Lamar Pierce is the Beverly & James Hance Professor of Organization and Strategy at Washington University in St. Louis. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Science—a leading academic journal. Previously he served as Associate Dean for Executive Education and as Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Lamar worked as an industrial engineer at Boeing prior to graduate school and later was Vice-President for Business Services at Wellspring and an advisor for Maritz. He is currently Behavioral Strategy Advisor for Atlas Point and has served as Chief Scientific Advisor at CivicScience since 2008. Lamar holds a PhD from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, as well undergraduate degrees in economics and music from the University of Puget Sound.

Lamar studies how organizations can better align ethics and productivity, focusing on how economic and psychological factors create opportunities to improve the welfare of both people and their employers. His research spans a myriad of industries and settings that include salespeople, manufacturing and service workers, military and police officers, and consumer finance, while employing methods ranging from multimillion-dollar field experiments to machine learning and econometric analysis of corporate personnel and performance data. A four-time cancer survivor, Lamar is currently working on how organizations can more effectively support personal challenges such as mental health, and on clarifying how principles of business and health management can better inform one another.