Forget an MBA: Hasbro forces workers to sit through a Monopoly-style board game to see if they’re fit for the C-suite—and it’s a tactic approved by Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman (Credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On the way up the corporate ladder, it’s not uncommon for companies to invest heavily in training their next generation of leaders—often by bringing in outside consultants, enrolling high performers in executive leadership programs, or even sending them off to top-ranked MBA programs.

At Hasbro, the toy giant behind Monopoly, Nerf, and Scrabble, the path to senior leadership looks a little different.