Professor Emeritus

After a twenty-three year academic career Dr. Lawrence retired from the University of Montana. Following his retirement, the Montana Board of Regents recognized his outstanding contributions to the university, his academic discipline and the state of Montana by honoring him with Emeritus status. In addition to being a Full Professor, he also served as Department Chair for the Management Information Systems Department, which is the largest academic unit within the College of Business. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and completed a program at the Harvard Business School that is designed to improve the effectiveness of corporate boards.

While teaching at the London School of Economics, he was awarded the highest teaching award that can be bestowed upon Ph.D. candidates for demonstrated excellence in the classroom. During his career at the University of Montana, Dr. Lawrence's undergraduate and graduate teaching evaluations were consistently among the highest in the College of Business. He received the outstanding professor award an unprecedented ten times during his career. In addition to the aforementioned awards, he was honored by the University of Montana's Division of Student Affairs for the support and encouragement he provided to the university’s students through the years. Dr. Lawrence’s academic service included membership on the Admissions and Curriculum Committees for the MBA and Master's of Accountancy programs. He was also elected by his colleagues to serve multiple terms in the Faculty Senate at the University of Montana..

His academic work was published in some of the leading international journals in the field of Management Information Systems including the European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems Education, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Education Journal and the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. During his career he was an active reviewer for numerous academic journals and conferences. He also served as co-editor for teaching cases for ISEDJ.