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Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)

By: Joseph Badaracco, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III and William Wheeler
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:20
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Abstract

A Lieutenant leading a platoon in Iraq must make a complex ethical, military, and leadership decision: whether to risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive and save three Iraqis.

Keywords

Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Management; Problems and Challenges; Iraq

Citation

Badaracco, Joseph, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III, and William Wheeler. "Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-085, January 2011. (Revised June 2012.)

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Joseph L. Badaracco

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