Lamar Pierce

Assistant Professor of Strategy

Areas of Expertise:

Behavioral Science; Business Policy and Strategy; Economics - Organizational Economics; Management Strategy; Organizational Behavior

Research interests:

Business strategy and public policy; fraud and corruption; ethics; incentives in organizations; consumer finance; automotive industry

Selected Publications:

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"The Abundance Effect: Unethical Behavior in the Presence of Wealth," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Forthcoming
"Dishonesty in the Name of Equity," Psychological Science, Forthcoming
"Big Losses in Ecosystem Niches: How Core Firm Decisions Drive Complementary Product Shakeout," Strategic Management Journal, Issue 30 (3), 323-347, 2009
"Ethical Spillovers in Firms: Evidence from Vehicle Emissions Testing," Management Science, Issue 54 (11), 1891-1903, with J. Snyder, 2008
"Programmatic Risk-Taking by American Opera Companies," Journal of Cultural Economics, Issue 24(1), 45-63, February 2000
"Dynamic Capabilities, Competence, and the Behavioral Theory of the Firm,"The Economics of Change, Choice and Structure: Essays in the Memory of Richard M. Cyert, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ldt., with C. Boerner, J. March, and D. Teece, 2002
"Robin Hood Under the Hood: Wealth-Based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help," Organization Science, with F. Gino, 2009

Academic/professional activities:

Member: Academy of Management, American Economic Association
Reviewer: Organization Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Cultural Economics

Awards/honors:

Center for Study of Ethics and Human Values Grant, 2008
Intel Robert Noyce Fellow, 2003-2004
Haas Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999-2000
UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 1999-2000
Phi Beta Kappa, 1996

Personal interests:

Professor Pierce lives in St. Louis. He enjoys playing the piano, occasionally making jumpshots, and exploring the wilderness at his cabin in North Idaho.

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 two areas: First, he studies strategy through illegality-how firms and individuals use fraud and corruption for personal and financial gain. Second, he studies the competitive effects of vertical integration and strategic pricing in the automotive industry. Pierce currently teaches undergraduate Management at Olin, and has also taught MBA Strategy and Management of Technology at Carnegie Mellon.

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Email: pierce@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-5205

Ph.D (Business) 2005, University of California, Berkeley
M.S. (Business) 2001, University of California, Berkeley
B.S. (Economics)(with honors) 1997, University of Puget Sound
B.A. (Music) (magna cum laude) 1997, University of Puget Sound