Thomas S. Robertson

Thomas S. Robertson was born in Scotland.^[1] He graduated from the Wayne State University, then earned a Master of Arts degree in sociology and a Ph.D. from the 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]