Lamar Pierce
Professor of Organization & Strategy
Area of Expertise:
Business/Corporate Strategy, Management Strategy, Motivation, Operations & Manufacturing Management, Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations, Organizational Design, Organizational Strategy
Research Interests:
Business strategy and public policy; fraud and corruption; ethics; incentives in organizations
Selected Publications:
- "Pay-for-Performance and Employee Mental Health: Large Sample Evidence Using Employee Prescription Drug Usage", Academy of Management Discoveries, Issue 1, with M. Dahl, 2020
- "Peer Bargaining and Productivity in Teams: Gender and the Inequitable Division of Pay", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, with L. Wang, D. Zhang
- "Doing Well by Making Well: The Impact of Corporate Wellness Programs on Employee Productivity", Management Science, Issue 11, 4967-4987, with T. Gubler, I. Larkin, 2018
- "The Influence of Peers in Worker Misconduct: Evidence from Restaurant Theft", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, with T. Chan, Y. Chen, D. Snow
- "The Deep Historical Roots of Organization and Strategy: Traumatic Shocks, Culture, and Institutions", Organization Science, Issue 4, 702-721, with L. Kluppel, J. Snyder, 2018
- "The Historical Slave Trade and Firm Access to Finance in Africa", Review of Financial Studies, Issue 1, 142-174, with J. Snyder, 2018
- "Subprime Governance: Agency Costs in Vertically Integrated Banks and 2008 Mortgage Crisis", Strategic Management Journal, Issue 2, 300-321, with C. Gartenberg, 2017
- "Motivation Matters: Corporate Scope and Competition in Complementary Product Markets", Strategic Management Journal, Issue 7, 1304-1315, with V. Bennett, 2016
- "Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment", Organization Science, Issue 2, 286-303, with T. Gubler, I. Larkin, 2016
- "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Productivity", Management Science, Issue 10, 2299-2319, with D. Snow, A. McAfee, 2015
Academic/Professional Activities:
- Reviewer, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, JEP General, PSPB, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change and the Journal of Cultural Economics
- Member, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and the American Economic Association
- Editorial Review Board Member, OBHDP
- Editor, Journal Editor, Management Science
- Editor, Journal Editor, Strategic Management Journal
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
Personal Interests:
Professor Pierce lives in St. Louis with his wife and son. He is a native of the Pacific Northwest.
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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 is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings.
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Email: pierce@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-7321
PhD 2005, University of California, Berkeley
MS 2001, University of California, Berkeley
BA 1997, University of Puget Sound
BS 1997, University of Puget Sound
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