Dr. Lee Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She is a National Geographic Fellow for the Making the Case for Nature program. In addition, she is currently a faculty affiliate at the following research centers: Center for Positive Organizations, Sanger Leadership Center, and Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, and STAR (Sustainability, Transparency, Accountability Research) Lab at Harvard University. Prior to joining Ross, she was a 2014-2015 Lab Fellow in Institutional Corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and 2013-2014 Research Fellow in Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. 

Dr. Lee Cunnignham studies the psychology of narratives, lay theories, and behavioral ethics. Her research has been published in a number of top scientific journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Applied Psychology. 

She teaches BBA, MBA, and executive education courses on organizational behavior, global leadership and teams, and negotiation, and has recently been named one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets and Quants in 2020.