Alexandra Roth, Adjunct Professor

Alexandra V. Roth joined Northeastern University’s International Business Group in 2005, prior to which she worked as an internal consultant at the Deutsche Bank and as a General and Project Manager at the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs, the World Corporate Ethics’ Council, and the Society for European Business History in Frankfurt and in London. Through her experiences as a management consultant, especially during the merger activities of Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust, she became acquainted with the interrelationships of peoples of different cultures in a business environment and organized “Cultural Assessment Townhalls”. Under several reengineering projects, she was responsible for integrating and streamlining operational support and functions of Corporate Cultural Affairs and established a data base which for the first time consolidated the bank’s worldwide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.  She was also involved in projects heightening employees’ awareness of diversity differences through management of community relations participation and executive training.

Prof. Roth holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has conducted fieldwork in Native American communities in Alaska and managed a development aid project in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin.  Her research interests are cross-cultural management, globalization and cultural change, business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropy and wealth with responsibility.

Prof. Roth teaches courses in International Business Management, Cultural Aspects of International Business, and Managing the Global Enterprise.

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