The Harvard Business School case Mount Everest 1996 narrates the events of May 11, 1996, when 8 people-including the two expedition leaders. The survivors and many analysts have tried to decipher what went wrong that day, find an underlying cause, and learn from the event.
1. Describe the role of the perception biases, shortcuts, and errors that the climbers as individuals and as a group made during the 1996 expedition to Mount Everest (describe at least 5).How did these biases, shortcuts, and errors contribute to the tragedy?
2.- What can we learn from this case about (a) personality, (b) conflict, and (c) decision making? Discuss a major lesson in each one of these themes and try to apply it to a business organization.
3- Describe the leadership of Scott Fisher and Rob Hall in light of theory.
4.- Describe the group and team dynamics present in the climbing teams. What lessons applicable to business organizations can be drawn from this experience.
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