Lamar Pierce is the Beverly & James Hance Professor of Strategy at Washington University in St. Louis and Chief Science Officer at Agency 150, an AI-native advisory platform. He is also Editor-in-Chief at Organization Science, one of the leading management journals in the world. Lamar holds a Ph.D. in Business from University of California, Berkeley, as well undergraduate degrees in economics and music from the University of Puget Sound. He is a past Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and is the founding scientific advisor for CivicScience and Atlas Point. He has published 44 peer-reviewed papers in the top journals in Strategy, Economics, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Finance, Marketing, and Operations.
Lamar studies how organizations can better align productivity, technology, and ethics through organizational design. His research spans a myriad of industries and settings that include salespeople, manufacturing and service workers, military and police officers, scientists, and consumer finance, while employing methods ranging from multimillion-dollar field experiments to econometric models with corporate personnel and performance data. A five-time cancer survivor, Lamar also studies how organizations can more effectively support personal challenges such as mental health and the relationship between employee performance and health.
