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Executive Decision

Welcome to Executive Decision, the podcast that reviews some of the most significant decisions in history: why they happened; how they happened, and what they tell us about the process of decision making.

Apr 10, 2021

What happens when a strong person makes a weak decision and a weak person makes a strong one? In part two of our episode on FDR and the internment of the Japanese in WWII, we look at the anti-Japanese hysteria that seized the West Coast in the wake of Pearl Harbor and the bureaucratic infighting that resulted in...


Apr 2, 2021

This is the story of one of the gravest injustices in American history, where over 120,000 people of Japanese descent were uprooted from their homes and placed into concentration camps without due process and in violation of their civil rights. Most lost everything; after the Second World World ended, they returned to...