Michaela June Kerrissey
Associate Professor of Management
Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Health Policy and Management
Other Positions
Faculty Director
Office of External Education, Harvard Medical School
Biography
Michaela Kerrissey, PhD, MS, is an assistant professor of management on the faculty at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She identifies how healthcare organizations innovate, improve, and integrate services, specifically how teams solve problems that cross organizational boundaries. Her research has been published in leading academic journals in both management and healthcare, such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Health Affairs. She has received Best Paper awards from the Academy of Management and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research and was listed in 2023 on Thinkers50 Radar, a global ranking of top management thinkers.
Dr. Kerrissey designed the Management Science for a New Era course at the School of Public Health. She also teaches in multiple executive programs at Harvard’s business and medical schools and received the Bok Center award for excellence in teaching.
Dr. Kerrissey holds a BA from Duke University, an MS from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD from Harvard University. She was awarded the Robertson Scholarship at Duke, a Hart Leaders Fellowship, and a Reynolds Fellowship at Harvard. Prior to her academic engagement, she was a consulting team leader at The Bridgespan Group, which was launched by Bain & Company.
Education and Training
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BA,
Duke University -
MS,
Harvard School of Public Health -
PhD,
Harvard Business School
Awards and Honors
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Thinkers50 Radar, 2023
Thinkers50 -
40 Under 40 Boston Congress of Public Health, 2022
Boston Congress of Public Health -
Best Paper Proceedings Academy of Management, 2021
Academy of Management - Research to Practice Award Runner Up American Public Health Association, 2019
- Hackman Award Finalist INGRoup, 2019
- Best Paper Academy of Management, 2019
- Most Outstanding Dissertation EFMG, 2018
- Best Conference Paper INGRoup, 2017
- Derek Book Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016
- Best Paper Proceedings Academy of Management, 2016
- Best of Conference Award International Integrated Care Conference, 2016
- Vogelheim Hansen Fellowship, 2015
- Harvard Business School Doctoral Fellowship, 2013 - 2018
- Case Fellowship, 2009
- Reynolds Foundation Fellowship, 2008 - 2010
- Hart Leadership Fellowship, 2005 - 2006
- Robertson Scholarship, 2001 - 2005
