Tom J. Brown, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. Prior to joining the marketing faculty at Oklahoma State University, he served on the faculty at Southern Methodist University. Professor Brown teaches marketing research and has supervised dozens of student research projects for industry clients ranging from not-for-profit service organizations to Fortune 500 companies. Professor Brown is a past recipient of the Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. In addition, he received a Richard D. Irwin Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship while at the University of Wisconsin, the Kenneth D. and Leitner Greiner… Teaching Award and the Regents Distinguished Research Award, both at Oklahoma State University. Professor Brown's articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Retailing, the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and the Journal of Service Research, among others. His research interests include services marketing and corporate branding and reputation. He has served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Corporate Reputation Review and is cofounder of the Corporate Associations/Identity Research Group. He is currently a member of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association.