Lawrence P. Carr, Ph.D.
Dr. Carr is a Professor of Management Accounting at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. He teaches in the Graduate School of Business and the School of Executive Education. His courses include Management Planning and Control, Strategic Cost Systems and Managing and Measuring Performance. He has served as the Dean of the Graduate School, Curriculum Coordinator for the first year MBA program, and has received the Kennedy Award (student) for teaching excellence and the Dean’s award for teaching. He is a management consultant, has published over thirty articles, fifteen teaching cases, and is a co-author of Total Quality Management: A Cross-Functional Perspective, Guide to Cost Management and Assessing the Strategic Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Carr spent eighteen years in industry. For eight years he was a Division Controller and Vice President for Kollmorgen Corporation, a publicly held diversified electronics company. As President and CEO of OSRAM, Corp., the U.S. and Canadian subsidiary of OSRAM GmbH, part of Siemens, he developed and managed the dramatic growth (an average of 31% per year) of this lighting company for eight years. He led the corporation as it established distribution systems and centers, developed a manufacturing facility in the U.S., and introduced new product lines to the market.

Dr. Carr earned a BA in Psychology from Marist College, an MA in Industrial Administration, an MBA and a Ph.D. from Union College. His consulting clients include Accenture, GE, IBM, Siemens, Pitney-Bowes, Xerox, and others. He works in the areas of management control systems, performance measurement and strategic cost systems. His areas of research include the Cost of Quality, Multinational Transfer Pricing and Activity Based Management and Performance Measurement. He has been published in Management Accounting, Journal of Cost Management, Strategic Performance Measurement, International Journal of Strategic Cost Management and Sloan Management Review.
 
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