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If students are customers, why don’t they do their research?

Posted February 14, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

A discussion I have each semester with new students is whether they consider themselves to be customers or not. The distinction I’m trying to get them to grapple with is that as students, they are themselves a key determinant of how good the “product” ends up being. In other words, they cannot just place their [...]

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Teaching EBMgt: developing better managers, or educating critical thinkers?

Posted February 9, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

On the Facebook group Evidence-Based Management, Laura Guerrero asks: In terms of the big picture, I wonder what people think in terms of why we ought to teach using EBMgt. I hear people talk about studies and research. The way they talk about these suggests to me that they do not understand what they are [...]

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