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About Me Paul R. Lawrence is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard Business School. During his forty-four years on the Harvard faculty, he taught in all the School's programs and served as chairman of the Organizational Behavior area and also of both the MBA and AMP programs. He did undergraduate work in sociology and economics at Albion College and did MBA and doctoral training at Harvard. His research, published in 25 books and numerous articles, has dealt with the human aspects of management. In particular he has studied organizational change, organization design, and the relationship between the structural characteristics of complex organizations and the technical, market and other conditions of their immediate environment. His book, Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration, (written with Professor Jay Lorsch), added "contingency theory" to the vocabulary of students of organizational behavior. In 1983 he co-authored with Davis Dyer Renewing American Industry, that examined historically the organizational arrangements and performance in eight basic fields including steel, hospitals, agriculture, automobiles, telecommunications, etc. He has, with others, made a study of Soviet management practices that was published in 1990 as Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises. In 2002 he published, with his co-author Nitin Nohria, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. This book proposes a four-drive theory of human motivation that is based on the biology of the brain. His current work, Being Human: A Darwinian Theory of Human Behavior, (under review) extends the work in Driven moving toward a unified theory of human behavior
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