Selling: Building Partnerships

Barton A. Weitz received an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from MIT and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University. He was a member of the faculty at the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is JCPenney Emeritus Eminent Scholar Chair in Retail Management in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida (UF). Dr. Weitz founded the UF David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research, which is supported by contributions from JCPenney, Macys, Walmart, Office Depot, and Home Depot. He has won awards for teaching excellence and published in leading academic journals on channel relationships, electronic retailing, store design, salesperson effectiveness, and sales force and human resource management. Dr. Weitz is past chair of the American Marketing Association and was honored as the AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator.



Stephen Castleberry received his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Alabama. He is professor of marketing and head of the Marketing Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition to personal selling, he teaches marketing principles, marketing ethics, and marketing research. He has also taught at Northern Illinois University and the University of Georgia. He has published more than 45 referred national and international journal articles and is the past marketing editor of the Journal of Applied Business Research.



John F. Tanner, Jr. earned his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia and is dean, Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University. Before entering academia, he spent eight years with Rockwell International and Xerox Corporation as a salesperson and marketing manager. Dr. Tanner has received several awards for teaching effectiveness and research, including the Distinguished Teacher award from the Society of Marketing Advances. He has been named Reviewer of the Year and Co-author of the Paper of the Year by the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Dr. Tanner has authored or co-authored 15 books and has published more than 80 articles. He has received research grants from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the University Research Council, and the Walmart Foundation. Currently, he is the editor of Marketing Educators' Review.