Teaching Evidence-Based Management

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions What are we really teaching when we teach evidence-based management? Teachers often hope their students leave with more than knowledge of concepts and frameworks. But how do we know whether learning has changed the way people approach problems, make decisions, and reason through uncertainty? And what do students carry into practice once the course...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions People working in evidence-based management can sometimes feel like they are swimming against the tide. But they are part of something much larger. In this episode we hear from science journalist Helen Pearson about her new book Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works . The conversation steps back from evidence-based management to look...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Working with evidence-based management can be uncomfortable. It asks people to sit with uncertainty rather than reach for certainty — something many of us are rewarded for in organisational life. This conversation explores what that discomfort looks like in practice, and how uncertainty shows up when people engage seriously with evidence — whether...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was recorded live with three evidence-based management experts, Denise Rousseau, Rob Briner and Eric Barends, answering and discussing questions sent in by teachers and students of the subject.  During the disucssion, we touched on many aspects of evidence-based management, including:  Starting with basic principles rather than complex...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions The gap between management research and practice remains stubbornly wide, but a growing movement of dedicated educators is working to change that by embedding evidence-based management into university curricula. This episode explores their journeys, challenges, and successes. We hear from three university teachers who have pioneered different appro...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions In teaching students how to gather and appraise evidence from scientific literature, it's important to guide them through the process step by step. Commonly referred to as a C ritically A ppraised T opic (or CAT), it's quite obviously a difficult process to do, let alone to teach. Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management Eric...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Why do students choose to study evidence-based management, and what do they value about the way it's taught and the skills and experience they acquire? Here we spotlight the stories of five students who have transformed their approach to learning and working through evidence-based management.  We explore the tangible benefits of evidence-based...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode explores the teaching challenges and rewards of Executive Doctorate or DBA (Doctorate of Business Administration) programmes. Executive Doctorate / DBA students may be pursuing a move to academia - in which case the task for their professors is to make them better teachers by adding a research component to their practitioner expertise....

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Teaching evidence-based management to executive students (those who are already experienced managers within organisations) requires a different approach to the teaching of students at undergraduate level.  With executive students, we are presented with people who have seen it all, done it all, and have certainly got the scars on their backs to prov...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions In this introduction to the podcast, step into the groundbreaking realm of Evidence-Based Management (EBM) with us as we chart its evolution from the influential Evidence-Based Medicine movement. Eric Berends, Denise Rousseau, Rob Briner and Jeffrey Pfeffer dissect the persistent gap between knowledge and application that hampers both healthcare an...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Ever wonder how we can elevate the management process with a more evidence-based approach? The conversation provides tangible strategies to enhance management teaching at the undergraduate level, with guests sharing their rich insights on the challenges and benefits of teaching evidence-based management to undergraduates. We dive into the importanc...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode continues our discussion about teaching evidence-based management to undergraduates (listen to Part 1 if you haven't already!). We discuss how to ensure that the next generation of managers is not just well-versed with the theories, but also equipped to make evidence-based decisions in the real-world, developing the skills they ne...

Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Evidence-based management is a critical skill for people working in organisations. More and more people are taking courses and starting to practice better decision making by looking at multiple sources of evidence - not just their own experience. The Center for Evidence-Based Management leads the way in teaching, training and practicing best practi...