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List of the most influential people in Marketing,
Kathryn LaTour is an American academic, researcher and author. She is an applied cognitive psychologist and currently serves as the Banfi Vintners Professor of Wine Education and Management at the School of Hotel Administration within Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business.
Go to ProfileJoseph F. Hair Jr. is an American author, consultant, and professor. Currently he serves as Distinguished Professor of Marketing, is the holder of the Cleverdon Chair of Business and Director of the PhD program at the Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama. Previously he held the positions of Senior Scholar, DBA program at the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, and held the Copeland Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana Louisiana State University. He has authored over 75 editions ...
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Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska
1984 - Present (42 years)
Katarzyna Julia Sanak-Kosmowska is a Polish marketing and public relations theorist and researcher, assistant professor at the Marketing Department at the Kraków University of Economics. Biography She was born in 1984 as the daughter of Marek Sanak, a molecular biologist; and Iwona Sanak, a dentist. She attended the Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in Kraków, where she passed the matriculation exam. Subsequently, she graduated with Bachelor's and Master's degree in management and marketing from the Jagiellonian University. In 2006, she studied at the IECS – The Strasbourg Graduate School of Management within the Socrates-Erasmus programme.
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V. Kumar
1957 - Present (69 years)
Dr. V Kumar currently serves as the Salvatore Zizza Professor of Marketing, Tobin College of Business, St. John's University, NY, USA. Earlier he served as the Distinguished Term Professor and Senior Fellow at the Indian School of Business and prior to that he served as the faculty at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, where he held the Richard and Susan Lenny Distinguished Chair in Marketing.
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Ben Baldanza
1961 - Present (65 years)
Basil Ben Baldanza is an economist and was the chief executive officer and president of Spirit Airlines from 2005 to 2016, a period in which he led the transformation of the company into an ultra-low-cost carrier.
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Jane Buckingham
1968 - Present (58 years)
Jane Ruth Buckingham is an American author and businesswoman who founded the consumer insights firm Trendera. She is known for writing "The Modern Girl's Guide to Life" book series, which spawned the television series of the same name. She was convicted in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.
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