' Geopolitical Influence and Strategy Tool - Wharton Learning Lab - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Students explore geopolitical policy outcomes and their effects on firms' costs, revenues, and assets

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The Geopolitical Influence and Strategy Tool (GIST) demonstrates geopolitical impact on business strategy through two interfaces. Students use the main interface to define scenarios, to define issues within that scenario and their corresponding status quo/extreme values, to define actors, and to modify the preferences and beliefs of the actors.

Geopolitical Influence and Strategy Tool - Main Screen

Once a scenario and its players are defined, GIST uses a sophisticated algorithm to generate two interactive graphing interfaces that display outcomes. The Utility graph depicts, at a given moment, which actors are likely to be in conflict, which actors are potential coalition partners, and which actors are likely to prevail in a dispute.

Geopolitical Influence and Strategy Tool - Actors: conflicts and coalitions

The Time Series graph displays the simulation’s outcome by plotting the expected evolution of each actor’s preference over several rounds of play.

Geopolitical Influence and Strategy Tool - Scenario Outcome

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