College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marcelo Bucheli

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Biographical Sketch

Marcelo Bucheli, assistant professor of business administration, earned his B.S and M.A. in economics from the Universidad de los Andes and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. Before coming to Illinois in 2005, he taught business history at Harvard Business School. His book, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000, appeared in 2005 from New York University Press, and his article "Enforcing Business Contracts in South America" Business History Review, vol. 78, No. 2 (2004) was awarded with the Newcomen Prize for the best article published in that journal in 2004. He was recently appointed as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois for 2009-2010