Thomas S. Robertson

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Thomas S. Robertson
Alma mater Wayne State University
Northwestern University
Occupation(s)professor, academic administrator
Known forFormer dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Thomas S. Robertson is a Scottish-born American academic. He is the Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also the dean from 2007 to 2014.

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Early life

Thomas S. Robertson was born in Scotland. [1] He graduated from the Wayne State University, earned a master of arts degree in sociology and a PhD from its Kellogg School of Management. [1] [2]

Career

Robertson was an assistant professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management from 1966 to 1968 and at the Harvard Business School from 1968 to 1971. [1] He joined the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as a tenured associate professor in 1971, and he was promoted to full professor in 1976. [1] He was the Pomerantz Professor from 1987 to 1994. [1] He has published research in academic journals like the MIT Sloan Management Review , the Journal of Marketing and the International Journal of Research in Marketing . [1]

Robertson was the deputy dean of the London Business School from 1994 to 1998. [1] He was the dean of Emory University's Goizueta Business School from 1998 to 2004. [1] He returned to Wharton in 2007, where he served as the dean until 2014, [1] and he was succeeded by Geoffrey Garrett. As dean, Robertson earned $771,956 in 2014. [3] Since July 2014, Robertson has been the Joshua J. Harris Professor of Marketing at Wharton. [1] He is also the executive director of the Wharton-INSEAD Alliance. [1] Robertson serves on the board of directors of The Carlyle Group. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Board of Directors". The Carlyle Group. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  3. Byrne, John A. (May 18, 2016). "HBS Dean Nohria Paid Less Than Wharton Dean". Poets & Quants. Retrieved March 27, 2018.