Megan Lawrence

Biography

Professor Lawrence is a strategy scholar whose research examines the antecedents and consequences of organizational adaptation. Her research focuses on the evolution of knowledge and capabilities and the subsequent impact on organizational performance. Professor Lawrence often works with companies in her research and thus her academic work spans a breadth of contexts from Fortune 500 companies to startups hiring their first managers. 

Prior to academia, Professor Lawrence was the Head of Quantitative Consulting for the Equity Electronic Trading group at Merrill Lynch. She credits much of her interest in understanding and improving management and organizations to her work establishing the quantitative consulting practice and working on a trading desk through the Financial Crisis in 2008-09.

Education

D.B.A., Strategy, Harvard Business School, 2016

B.S.E., Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2006