Bio

Horacio E. Rousseau is the Mary Tilly Bessemer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Herbert Wertheim College of Business at Florida State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from IESE Business School.

His research sits at the intersection of behavioral strategy and sustainable development, and it begins from a deceptively simple question: why do some organizations learn and adapt while others fall behind, even when they face the same information and similar environments? Growing up in Argentina — where shifting institutions visibly shaped the fortunes of firms and communities — gave that question an early, personal urgency, and a lasting conviction that context matters as much as strategy.

Building on it, his work examines how organizations respond to grand challenges such as inequality, sustainable development, and refugee resettlement. His current projects form a program on stewardship in the care economy, examining how governance and management shape the quality of care across U.S. hospitals and nursing homes. This research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, and the Journal of Business Ethics, and has been recognized with the Award for Responsible Research in Management.

At Florida State, Dr. Rousseau teaches strategic management, business and society, and organization theory from the undergraduate to the doctoral level, and he advises doctoral students working on strategy, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. His teaching emphasizes critical engagement with research — and its application to problems organizations actually face.

Beyond the university, he is a devoted listener of classical music and a reader of international literature.