Megan Lawrence

A former head of quantitative consulting for the equity electronic trading group at Merrill Lynch, Megan Lawrence researches how firms select and implement new organizational and management practices.

Awards & Accomplishments

In 2015, Professor Lawrence’s paper “Taking Stock of the Ability to Change: Prior Experience, Competency Traps and Learning-by-Doing” won the Strategic Management Society’s Best Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize. At the Academy of Management Conference in 2016, her paper “How Do Pilots Work? Examining Pilot Use in New Practice Transfer” won Distinguished Student Paper.

Research Interests

Professor Lawrence researches organizational and management practices; she is particularly interested in understanding the antecedents and consequences of differences in firm practice adoption on firm performance.

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Harvard Business School (2010 — 2016)
• B.S.E. Princeton University (2002 — 2006)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management (2016)
• Doctoral Student Harvard Business School (2010 — 2016)
• Associate, Equity Electronic Trading Merrill Lynch (2008 — 2010)
• Analyst, Equity Electronic Trading Merrill Lynch (2006 — 2008)