Lamar Pierce
Associate Professor of Organization & Strategy
Area of Expertise:
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
Selected Publications:- "Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment", Organization Science, Issue 2, 286-303, with T. Gubler, I. Larkin, 2016
- "Subprime Governance: Agency Costs in Vertically Integrated Banks and 2008 Mortgage Crisis", Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming, with C. Gartenberg, 2016
- "Motivation Matters: Corporate Scope and Competition in Complementary Product Markets", Strategic Management Journal, Issue 7, 1304-1315, with V. Bennett, 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
- "Unethical Demand and Employee Turnover", Journal of Business Ethics, Issue 4, 853-869, with J. Snyder, 2015
- "Learning from Peers: Knowledge Transfer and Sales Force Productivity Growth", Marketing Science, Issue 4, 463-484, with T. Chan, J. Li, 2014
- "Compensation and Peer Effects in Competing Sales Teams", Management Science, Issue 8, 463-484, with T. Chan, J. Li, 2014
- "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Retirement Planning Predicts Health Improvements", Psychological Science, Issue 9, 1822-1830, with T. Gubler, 2014
- "Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices", Management Science, Issue 8, 1725-1742, with V. Bennett, J. Snyder, M. Toffel, 2013
- "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Regulatory Monitoring", Organization Science, Issue 5, 1558-1584, with M. Toffel, 2013
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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, Strategic Management Journal
- Associate Editor, Management Science
Awards/Honors:- 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 enjoys playing the piano, occasionally making jump shots, and exploring the wilderness at his cabin in North Idaho.
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Lamar Pierce joined the Olin faculty in 2007, after visiting at Carnegie Mellon for two years. Prior to earning his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked at Boeing in Seattle, WA. Pierce's research focuses on economic and psychological factors that impact both productivity and misconduct, and the organizational solutions to jointly address these effects. Pierce teaches Strategy, Management, Business Ethics in the MBA, Undergraduate, and Executive MBA programs at Olin.
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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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