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Marketing
Management
PHILIP KOTLER
Northwestern University
KEVIN LANE KELLER
Dartmouth College
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Kotler, Philip.
Marketing management/Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller. — 14th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-13-210292-6
1. Marketing—Management. I. Keller, Kevin Lane, 1956- II. Title.
HF5415.13.K64 2012
658.8—dc22 2010046655
10987654321
ISBN 13: 978-0-13-210292-6
ISBN 10: 0-13-210292-7
This book is dedicated to my wife and best friend, Nancy, with love.
– PK
This book is dedicated to my wife, Punam, and my two daughters,
Carolyn and Allison, with much love and thanks.
– KLK
About the Authors
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Authors
Philip Kotler is one of the world’s leading authorities on market-
ing. He is the 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 Ph.D.
at MIT, both in economics. He did postdoctoral work in mathematics at
Harvard University and in behavioral science at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Kotler is the coauthor of Principles of Marketing and Marketing:
An Introduction. His Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations,
now in its seventh edition, is the best seller in that specialized area.
Dr. Kotler’s other books include Marketing Models; The New Competi-
tion; Marketing Professional Services; Strategic Marketing for Educational
Institutions; Marketing for Health Care Organizations; Marketing Congregations;
High Visibility; Social Marketing; Marketing Places; The Marketing of Nations;
Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism; Standing Room Only—Strategies for
Marketing the Performing Arts; Museum Strategy and Marketing; Marketing Moves;
Kotler on Marketing; Lateral Marketing: Ten Deadly Marketing Sins; and Corporate
Social Responsibility.
In addition, he has published more than one hundred articles in leading journals, in-
cluding the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Business
Horizons, California Management Review, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of
Marketing Research, Management Science, the Journal of Business Strategy, and
Futurist. He is the only three-time winner of the coveted Alpha Kappa Psi award for the
best annual article published in the Journal of Marketing.
Professor Kotler was the first recipient of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA)
Distinguished Marketing Educator Award (1985). The European Association of Marketing
Consultants and Sales Trainers awarded him their Prize for Marketing Excellence. He was
chosen as the Leader in Marketing Thought by the Academic Members of the AMA in
a 1975 survey. He also received the 1978 Paul Converse Award of the AMA, honoring his
original contribution to marketing. In 1995, the Sales and Marketing Executives International
(SMEI) named him Marketer of the Year. In 2002, Professor Kotler received the Distinguished
Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science. He has received honorary
doctoral degrees from Stockholm University, the University of Zurich, Athens University of
Economics and Business, DePaul University, the Cracow School of Business and
Economics, Groupe H.E.C. in Paris, the Budapest School of Economic Science and Public
Administration, and the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna.
Professor Kotler has been a consultant to many major U.S. and foreign companies, in-
cluding IBM, General Electric, AT&T, Honeywell, Bank of America, Merck, SAS Airlines,
Michelin, and others in the areas of marketing strategy and planning, marketing organiza-
tion, and international marketing.
He has been Chairman of the College of Marketing of the Institute of Management
Sciences, a Director of the American Marketing Association, a Trustee of the Marketing
Science Institute, a Director of the MAC Group, a member of the Yankelovich Advisory
Board, and a member of the Copernicus Advisory Board. He was a member of the Board
of Governors of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Advisory
Board of the Drucker Foundation. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia,
and South America, advising and lecturing to many companies about global marketing
opportunities.
Philip Kotler