Paul R. Lawrence
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Education
Albion College, A.B. 1943
Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1947
Harvard Business School, D.C.S., 1950
Special Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa; Organizational Development Council Annual Book Award; Academy of Management Award for Best Management Book of the Year; American College of Hospital Administrators Book Award; Fellow of Academy of Management; Fellow of International Academy of Management; Distinguished Service Award of the Harvard Business School; HBS Chair named in PRL honor.
Professional Positions
Harvard University
Instructor, 1947-1950
Assistant Professor, 1950-1956
Associate Professor, 1956-1960
Professor, 1960-1967
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior 1967-1991
President’s Scientific Advisory Council, Panel on Government Laboratories, 1969.
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973.
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984.
Director, Millipore Corporation, 1975- 1993.
Director, Hollingsworth and Vose Corporation, 1991- 1995.
Consulting Activities
Consulted with a wide variety of business and governmental organizations, primarily on issues of organization planning, design, and change.
Memberships
Fellow of the Academy of Management
Fellow of the International Academy of Management
American Sociological Association
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Publications
Books:
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, J-B Warren Bennis Series, 2010.
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, with Nitin Nohria, Jossey-Bass, 2002.
Perspectives on Socio-Economics with Amitai Etzioni (eds.), Sharpe, 1991.
Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and US Enterprises, with Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, Igor Faminsky, Eugene Brakov, Sheila Puffer, Elise Walton, Alexander Naumov, Vitale Ozira, HBS Press, 1990.
HRM: Trends and Challenges, with Richard Walton, (eds.), HBS Press, 1985.
Human Resource Management: A General Managers Perspective, with Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Quinn Mills, and Richard Walton, NY: Free Press, 1985.
Managing Human Assets, with Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Quinn Mills, and Richard Walton. NY: Free Press, 1984.
Renewing American Industry: Organizing for Efficiency and Innovation, with Davis Dyer, NY: Free Press, 1983.
Managing Large Research and Development Programs: Bell Laboratories and NIH, with Henry Lane and Rodney Beddows, NY: SUNY Press,1981.
Matrix, with Stanley Davis, Reading: Addison Wesley, 1977.
Mayors in Action: Five Approaches to Urban Governance, with John Kotter, John Wiley and Sons, 1974.
Managing Group and Intergroup Relations, with Jay Lorsch, Richard D. Irwin, 1972.
Organization Planning: Cases and Concepts, with Jay Lorsch, Richard D. Irwin, 1972.
Motivation and Control in Organizations, with Gene Dalton, Richard D. Irwin, 1970.
Organizational Structure and Design, with Gene Dalton and Jay Lorsch, Richard D. Irwin, 1970.
Organizational Change and Development, with Gene Dalton and Larry Greiner, Richard D. Irwin, 1970.
Studies in Organizational Design, with Jay Lorsch (eds.), Richard D. Irwin, 1970.
Developing Organizations: Diagnosis and Action, with Jay Lorsch, Addison Wesley, 1969.
Behavioral Science Concepts in Case Analysis, with Renato Tagiuri, Rosalind Barnett, and Dexter Dunphy, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1968.
Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration, with Jay Lorsch, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1967, Reprinted, Richard D. Irwin, 1969, Reprinted, HBS Press, 1987.
Industrial Jobs and the Worker: An Investigation of Responses to Task Attributes, with Arthur Turner, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1965.
Organizational Behavior and Administration: Cases, Concepts, and Research Findings, with Joseph Bailey, Robert Katz, John Seiler, Charles Orth, James Clark, Louis Barnes, and Arthur Turner, Richard D. Irwin, 1961; Revised 1965; 3rd Revision with Jay Lorsch and Louis Barnes 1976.
High Level Administration in a Large Organization: A Case Study of the Pentagon, with John Glover, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1960.
The Changing of Organizational Behavior Patterns, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1958; Reprinted, Transaction, 1991.
Administering Changes, with Harriet Ronken, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1952.
Management Behavior and Foreman Attitude, with Donald Booz and David Ulrich, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1950.
Selected Articles:
“Institutionalizing Wisdom in Organizations” in Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom, E. Kessler and J. Bailey, (Eds.), 2007
“The Biological Basis of Morality“, Business, Science and Ethics, Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane, (eds.), The Society for Business Ethics, 2004.
“Joint Ventures in Russia: Put the Locals in Charge”, with Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb., 1993.
“The Contingency Approach to Organizational Design” in Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Robert Golembiewski, (ed.), New York, N.Y., Marcel Dekker, 1993.
“The Challenge of Problem-Oriented Research”, Journal of Management Inquiry, June, 1992.
“What We Don’t Know About Soviet Management”, with Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec., 1990.
“Beyond Vertical Integration – The Rise of the Value-Adding Partnership”, with Russell Johnston, Harvard Business Review, 1988.
“Competition: A Renewed Focus for Industrial Policy,” in Strategy and Organizations for Industrial Innovation and Renewal, David Teece, (ed.), Cambridge MA; Ballinger, 1987.
“Historical Development of Organizational Behavior,” in The Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Jay Lorsch, (ed.), Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1987.
“The Harvard Organization and Environment Research Program”, in Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior, Andrew Van de Ven and William Joyce, (eds.), New York, N.Y., Wiley, 1981.
“Three Dilemmas of Academic Medical Centers”, with Marvin Weisbord and Martin Charns, The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 14, Number 3, 1978.
“Why do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?”, with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1978.
“Problems of Matrix Organizations,” with Stanley Davis, Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1978.
Chapter 2, “Individual Differences in the World of Work,” in Man and Work in Society, Cass and Zimmer (eds.), Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1975.
“How to Deal with Resistance to Change,” Harvard Business Review, HBR Classic, January-February 1969.
“Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations,” with Jay Lorsch, Administrative Science Quarterly, June 1967.
“New Management Job: The Role of the Integrator,” with Jay Lorsch, Harvard Business Review, November-December, 1967.
“Organizing for Product Innovation,” with Jay Lorsch, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1965.