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 has finished? This episode explores those questions through two pieces of research. The first exa...

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 at the much wider evidence movement that has been unfolding across disciplines over the past few d...

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 they are managers making decisions, students learning to apply evidence, or educators supporting ...

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 frameworks makes evidence-based management accessible to busy professionalsProblem i...

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 approaches to teaching evidence-based management - from introducing elements into existing courses to...

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 Critically Appraised Topic (or CAT), it's quite obviously a difficult process to do, let alone to teach. Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management Eric Barends takes us through the process of teaching students how to run a CAT, drawing on many years experience ...

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 management for students of different life stages - discovering how critical thinking becomes a v...

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. Alternatively they may be seeking the research component to supplement and deepen their existing...

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 prove it. These people carry the weight of organizational experience and preconceived notions ...

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 and corporate landscapes. This episode promises an enlightening journey through the complex process...