John F. (Jeff) Tanner, Jr. is Professor of Marketing and the Executive Director of Baylor University's Business Collaboratory. He joined the faculty at Baylor in 1988, upon completing his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. He has published over 70 scientific research articles, and presented over 200 conference papers or posters. Tanner's work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, and others. Dr. Tanner is also author or co-author of 15 books, including the leading sales text Selling: Building Partnerships, Ninth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2014), and Principles of Marketing: How Marketing Gets Done (Flat World Knowledge, 2013). His newest book, Analytics and Dynamic Customer Strategy: Big Profits from Big Data (Wiley, 2014), is aimed at marketing execs.