Tiona W. Zuzul

Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Making Difficult Decisions and contributes to various executive education programs. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders’ cognition and communication shape the decisions and behaviors that drive organizational outcomes. In 2024, she was recognized as one of Poets & Quants 40 Best Under 40 Business School Professors. In 2022, she was named a Radar Thinker by Thinkers50, the global ranking of management experts.

Professor Zuzul's work has been published in leading journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, and has earned awards from the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society (including its inagural Research Methods award).

Before joining HBS, Professor Zuzul was an Assistant Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Washington, where she received both the MBA Professor of the Quarter and PhD Faculty Mentor awards. Prior to her academic career, she worked in consulting. 

Professor Zuzul holds a doctorate in Strategy from Harvard Business School, MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics, and AB with Honors from Harvard College. She serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal.