Thomas S. Robertson

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]

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]