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Thomas S.
Robertson
to Become
Wharton Dean
Former Wharton marketing
professor Thomas S.
Robertson returns August
1 to become the 13th Dean
of the Wharton School.
Robertson is executive faculty
director of the Institute
for Developing Nations
at Emory University and
former dean of Emory’s
Goizueta Business School.
Robertson, the Asa
Griggs Candler Professor
of Marketing at Goizueta,
is an expert in marketing
strategy and innovation
with extensive international
experience in higher
education and the business
community. As dean
of Goizueta from 1998 to
2004, he was widely credited
with building it into one
of the strongest schools at
Emory, positioning it as a
leading international business
school. Under his leadership,
the school increased
the size of its faculty 73
percent, doubled revenues,
nearly doubled the school’s
endowment, developed
new international alliances,
spurred major growth in executive-education programs,
added a major new building,
and launched a new
PhD program.
Subsequently, as chair of
international strategy for
the university’s president,
Robertson developed and
implemented a university-wide strategy for internationalization and substantial
new strategic alliances with
universities in China, Korea,
and Ethiopia.
From 1971 to 1994,
Robertson was a faculty
member at Wharton,
where he was the Pomerantz
Professor of Marketing
and chair of the Marketing
Department. He also served
as associate dean for executive
education and
led the effort that built
the Steinberg Conference
Center, designed an innovative
set of new senior-management
programs, and
substantially increased financial
contributions.
He joined the London
Business School in 1994 as
Sainsbury Professor, Chair
of Marketing, and served
as deputy dean there from
1995 to 1998.
A native of Scotland,
he earned his PhD and
MA in marketing from
Northwestern University in
1966, after completing his
BA at Wayne State University
in 1963. He has three children
with his wife, Diana, a
professor of organization and
management at the Goizueta
School and a former assistant
professor at Wharton.
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