Marianne W. Lewis
Management professor and business dean
Marianne W. Lewis is a management scholar and dean of the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. She studies how organizations handle competing demands.
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About Marianne W. Lewis
Marianne W. Lewis is an American academic and professor of management. She has been dean of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati since 2019. Before that, she was dean of Cass Business School in London (now Bayes Business School), and she has also been a Fulbright scholar. Her research on paradox theory looks at how organizations can live with tensions that persist and are tied together, instead of choosing one side. Her work spans topics such as product development, organizational change, governance and careers. Both/And Thinking is one of her books. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Operations Management. She holds an MBA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Kentucky.