Week 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Management (6.24.2014)

Instructor Location: Rome, Italy
 
Learning Objectives

• Explain principles of evidence-based management
• Explain the significance of evidence-based management in understanding Organizational Behavior
  

Virtual Course Introduction (1 hour on 6.24.2014)

• Meet and greet 
• Course overview  
• Team formation and project discussion
• Team site set-up
• Sign up for important newsletters - you will use these sources for your individual assignments
  
  •         HBR Blog Network
  •         Entrepreneur.com
  •         CIO.com
  •         Inc.com 

EIA (4 hours each week)

• Virtual Course Introduction (1 hour)
• Weekly Discussion (via VoiceThread) (1 hour) 
• Two comments on peer blogs (30 min)
• Southwest closer to assigned seating. USA Today, June 21, 2006 
• Thurm, Scott. Now, It’s Business By Data, but Numbers Still Can’t Tell Future. Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2003
• Trust Your Evidence, Not Your Instincts 
• What More Evidence Do You Need  
• Hard Facts: Author Interview: Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton  (10 min)
• Intuit's Scott Cook: The Boss Is No Longer The Caesar (5 min)

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Assignments Due Before Next Week  Begins (8 hours of studies outside classroom) 

• Readings: 

1. Pfeffer & Sutton Chapter 1
2. Pfeffer and Sutton Chapter 2 
3. Pfeffer and Sutton Harvard Business Review article
4. How to evaluate psychological sciences for organizations

• Individual Assignment 1 (You have two weeks, not one week, to complete two comments on others' individual blogs. No need to comment on other team sites for week 1)
  
• Individual Quiz 1 in Moodle
• Team Assignment 1: Team Formation (Access and submit in Moodle)

Additional Resources: Feel free to use these resources to enhance your case analyses, discussion, discussions, or team assignments.

Center for Evidence-Based Management

Jill Lepore of the New Yorker wrote an outstanding critique of Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation using principles of Evidence-Based Management

So where is your evidence?  The Sunday TImes, March 21, 2010

Carter Racing: A case study for evidence-based management discussions 

There are two sides to every coin. Take a look at arguments and research supporting the value of instincts: Instinct can Beat Analytical Thinking