Dr. Lisa Tang is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy at the National University of Singapore. Her research examines corporate strategy, particularly mergers and acquisitions, as a capability that firms build and a portfolio of choices they deploy in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage. Across her published and ongoing work, she studies both the drivers of firms' acquisition capabilities and their consequences for organizations. In doing so, she opens the black box of corporate strategy to the people behind these decisions—the corporate development executives who lead deals, the top management teams acquirers retain or replace, and the employees whose careers are reshaped long after a deal closes.
Her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and recognized with awards from both the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Strategic Management Society (SMS), including the AOM Best Paper Proceedings, the SMS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize (Honorable Mention), Best Research Methods Paper Prize, Best PhD Paper Prize, and Best Corporate Strategy IG Paper Prize. She is also an award-winning teacher and a recipient of the 2025 NUS Business School Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Tang holds a PhD in Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with honors in Philosophy from Harvard College, where she received the Hoopes Prize for her undergraduate thesis. Before joining academia, she worked as an M&A investment banker in Hong Kong and London.
Dr. Tang received her PhD in Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where her was a Strategy Research Foundation Dissertation Scholar. She received her Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Philosophy from Harvard College. Her undergraduate thesis won the Harvard Hoopes Prize, which is considered to be “one of the highest academic commendations the University gives to undergraduates.” Prior to academia, she worked as an M&A investment banker in Morgan Stanley’s Hong Kong and London offices.