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Philip Kotler

Management Theorist

Philip Kotler (b. 1931) is an American marketing scholar and S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Emeritus at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, widely regarded as the father of modern marketing management for integrating economics, organizational theory and behavioral psychology into marketing practice. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1931-05-27 1
Birth Year
1931 2
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, United States 1
Nationality
American 2
Defining Contribution
Author of Marketing Management (1967), the textbook that helped establish marketing as a rigorous management discipline and popularized the concept of the marketing mix. 2
Notable Work
Marketing Management (1967) 2
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Source Wikipedia, Philip Kotler

Widely credited as the father of modern marketing management.

Source Wikipedia, Philip Kotler

Kotler's textbook Marketing Management, first published in 1967, is widely credited with defining and systematizing the discipline as an academic and professional field.

Source Wikipedia, Marketing management
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1. Wikipedia, Philip Kotler
  • Lead section
    May 27, 1931
  • Infobox
    Chicago, Illinois
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WikipediaAssociated With: Marketing, Views about marketing section
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he has done more than any other writer or scholar to promote the importance of marketing, transforming it from a peripheral activity, bolted on to the more "important" work of production.
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