Management is a business simulation board game released by the Avalon Hill game company in 1960. Description Management is a board game for two to four players that simulates business management practices of a generic manufacturing company. It was originally designed as a family game, but as The Urbanite Magazine noted in 2009, it was "used for years in many college-level business courses." In the basic family game published in 1960, players each operate a manufacturing company: purchasing supplies, determining production volume, setting sale prices, and expanding factories. Turns are measured in business cycles. Players compete with each other by secretly bidding to purchase limited raw materials, and then secretly pricing their finished product, hoping to be the lowest priced supplier. The winner is the person at the end of the game with the largest company. In 1973, the revised edition added three new layers of complexity: Basic Business Game: Adds capital expansion, financing, profit & loss statements, and balance sheets. Corporate Game: Adds economic markers, consumer boycotts, labor strife, government subsidies, discount wars, and tax reduction strategies. Classroom Game: Allows simultaneous play by an entire class. The game comes with these components: a gameboard 60 RMU/FIU counters 32 STD/AUTO counters 24 situation cards a pad of Running Record sheets play money 2 cardboard trays a 4-page rulebook Publication history Charles S. Roberts founded Avalon Game Company (later Avalon Hill) in 1952 to publish his military strategy game Tactics. Sales were strong enough by 1959 that Roberts moved into an office space and produced a number of non-military games, Management in 1960 being one of these. In a 2009 interview, Roberts said of all the games he designed at this time, he was the most proud of Management. The first edition was released in 1960 in a flat box, then re-released the following year in a marginally larger flat box. The first issue of The General noted that Management "has found considerable favor with professional administrators. We have learned that this game has been used in various management courses." When the game was discontinued Avalon Hill claims it received "a flood of protests {...} from irate educators." After several years of not being available, the company released a new version of the game in 1973 retitled Business Strategy, with revised rules designed by Tom Shaw. The game was packaged in Avalon Hill's then-standard "bookcase" box. However, as noted in a