Dr. Shelby D. Hunt: A world-renowned marketing scholar, marketing legend, thought leader, mentor and more

ABSTRACT Dr. Shelby D. Hunt is a world-renowned marketing scholar and thought leader. Over the course of his first five decades of distinguished and illustrious academic journey, he has made numerous seminal contributions to the advancement of marketing thought and practice. Hunt’s scholarly contributions have been greatly influential in shaping the content and body of knowledge in a number of substantive areas in marketing including macromarketing, marketing channels, marketing ethics, marketing theory and strategic marketing. This tribute article provides a retrospective and perspective on five of Hunt’s seminal pieces (one from each of the first five decades of Hunt’s illustrious academic journey) that have had a lasting impact on my research and teaching and undoubtedly on those of countless other marketing academics worldwide.