Sergio Giovanetti Lazzarini

Full Professor | Chafi Haddad Chair | Ph.D. in Business Administration - Washington University, St.

Sérgio Lazzarini holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (in the areas of Organization and Strategy) from the John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, and an M.Sc. in Business Administration from FEA/USP. He is a Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper. He was Professor at Ivey Business School, Western University, and a visiting professor at several universities, including Harvard (2010, 2012), University of St. Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), University of Utah (2019), and University of Toronto (2021-22).

He has recently researched the strategy and governance of organizations interested in generating social impact, which involve private impact-oriented companies, public (state-owned) organizations, and public-private collaborations. He is the founder of Insper Metricis, a nucleus of studies in impact measurement and investment.

He published a trilogy of books on public-private relations: Capitalism of Ties (Elsevier, 2011, awarded second place in the 2011 Jabuti Prize; revised edition by Bei Editora, 2018), Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil, and Beyond (Harvard University Press, 2014, with Aldo Musacchio), and The Right Privatization: Why Private Firms in Public Initiatives Need Capable Governments (Cambridge University Press, 2022, translated version winner of the 2024 Jabuti Academic Prize).

Additionally, he has regularly published in various national and international academic journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Public Choice, and Harvard Business Review Latin America, among others.

At Insper, he was Program Director of the Center for Research in Strategy from 2003 to 2006, Program Director of the Business Administration program from 2005 to 2006, Academic Dean of Undergraduate and M.Sc. Programs from 2007 to 2008, Academic Dean of Undergraduate Education in 2009, and Dean of Research and Graduate Education from 2013 to 2015.

He has worked on consulting projects for private, public, and multilateral organizations such as OECD, IDB, and the World Bank. He has been a source for various international media outlets such as The Economist, New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, BBC, and Bloomberg. He was a member of the Executive Committee (2008-2010) and Global Representative for Latin America (2007) of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management; a member of the Board of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (2009-2011); and a track leader of the Strategy Division of ANPAD (2009-2010). He is currently an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review.

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