Students will enter a timed Gilded Age market challenge, analyze case evidence from major industrialists, defend an initial growth strategy under pressure, and revise their thinking after peer and stakeholder perspective feedback.

Students will analyze Gilded Age case evidence, investigate stakeholder perspectives, compare venture options with entrepreneurial decision tools, and draft a one-page problem-and-concept brief grounded in historical sources, market logic, and feedback.

Students will prototype and test their Gilded Age market simulation mechanics, gather feedback from peers acting as stakeholders, revise their strategy using historical evidence, and prepare a draft strategy brief for a scored stakeholder conference.

Students will present and defend their final Gilded Age micro-venture strategy to an authentic audience, using historical evidence, stakeholder perspectives, and simulation results to justify tradeoffs among profit, labor, competition, and public criticism, then reflect on how feedback and collaboration shaped their final decisions.