Marketing Management

Business and economics

Description

Marketing Management explains how organizations turn knowledge about customers, competitors, and markets into coordinated decisions. Philip Kotler connects marketing theory with the practical work of identifying opportunities, selecting customers, shaping an offering, communicating its value, and allocating limited resources. Topics such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, branding, and customer value appear within a broader account of how marketing plans are developed, implemented, and evaluated. Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, the book treats marketing as an organization-wide management discipline rather than a collection of promotional techniques. Its central concern is how disciplined market insight can guide strategy while keeping decisions responsive to changing customers and competitive conditions.

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Academic · Dense · Direct · Technical

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Structure

Reference

Focus

Ideas · Information

Emotional intensity

1 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 4 / 5
Ideas: 4 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 3 / 5

Themes

AmbitionKnowledge and truthWealthWork

About Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler is an American marketing professor, author, and consultant whose work helped establish marketing as a broad management discipline rather than a synonym for advertising or sales. His textbooks proceed through linked decisions: researching customers, segmenting markets, selecting targets, positioning offerings, and coordinating products, prices, distribution, and promotion. Marketing Management gave business education a durable vocabulary of the marketing mix, segmentation, and value delivery, pairing systematic frameworks with cases and practical applications. Principles of Marketing uses a similarly staged structure, moving from consumer research to brand building, launch choices, and long-term customer relationships. His scope extends well beyond commercial products into health care, public institutions, tourism, the arts, poverty alleviation, and social marketing designed to encourage healthier and safer behavior. In collaborative work such as Marketing 5.0, he applies the same framework-driven method to artificial intelligence, automation, and personalization, while keeping attention on human needs and unequal access.

About Kevin Lane Keller

Kevin Lane Keller is a marketing scholar and the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. His central subject is brand equity: how what consumers know, feel, and do in response to a brand creates value, and how managers can build, measure, and protect that value over time. He develops this work through research published in leading marketing journals and through practical frameworks grounded in consequential business decisions. Strategic Brand Management gives his approach its fullest expression, connecting positioning, marketing programs, and brand architecture to consumer response and financial outcomes. As co-author with Philip Kotler of later editions of Marketing Management, Keller also places branding within the broader work of market analysis, product design, pricing, distribution, and communication.

Book details

Publisher: Pearson Education
Language: English
ISBN: 9781292092621

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