Organizational and Management Practices, Firm Knowledge and Capabilities, Management of New Ventures, and Multi-unit Organizations
Strategy and Business Economics
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.
• Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Dean’s Faculty Fellow, 2023-2025
• Poets & Quants "Best 40-Under-40 Professors", 2022
• Strategic Management Society Best Video Abstract Winner, 2022
• Vanderbilt Strong Grant Winner, 2020
• Provost Research Studio Grant Winner, 2017
• Academy of Management Distinguished Student Paper Award Winner, 2015
• Strategic Management Society Best PhD Paper Winner, 2015
Professor Lawrence publishes in top strategy journals, including solo-authored and co-authored works in Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science.
Professor Lawrence teaches strategic management courses in the MBA and Specialized Masters programs.
• Organizational and Management Practices
• Firm Knowledge and Capabilities
• Management of New Ventures
• Multi-unit Organizations
D.B.A., Strategy, Harvard Business School, 2016
B.S.E., Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2006