What Jamie Beaton teaches his students about business

Jamie Beaton, Fangzhou Jiang and Anna Mowbray at Beaton’s last class for the year. (Image: BusinessDesk)

Thu, 25 Sep 2025

Jamie Beaton’s collaboration with the University of Auckland wrapped up for the semester recently, and BusinessDesk was there for the final class. Dileepa Fonseka reports on what it was like.It is almost unheard of to visit a university classroom these days and not see any laptops or iPads. The age of artificial intelligence (AI) might be forcing some universities to go back to handwritten exams, but it is still commonplace to see devices in university classrooms. Yet on a Wednesday night in late August at the University of Auck...

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