process of the development of small 

and young businesses, with possibly some of them going bank-

rupt. An actual Japanese stock exchange called “Mothers” rep-

resents the core model of the game. Mothers is short for market 

of the high-growth and emerging stocks and provides venture 

companies access to funds at an early stage of their develop-

ment and to provide investors with more diversified investment 

products. 

In this session, the game will be introduced and PowerPoint 

slides prepared by freshmen will be exhibited. 

AN ENTREPENEUR’S MIND DEVELOPMENT GAME 

“MOTHERS GAME” FOR BUSINESS SCHOOL FRESHMEN 
 

Arata Ichikawa 

Ryutsu Keizai University 

ichikawa@rku.ac.jp