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About the Authors
As a team, Gary Armstrong and Philip Kotler provide a blend of skills uniquely suited to
writing an introductory marketing text. Professor Armstrong is an award-winning teacher of
undergraduate business students. Professor Kotler is one of the world’s leading authorities
on marketing. Together they make the complex world of marketing practical, approachable,
and enjoyable.
GAry ArmstronG is Crist W. Blackwell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of
Undergraduate Education in the Kenan-Flagler 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 Ph.D. in marketing from North-
western University. Dr. Armstrong has contributed numerous articles to leading business
journals. As a consultant and researcher, he has worked with many companies on market-
ing research, sales management, and marketing strategy.
But Professor Armstrong’s first love has always been teaching. His long-held Black-
well 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-Flagler’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 campuswide and Business School teaching awards. He is the only
repeat recipient of the 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 16-campus University of North Carolina system.
PhIlIP Kotler is S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Mar-
keting at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his
master’s degree at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. 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 50 books and 150
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 Bet-
ter World” Award, both given by the American Marketing Association; the Philip Kotler
Award for Excellence in Health Care Marketing presented by the Academy for Health Care
Services Marketing; and the Sheth Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Mar-
keting Scholarship and Practice. He is a charter member of the Marketing Hall of Fame,
was voted the first Leader in Marketing Thought by the American Marketing Associa-
tion, and was named the Founder of Modern Marketing Management in the Handbook of
Management Thinking. 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 Ameri-
can 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
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the world, Professor Kotler was ranked as the fourth “most influential business writer/
guru” of the twenty-first century.
Dr. Kotler has served as chairman of the College of Marketing of the Institute of Man-
agement Sciences, a director of the American Marketing Association, and a trustee of the
Marketing Science Institute. He has consulted with many major U.S. 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 opportunities.
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