Sarah Lebovitz

Professor Lebovitz has expertise in information systems and technological transformation. Her research focuses on how professional groups adopt and use new technological tools in their work. She uses in-depth qualitative methods to examine professionals’ process of forming critical judgments while using advanced artificial intelligence tools. Professor Lebovitz joined McIntire in 2020 and teaches the ICE Systems and Strategy course at the undergraduate level.

Professor Lebovitz's work has appeared in high-quality outlets, including Academy of Management Journal; Information Systems Journal; and Sloan Management Review, as well as at national conferences and university research workshops. Before earning her Ph.D., Professor Lebovitz worked as a Forensics Technology Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a Process Analyst at The J. M. Smucker Company, and conducted innovation projects at IBM Research.

Areas of Expertise

• Technological change
• New technology adoption
• Organizational transformation
• Digital innovation

Education

• Ph.D., Business Administration (Information Systems), Stern School of Business, New York University
• B.S., Business Administration (Management Information Systems), Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University

PUBLICATIONS

• Lifshitz-Assaf, H., Lebovitz, S., and Zalmanson, L. In-press. Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it. Academy of Management Journal.
• Lifshitz-Assaf, H., Lebovitz, S., and Zalmanson, L. 2018. The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control. MIT Sloan Management Review, 60 (2), 1-6.
• Annabi, H., and Lebovitz, S. 2018. Improving the Retention of Women in the IT Workforce: An Investigation of Gender Diversity Interventions in the USA. Information Systems Journal.
• Frost, R., Pike, J., Krewatch, L., and Lebovitz, S. 2011. Business Information Systems: Design an App for That. FlatworldKnowledge.
• Frost, R., and Pels (Lebovitz), S. 2010. Increasing MIS Enrollments in the Introductory Course: Teaching Students to Define MIS by Doing It. Issues in Information Systems, 11(2), 48-53.