Teaching Evidence-Based Management to Undergraduates Presentation by Barbara Janssen Academy of Management Annual, Vancouver, 2015

1. Teaching EBP to undergraduates
Barbara Janssen
@barbarajanssen
AOM 8th August 2015

2. Our future finance professionals
 Undergraduates
 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
 University of Applied Sciences
 Future professionals, not academics
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3. Ready to face your manager?
TRUST ME, 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
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4. Evidence-based practice
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5. Dare to think different
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6. Curriculum: EBP mind set
 Critical thinking
 Uncertainty
 Trustworthiness of information
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7. Curriculum: EBP skills
 Basic EBP skills
 Knowing and recognizing biases
 Challenging assumptions
 Asking questions (PICOC)
 Acquiring information
 News and data
 Scientific literature (Google scholar, ABI Inform)
 Advanced EBP skills
 Decision making processes
 Appraisal of scientific evidence (validity and generalizability)
 Search strategies scientific databases
 Aggregating information from different sources into a
conclusion (advise)
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8. Curriculum: EBP practice
 Recognizing biases and assumptions
 Analysing cases like Enron
 Desk research
 Thesis
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9. Curriculum: EBP practice example
 Halo effect
 Describe a situation in which your behaviour or decision was
influenced by the Halo effect
 What were the consequences?
 How could you have prevented your opinion was influenced
by the halo effect?
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10. Challenges
 Not academics
 Students are trained to reproduce knowledge
 Educational context
 Authority bias
 Overconfidence
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