Bucheli, Marcelo

(Marcelo Bucheli Gómez)

PERSONAL:

Education: Universidad de los Andes, B.S., 1991, M.A. (economics), 1993; Stanford University, M.A. (history), 1998, Ph.D., 2002.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 117 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Academic. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, instructor, 2001-03; University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, instructor, 2002; California State University, Hayward, instructor, 2003; Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, assistant professor in economic history, 2004; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, assistant professor of business administration, 2005—. University of Cambridge summer school international fellow, 1993; Stanford University, Center for Latin American Studies, Ayacucho fellow, 1995-96, Department of History fellow, 1996-98, Center for Latin American Studies summer research fellow, 1997, Andrew W. Mellon summer research fellow, 1998; Harvard Business School, Newcomen fellow in business history, 2004-05.

MEMBER:

Latin American Studies Association, American Historical Association, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Newcomen Prize, Business History Review, 2004, for best article of the year.

WRITINGS:

Empresas Multinacionales y Enclaves Agrìcolas: El Caso de United Fruit en Magdalena y Urabà, Colombia 1948-1968, Universidad de los Andes (Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia), 1994.

Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000, New York University Press (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to academic journals and periodicals, including Business History Review, Memoria y Sociedad, Desarrollo y Sociedad, Historia Critica, Journal of Economic History, Enterprise and Society, and Harvard Business Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Marcelo Bucheli is an educator who earned a bachelor of science degree and a master of arts degree, both in economics, from Bogota, Colombia's Universidad de los Andes in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Bucheli then moved to the United States and completed a master of arts degree in history at Stanford University in 1998 before finishing a Ph.D. in 2002 from the same university.

Bucheli began working in academia as an instructor at Stanford University from 2001 to 2003. He consecutively served as an instructor at the University of San Francisco in 2002. In 2003 he instructed classes at Hayward's California State University. Bucheli returned to his alma mater, Universidad de los Andes, in 2004, working as an assistant professor in economic history. In 2005 he began working as an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bucheli also held various fellowships at universities in the United States throughout his career. In 1993 he was a University of Cambridge summer school international fellow in England. Bucheli held a series of fellowships at Stanford University, including being a Center for Latin American Studies Ayacucho fellow from 1995 to 1996, a Department of History fellow from 1996 to 1998, a Center for Latin American Studies summer research fellow in 1997, and an Andrew W. Mellon summer research fellow in 1998. Bucheli also served as a Harvard Business School Newcomen fellow in business history from 2004 to 2005.

Bucheli is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Latin American Studies Association, the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association. He is a contributor to several academic journals and periodicals, including the Business History Review, Memoria y Sociedad, Desarrollo y Sociedad, Historia Critica, Journal of Economic History, Enterprise and Society, and the Harvard Business Review. In 2004 Bucheli was awarded the Newcomen Prize by the Business History Review for having written best article of the year. He published his first book, Empresas Multinacionales y Enclaves Agrìcolas: El Caso de United Fruit en Magdalena y Urabà, Colombia 1948-1968, in 1994.

Bucheli published his second book, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000, in 2005. The book looks into the United Fruit Company (UFCO) in Colombia, giving both political and historical business perspective on the megacompany. Bucheli places the company in the context of a business enterprise that is guided by shareholders and American consumer demand. Carlos Sabino, writing in the Independent Review, remarked that Bucheli's account "is comprehensive and accurate, offering a realistic view of an important and unusual company. The reader may sometimes wish for more detailed information about UFCO's operations, but this small fault is offset by a sound approach to the period and the social and political environment in which the company had to work. Bananas and Business reports valuable research, and it will certainly be useful for all those scholars who need to understand the true forces at work in the complex world of the plantations, the turbulent politics of Latin America, and the banana business." Paul J. Dosal, reviewing the book in the Journal of Latin American Studies, commented that "although Bucheli may have gone too far in trying to explain the virtues of vertical integration, he does not attempt to apologise for the company's behaviour. He criticises the company's behaviour when the evidence leads him to that conclusion. By analysing the company as a capitalist enterprise responding to market demand in the United States, political conditions in host countries and labour demands in the divisions, he has added a new dimension to our understanding of this important multinational corporation. One can only wish that he will one day gain access to the full and complete run of company archives at corporate headquarters."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, April, 2006, Thomas O'Brien, review of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000, p. 538.

Business History Review, spring, 2006, Maria Ines Barbero, review of Bananas and Business.

Choice, July 1, 2005, R.J. Alexander, review of Bananas and Business, p. 2031.

Hispanic American Historical Review, August, 2006, Steve Striffler, review of Bananas and Business, p. 613.

Independent Review, winter, 2006, Carlos Sabino, review of Bananas and Business.

International Affairs, May, 2005, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, review of Bananas and Business, p. 664.

Journal of American History, March, 2006, Jane M. Rausch, review of Bananas and Business.

Journal of Latin American Studies, February, 2006, Paul J. Dosal, review of Bananas and Business, p. 208.

ONLINE

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Business Administration Web site,http://www.business.uiuc.edu/ (April 10, 2008), author profile.