Robert Grosse

Robert Grosse is professor of business administration and director for Latin America at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He joined the university in August of 1994, and recently rejoined in 2016.

Professor Grosse was dean of the School of Business Administration at American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) during 201416. Before that he was director of George Masons Center for Global Business, Innovation and Transformation during 201113. Before joining George Mason University, Professor Grosse was the director (dean) of the EGADE Business School at Monterrey Tec in Mexico. He oversaw the EGADE campuses in Monterrey and Mexico City. He was also the founding director of Standard Bank Groups (South Africa) executive education program, the Global Leadership Centre, which offers leadership development training to the groups 11,000 managers and executives. He joined the group in March of 2006, and became the overall head of Leadership Development and Learning in July of 2007.

He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, both in international economics. He has taught international finance in the MBA and Master of Global Management programs at Thunderbird, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), as well as in many universities in Latin America.

Professor Grosse is a leading author on international business and on business in Latin America. He has written about global firms strategies in the region (Can Latin American Firms Compete?. Oxford, 2007), the financial crises of 20089 as well as in the 1980s and 1990s and strategies of banks and firms to deal with them (three books and a dozen articles) and the strategies of Latin American firms in international competition (cases on Enersis, Banco Ganadero, YPF, and LanChile, among others). He is editing the Oxford Handbook on Management in Emerging Markets (Oxford, 2017 forthcoming). His recent book on "Emerging Markets: Strategies for Competing in the Global Value Chain" was published in 2015 by Kogan Page. He is a fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Business Association for Latin American Studies.

Professor Grosse has worked as chair in capital markets at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid), and as visiting professor of international finance at Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), ICESI (Cali, Colombia), Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia), Uniandes (Bogota, Colombia), Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru), and at the Universidad Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile). He has taught executive programs in international finance and global business strategy in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad, Uruguay and Venezuela. He was president of the Business Association of Latin American Studies in 20056 and president of the Academy of International Business during 201214.

He has consulted for a wide range of clients, beginning with Anaconda Copper Corporation and ending with Xerox. In addition he has worked for the US Commerce, Justice, State, and Treasury Departments, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations. Among the many companies he has served are: American Express, Banco Ganadero, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, EXXON, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Raymond James, Texaco, and YPF.

He lives in Glendale, Arizona, with his wife Christine. He enjoys the outdoors and many sports from canoeing to taekwondo.

Expertise Areas:

• Emerging markets
• Global studies
• International economics
• International finance

Education

• Ph.D. International Economics, University of North Carolina
• B.A. International Economics, Princeton University