Megan Lawrence
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise
Management and organizational practices, organizational learning, firm adaptation
Subject Areas
Strategy and Business Economics
Biography
Biography
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. Professor Lawrence was named a Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor by Poets & Quants in 2022.
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
D.B.A., Strategy, Harvard Business School, 2016
B.S.E., Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2006