ANU College of Business and Economics

JOIN THE "REVOLUTION" IN BUSINESS EDUCATION

For more than 100 years, business schools around the world have been teaching with some variant of the case method. This approach focuses on teaching students to identify patterns in past problems that can be applied to future challenges. This made sense in simpler, more certain times. But what if the problems of the future bear no resemblance to the problems of the past?

Director of the ANU Research School of Management, Professor Byron Keating, contends that it is not enough to give students the knowledge to solve today's problems. He asserts that "we need to give the skills to respond to tomorrow's challenges... whatever they look like."

Working with the International Center for Evidence-Based Management in the Netherlands, the ANU Research School of Management launches the world’s first suite of evidence-based graduate business programs in 2017.

The business environment is changing, and Professor Keating argues that the way we educate our future business leaders needs to respond. “We need to train students to extract insight from the data and information that surrounds them, and then apply this insight to have a positive impact on the world around them.”