Evidence-Based Management

Jim Manzi Chief Executive Officer Applied Predictive Technologies (APT)   The retail channel is full of ideas to improve profits, and many of them are about spending money to make money. From building new stores to remodeling existing ones, from…

Andrew V. Abela, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Marketing Dept. of Business & Economics The Catholic University of America   It’s ironic: practicing Evidence-Based Management often involves presenting evidence, and yet the way we present that evidence frequently itself violates other…

Tony Kovner Professor of Health Policy & Management, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University   Author of the book “The Practice of Evidence-Based Management,” with Richard D’Aquila and David Fine, published in 2008 by Health Administration…

Christpher Woock, Research Associate John Gibbons, Sr. Research Advisor Management Excellence The Conference Board   In today’s knowledge economy human capital is no longer a means of competitiveness – it’s now the means of competitiveness. And now, ironically, after years of struggling…

Ingrid Nembhard, Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health Anita Tucker, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School Richard Bohmer, MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Technology and Operations (TOM), Harvard…

John W. Boudreau Professor, Management and Organization; Research Director, Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business, USC     Most organizations today are awash in evidence about talent, yet lack the logic to use those numbers for vital strategic…

Frank Domurad Vice-President The Carey Group, Inc.     Every day we use our computers to perform a myriad of valuable functions from word processing to spread sheets to the gathering of information on the worldwide web. What we see…

Paul Kearns Director, PWL and author of ‘The Value Motive’ www.paulkearns.co.uk   Five Principles of EBM – #1  Face the hard facts, and build a culture in which people are encouraged to tell the truth, even if it is unpleasant…

  Joseph C. Mello joe.mello@davita.com Chief Operating Officer, DaVita Inc.   Over the past number of months I have been in a quandary about something that I would love your opinions about. That is, “the myth of the mean”. I’ve…

  Phil Rosenzweig Professor at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland     Evidence-based management can be a powerful tool—but only if we’re clear about what constitutes valid evidence. Unless we can distinguish “hard facts” from questionable data, we may not get…