About the Author
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As a team, Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong provide a blend of
skills uniquely suited to writing an introductory marketing text.
Professor Kotler is one of the world’s leading authorities on
marketing. Professor Armstrong is an award-winning teacher of
undergraduate business students. Together they make the complex
world of marketing practical, approachable, and enjoyable.
Philip Kotler is S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of
International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University. He received his master’s degree at the
University of Chicago and his PhD at M.I.T., both in economics.
Dr. Kotler is author of Marketing Management (Pearson), now in
its 15th Edition and the most widely used marketing textbook in
graduate schools of business worldwide. He has authored dozens of
other successful books and has written more than 100 articles in
leading journals. He is the only three-time winner of the coveted
Alpha Kappa Psi award for the best annual article in the Journal
of Marketing.
Professor Kotler was named the first recipient of four major
awards: the Distinguished Marketing Educator of the Year Award
and the William L. Wilkie “Marketing for a Better World” Award,
both given by the American Marketing Association; the Philip
Kotler Award for Excellence in Care Marketing presented by
the Academy for Care Services Marketing; and the Sheth
Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Marketing
Scholarship and Practice. His numerous other major honors include
the Sales and Marketing Executives International Marketing
Educator of the Year Award; The European Association of Marketing
Consultants and Trainers Marketing Excellence Award; the Charles
Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award; and the Paul D.
Converse Award, given by the American Marketing Association to
honor “outstanding contributions to science in marketing.” A
recent Forbes survey ranks Professor Kotler in the top 10 of the
world’s most influential business thinkers. And in a recent
Financial Times poll of 1,000 senior executives across the world,
Professor Kotler was ranked as the fourth “most influential
business writer/guru” of the 21st century.
Dr. Kotler has served as chairman of the College on Marketing of
the Institute of Management Sciences, a director of the American
Marketing Association, and a trustee of the Marketing Science
Institute. He has consulted with many major US and international
companies in the areas of marketing strategy and planning,
marketing organization, and international marketing. He has
traveled and lectured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and
South America, advising companies and governments about global
marketing practices and rtunities.
Gary Armstrong is Crist W. Blackwell Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Undergraduate Education in the Kenan-ler Business
School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
holds undergraduate and master's degrees in business from Wayne
State University in Detroit, and he received his PhD in marketing
from Northwestern University. Dr. Armstrong has contributed
numerous articles to leading business journals. As a consultant
and researcher, he has worked with many companies on marketing
research, sales management, and marketing strategy.
But Professor Armstrong’s first love has always been teaching.
His long-held Blackwell Distinguished Professorship is the only
permanent endowed professorship for distinguished undergraduate
teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
has been very active in the teaching and administration of
Kenan-ler’s undergraduate program. His administrative posts
have included Chair of Marketing, Associate Director of the
Undergraduate Business Program, Director of the Business Honors
Program, and many others. Through the years, he has worked
closely with business student groups and has received several UNC
campus-wide and Business School teaching awards. He is the only
repeat recipient of school’s highly regarded Award for Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching, which he received three times. Most
recently, Professor Armstrong received the UNC Board of Governors
Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor
bestowed by the sixteen-campus University of North Carolina
system.
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