Marcelo Bucheli (PhD Stanford) teaches at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies the political economy of the operations of multinational enterprises in a historical perspective, the evolution of business groups, the economic history of Latin America. He is the author of the book "Bananas and Business:The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000" (New York: New York University Press, 2005) and other articles on the operations of United Fruit (now Chiquita) in Colombia and the Caribbean. This research was featured in the Netflix documentary series "Cuba Libre," where he was interviewed to talk about United Fruit's history. He has also published several articles and chapters on the strategies of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Royal Dutch-Shell in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela; ITT in Chile; the history of the Colombian coffee industry; multinationals in apartheid South Africa; and the international expansion of US-based conglomerates. He also co-edited "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America" with Victoria Basualdo and Hartmut Berghoff (New York: Palgrave, 2021) and "Historia Empresarial en América Latina" with Andrea Lluch and Martín Monsalve Zanatti (Lima/Bogotá: Universidad del Pacífico/Universidad de los Andes, 2021) He has a second area of research consisting of finding of integrating history in management research (both methodologically and theoretically). As a result he published "Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) and several theoretical articles. Marcelo is the winner of several teaching and research awards as well as awards in fiction for several short stories. He also developed a Coursera course on Global Strategy Marcelo was a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) where he taught global strategy at the MBA program, the John H. Dunning Fellow in International Business at the Henley Business School (University of Reading, United Kingdom) (2014-2016), visiting professor at the École Polytechnique (Paris, France) (2013), and the Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School (2004-2005), where he taught business history at the MBA program. He has an undergraduate and master's degree in economics from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
