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This paper reports on an analysis of management learning approaches offered through the ARTEM alliance, which brings together students from three different schools of Art, Business, and Engineering. In this context, business students have to select three workshops out of about twenty. This selection provides the opportunity to collect data on the behavior of almost one thousand business students. The data collected from 2002 to 2006 was correlated with other data obtained using the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. Two clearly opposed approaches, art versus business, based on the left-right brain, were identified. No significant correlations were found between the different disciplinary approaches and the so-called “emotional” brain (limbic). On the other hand, the engineering students’ approach does not seem to be correlated to their thinking style. A better understanding of the engineering students’ approach likely requires a methodology based on situational rather than dispositional elements.