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Received his PhD in marketing from the University of Colorado in 1970. Since 1980, he has been a professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame. He also has been on the faculties at Utah State University and the University of Kentucky. He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of South Carolina and the University of Hawaii. In 1990, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His other overseas assignments include directing and teaching in the University of Notre Dame's program in Fremantle, Australia in 1994, and the University's London MBA program in 1998. Professor Etzel has taught marketing courses from the introductory through the doctoral level. He is also a frequent presenter in executive training programs. His research, primarily in marketing management and buyer behavior, has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, and other publications. He is the coauthor of another college-level text, Retailing Today. He has been active in many aspects of the American Marketing Association at the local and national levels, most notably serving as chairman of the board in 1996-1997.

University of Missouri- Columbia

Professor Emeritus of Marketing at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Northwestern University. For 35 years, Bill worked extensively with both undergraduate and graduate students at Colorado, developing teaching/learning materials and curricular programs. As an extension of his teaching interests, he has worked in business and has taught in management development programs for sales and marketing executives. For many years he taught in management development programs sponsored by Sales and Marketing Executives-International, including the Field Sales Management Institute (for middle-level sales executives) and the Graduate School of Sales and Marketing Management (for top-level sales and marketing executives).