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# Tatiana Sandino

**Profile.** Tatiana Sandino is the **Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School**. She has researched decision-making strategies for **over two decades** and is the author of *Structured Empowerment: How to Achieve Growth While Promoting Agility* (Wiley, **April 2026**).

**Role in this source.** Sole author and voice of the HBR article *"How Fast-Growing Companies Can Make Better Decisions"* (May 2026), which distills the central argument of her book. She is the only speaker/cited voice in this source.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Originates the central concept [[concept-structured-empowerment]] and its [[framework-structured-empowerment-implementation|implementation framework]] and [[framework-five-year-stress-test|Five-Year Stress Test]].
- Author of all four quotes: [[quote-loss-of-control]], [[quote-bermuda-triangle]], [[quote-genuine-outcome-metrics]], [[quote-the-real-question]].
- Advances all five claims: [[claim-decision-making-fractures]], [[claim-pure-decentralization-risks]], [[claim-top-down-centralization-fails]], [[claim-choice-architecture-limits]], [[claim-boundaries-insufficient]].
- Sources the contrarian insights [[contrarian-boundaries-are-not-empowerment]] and [[contrarian-accountability-ignores-choices]].

> **Enrichment.** Her HBS faculty page and the book's HBS Publishing / Wiley page are the canonical references for her role and the Structured Empowerment book.