Carl McDaniel served as a professor emeritus at the University of Texas–Arlington. He chaired the marketing department at UTA for 32 years. Throughout his more than forty-year career, he received several awards for outstanding teaching. McDaniel worked as a district sales manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and served as a board member of the North Texas Higher Education Authority, a billion-dollar financial institution. McDaniel wrote and coauthored over 90 textbooks in marketing and business, in addition to his contributions to MKTG. His research appeared in The Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the California Management Review. McDaniel was a member of the American Marketing Association. Along with his academic experience, McDaniel co-owned a marketing research firm and served as a senior consultant to the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva, Switzerland, whose mission is to help developing nations increase their exports. McDaniel held a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree and doctorate from Arizona State University.
