Lamar Pierce

Area of Expertise:

Business/Corporate Strategy, Management Strategy, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Organizational Design, Business/Corporate Strategy, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Management Strategy, Organizational Design

Research Interests:

Business strategy and public policy; fraud and corruption; ethics; incentives in organizations

Awards/Honors:

• Reid Award for Teaching Excellence, EMBA Program, 2016
• Olin Award for Research, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
• Donald D. Harrington Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
• Center for Study of Ethics and Human Values Grant, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008

Lamar Pierce joined the Olin faculty in 2007 after earning his PhD at UC Berkeley and working at Boeing. Lamar''s research focuses on economic and psychological factors that impact both productivity and misconduct, and the organizational solutions to jointly address these effects. He teaches Strategic Management in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, as well as Business, Government, and Society to Executive MBA students and Ethics to government executives at the Brookings Institution. Lamar serves as Academic Director of then joint Olin/Brookings Executive Masters of Science in Leadership, and is Associate Editor at Management Science and Strategic Management Journal.