Evidence-Based Management

About Evidence-Based Management

This podcast is a study companion to the course on Evidence-Based Management from the Center for Evidence Based Management and Carnegie Mellon University. Hosted by CEBMa Fellow and 20 year change management veteran Karen Plum, each episode is dedicated to exploring some of the challenges, opportunities, issues, frustrations and lightbulb moments associated with learning to be more evidenced-based in organisational decision making.

Publisher

Center for Evidence-Based Management

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Oct 2021

Latest episode

10 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Mar 2026

   You’re not alone: the story of the evidence movement

   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 decades. From medicine and social policy to policin...

2. 

   28 Jan 2026

   Working with uncertainty: A conversation on evidence-based management

   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 that learning. The discussion ranges across resear...

3. 

   19 Aug 2025

   Ask the experts

   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 identification is the most critical and often overlooked st...

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