Among top U.S. executives, 1961 model, one of the hottest fads going is the business game. J. P. Morgan would have sniffed in disdain, and Scots-born Andrew Carnegie would have howled at the expense. But today hundreds of U.S. companies, from small Texas printing firms to A.T. & T., are sending their employees forth to wrestle, sometimes for weeks at a stretch, with supersophisticated versions of Monopoly.
The notion of business games was borrowed from the war games developed by the U.S. Naval War College, and has been fanned to a hot flame by the development of the digital computer....