Kevin W. Lee

Kevin W. Lee is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He is a member of the Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources division and holds an affiliation with the Entrepreneurship & Innovation group. He was also a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School, through the blackbox Lab of the Data, Digital, and Design (D^3) Institute.

Professor Lee's research interests concern the rise of the future of work. A central component of his research agenda of late has been investigating the consequences of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) for work and organizing. He has focused on how these technologies have come to threaten what workers consider to be human about their work, specifically with regard to how workers have variously thought through and navigated the possibility of losing this sense of humanness in their work. To investigate this question, he has drawn on theoretical lenses from across the social sciences, ranging from organization theory to information systems to sociology, and has primarily used qualitative methods like ethnography and interviewing.

Professor Lee received his PhD in Management & Organizations, with a focus on Organization Theory and a concentration in Sociology, from New York University's Stern School of Business. He received his BA from Columbia University. He began his career as a management consultant to some of Wall Street's most prominent financial institutions, witnessing first-hand their disruption by entrepreneurs and technologists at the cutting edge of the digital revolution.