Professor Robert Grosse is Director of the Global Leadership Development and Learning Unit at Standard Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa.  He joined the Group as head of the new Global Leadership Centre in 2006.  He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina, both in international economics.  He has taught international finance in the MBA 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.  As a consultant in international business he has worked for the US Commerce, State, and Treasury Departments, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations.  Among the many companies he has served are: American Express, Anaconda, Banco Ganadero, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, EXXON, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Raymond James, Texaco, YPF, and Xerox.

Professor Grosse is a leading author on international 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 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 wrote a section on "International Business in Latin America" for the Oxford Handbook of International Business (Oxford, 2001).  He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Professor Grosse has worked as Chair in Capital Markets at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid), and as Visiting Professor of International Finance at ICESI (Cali, Colombia), Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia) 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, México, Panama, Perú, Puerto Rico, Spain, Trinidad, Uruguay and Venezuela.  He was President of the Business Association of Latin American Studies in 2005-6.

For additional information: Thunderbird Faculty Profile for Dr. Grosse