Ding! Ding! Elevated Business Lectures

At the ground floor of the Landing building in downtown Vancouver, the elevator door slid open and unsuspecting office workers walked in. Waiting inside in what’s arguably the world’s smallest mobile classroom – David Hardisty, professor of business marketing for Sauder School of Business. Armed with a white board, markers and affable manner, he launched into the mini-lecture ‘Planning Fallacy 101’ as to how the amused listeners could better plan their workloads. (For example, make a ‘commitment contract’ with a friend: “If I don’t complete this in forty-five minutes, take this five hundred dollars and give it to a political party I hate.”) The 62 floors of up-and-down lectures were part of Sauder’s rewritetherules.ca initiative. Says Hardisty: “It’s all about innovation; the way we teach and what we teach.”