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Harry is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Management and Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He studies the organizational design and governance at entrepreneurial ventures during their founding and growth stages. By conducting network and institutional analyses on the formal and informal structures of organizations, he seeks to understand the creation, diffusion, and application of knowledge about "organizational design" both within and across organizations. He is particularly interested in the cultural-normative aspects of such knowledge as it becomes collectively shared and institutionalized.

In his dissertation, Harry focuses on the role of middle managers as organizational designers. He pays closer attention to the decentralization of organizational design and governance tasks to the unit level, such that middle managers play pivotal roles in collectively designing and implementing organizational control and coordination mechanisms (i.e. formal hierarchy, informal interactive order, routinization, etc.). Through collaboration with the people analytics departments in two large, prominent technology companies, Harry applies mixed methods on the employee information and communicative network data to unveil the black box of collective construction of formal and informal structures within organizations. He seeks to draw causal inferences on how these structuration dynamics affect such outcomes as organizational growth, organizational resilience, and employee turnover.

Harry is also intrigued by another increasingly important phenomenon in organizational design - institutional pluralism and social entrepreneurship. He works on a project that seeks to understand the antecedents and implications of organizational hybridity in the context of China's emerging non-profit sector. He also has a working paper on how the embeddedness in institutionally pluralistic knowledge affects cultural entrepreneurs' conceptualization of hybrid ventures.

Harry will be on the academic job market in Fall 2022.