Associate Dean and Director
Eller MBA Programs

E. LaBrent Chrite (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is the Associate Dean of the Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona, where he oversees our MBA offerings.  Prior to his arrival at Arizona in 2003, Chrite was at the University of Michigan Business School, where he served as the assistant dean for global programs and as the managing director of the School’s flagship outreach and research institute, the William Davidson Institute, leading the organization’s efforts in impacting the transformation of public and private sector entities in transition and emerging economies.

Chrite also assumed the role of executive director of the University’s South Africa Initiatives Office, forging sustained and reciprocal partnerships between the academic community at Michigan and the academic and private sector communities in South Africa. Dr. Chrite has conducted research, consulted, and taught in many countries around the world including multiple countries in sub Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. He has worked closely with the World Bank on private sector development issues as well as its sister organization, the IFC. Chrite has received grants from and led economic development projects for the U.S. Department of State, the Eurasia Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Chrite’s work has focused primarily on leveraging private sector capacities in transition and emerging markets in order to create enabling environments, strengthen and sustain small and medium enterprise creation, and leverage public-private sector partnerships as precursors for growth and human development. Chrite teaches international business, corporate strategy, and courses on the multinational enterprise and emerging markets at The University of Arizona.