Louis E. Boone
After a long and distinguished career, Dr. Louis E. "Gene" Boone passed away just before the publication of the 13th Edition of CONTEMPORARY MARKETING. Over the years, students and colleagues at the University of Tulsa, the University of South Alabama and other schools in the U.S., Australia and Europe were fortunate to be influenced by Dr. Boone's insights. Many marketing instructors knew Dr. Boone through his prominent career and remember the numerous, significant contributions he made to business education. Dr. Boone served as a pioneer in the marketing discipline and was, arguably, the most creative business writer of his generation.
David L. Kurtz
Dr. David L. Kurtz has taught at a number of major U.S. and foreign universities and has co-authored best-selling books with Dr. Louis E. Boone. Their publications have been translated into Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Dr. Kurtz has lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He attended Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, before entering the graduate business school at the University of Arkansas, where he met Dr. Gene Boone. As longtime co-authors, Dr. Boone and Dr. Kurtz wrote more than 50 books. In addition to writing, the two served as partners in several entrepreneurial ventures. Today, Dr. Kurtz teaches at the University of Arkansas after duty tours in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Seattle and Melbourne, Australia. He is the proud grandfather of five and a sportsman with a golfing handicap too high to mention. Dr. Kurtz, his wife Diane and four demanding canine companions (Daisy, Lucy, Molly and Sally) live in Rogers, Arkansas. Dr. Kurtz holds a distinguished professorship at the Sam M. Walton College of Business in nearby Fayetteville, home of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Tracy A. Suter
Tracy A. Suter is Department Chair, Department of Marketing and Management, at the University of Central Arkansas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Marketing and School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University, among other institutions. Dr. Suter teaches a wide range of courses emphasizing marketing research and business-focused creativity and innovation. Each semester, undergraduate marketing research students complete real-world research projects for area for-profit and not-for-profit firms under his guidance. Completed service-learning projects now number in the hundreds. Dr. Suter's research interests include public policy, the use of innovative technologies in marketing and entrepreneurship and consumer-to-consumer communities. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing and Journal of Retailing, among many others. He also served on several academic journal editorial review boards and is a frequent reviewer for other journals and conferences. Dr. Suter has held endowed chairs in honor of David and Leslie Lawson and Daniel White Jordan during his time in Oklahoma. He has received numerous awards for both research and teaching activities, including the University of Arkansas Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Competition Award given by the Society for Marketing Advances and the Kenneth D. and Leitner Greiner Outstanding Teaching, Regents Distinguished Teaching, and President's Outstanding Faculty Awards, all at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Suter is frequently asked to speak to doctoral students and other academic groups about teaching excellence.
