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Lawrence S. Zacharias

Associate Professor

Telephone: 413-545-5683
Email: chair@mgmt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 348
Web Site: intra.som.umass.edu/zacharias
Syllabus: MGT 365, SOM 491K

M. Phil, Columbia University, 1974
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1973
M.A., Columbia University, 1970
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1969

Selected publications:

With Marc Linder, Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation
of Modern Brooklyn,
University of Iowa Press, 1999.

With A. Kaufman and M. Karson, Managers vs. Owners: The Struggle for Corporate
Control in American Democracy,
Oxford University Press, 1995.

Awards:

Theodore Saloutos memorial award for best book on American agricultural
history, 1999.
Fulbright Award for study in Germany, 1992.
Langdell fellow, Harvard Law School, 1981-82.
American Bar Foundation and Littleton-Griswold fund awards, 1981.

Photo: Lawrence S. Zacharias - Associate Professor

Research interests:

History of business, law and technology
Organization theory
Corporate governance


Teaching interests:

History of business, culture and film
Public policy and economic regulation
Organization theory