Awards:

1950-60 Fellowships to University of Chicago, M.I.T., Harvard

1962 Graham and Dodd Award for best article in the Financial Analyst Journal

1964 McLaren Advertising Research Award for best article on media selection

1965 Media/Scope Merit Award for distinguished article

1972 Only three-time winner of the Alpha Kappa Psi Award published in the Journal of Marketing that year

1975 Voted Leader in Marketing Thought by the academic members of the American Marketing Association.

1976 Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning and Control voted as the leading book in marketing

1978 Paul D. Converse Award (American Marketing Association) for "outstanding contributions to science in marketing"

1983 Stuart Henderson Britt Award, "Marketer of the Year," Chicago Chapter A.M.A.

1985 Academy of Health Services Marketing established the Philip Kotler Award for Excellence in Health Care Marketing and honored him as the first recipient

1985 Prize for Marketing Excellence awarded by the European Association of Marketing Consultants and Sales Trainers

1985 First recipient of the American Marketing Association's Distinguished Marketing Educator Award

1989 Charles Coolidge Parlin Annual National Marketing Award honoring "the individual who made an outstanding contribution to marketing," Philadelphia Chapter, A.M.A.

1989 Victor Mataja Medal honoring "the individual that year who made an outstanding contribution to marketing," Vienna

1989 The European Association of Marketing Consultants and Sales Trainers awarded Kotler their prize for “Marketing Excellence.”

1989 The Annual Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award.

1995 Marketing of the Year from the Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI)

2007 Appointed a special ambassador at large for Indonesian tourism. In May

2011, the site of Denpasar in Bali bestowed the title to Professor Kotler of honorary resident of Denpasar.

2013 Kotler was chosen as the first recipient of the William L. Wilkie Marketing for a Better World Award honoring a marketer who has made a significant contribution to the understanding and appreciation for market’s potential to improve the world.

2013 Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Marketing Scholarship and Practice.

2013 Kotler was honored in Sao Paulo with the Badge of Honor of Officer of the Order of Academic Palms established in France in the 19th Century.

2013 Kotler was inducted into the Management Hall of Fame, along with a 10 other major management gurus.

2013 Kotler was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame in New York City.

2018 Received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. Type the address https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/12/06/philip-kotler-2 to read many Internet stories about Kotler.

2020 Interviewed by Tiger and answered questions. The interviewed was listened to be 7 million Chinese people.**

2020 May 10. I was interviewed on Zoom by Tiger. My interview was listened to by 7 million persons according to Zoom.

2021 June 14. Lifetime Contribution Award from the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC)

2021 October 11 Lifetime Achievement Award from Thinkers 50

2022 February 4 Lifetime Achievement Award from Rise World Summit (India)

2020 Feb. 10 Voted #3 Guruin Management (see the top 30 Gurus of Management)

2022 Feb. 10 Philip Kotler ranked #7 in the world ranking and #6 in US on top 1000 scientists in the field of Business and Management. Ranking done by Research.com

2020 Feb. Philip Kotler and Jerry Wind chosen to present the Biannual Awards in Research in Marketing for the new business magazine MBR. Philip Kotler was the first person to receive the “Leader in Marketing Thought” award from American Marketing Association. In a survey of 1,000 executives conducted in 25 countries about the Most Influential Business Writers/Management Gurus by The Financial Times, Philip Kotler ranked fourth after Peter Drucker, Bill Gates, and Jack Welch.

2021 Nov 5. The IMC (International Management Consulting) of U.S. awarded me theonce-a-year 2021 Lifetime Contribution Award. See www.imcusa.org.

2022 Feb5. Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the RISE World Summit.  RISE stands for Responsible, Inclusive, Sustainable, and Eco-Friendly

2022 February 13. Philip Kotler ranked #1 guru in management in Global Gurus ranking.

2022 July 11. Philip Kotler awarded the MAD STARS 2022 International Honorarary Awardfrom from South Korea

2022. Philip Kotler’s Ranking as a Google Scholar. Philip Kotler is the 119 top Google Scholar in a list of the top 1000 Google Scholar. Philip Kotler’s h-index ranking is 217 This means that 217 of his papers had 217 or more citations. Many of his paper have thousands of citations and they are all listed in Google Scholar.

2024. Philip Kotler ranked #5 guru in the World’s Top 30 Management professors.

2024  March.  Received the 2024 TARA Lifetime Achievement Award given to distinguished scholars in the field of marketing, strategy, and business policy. This award was instituted from 2022 with a collaboration of multiple universities across countries.

2024  March.   Received with Professor Ravi Achrol the International Best Research Award. Based on “Distributed Marketing Networks: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Journal of Business Research, 2022.

Honorary Degrees

Professor Kotler has received 22 honorary degrees from the following universities:

· 1998 DePaul University (Chicago)

· 1990 University of Zurich

· 1995 Athens School of Economics

· 1997 Catholic University Santo Domingo, (Dominican Republic)

· 1998 Groupe HEC (Paris)

· 1998 University of Stockholm

· 1998 Cracow School of Economics

· 2001 Budapest School of Economic Science and Public Administration

· 2003 Universidad Americana (Assuncion, Paraguay)

· 2003 BI Norwegian School of Management (Oslo)

· 2005 Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest

· 2006 National University of  Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kiev, Ukraine)

· 2007 Nyenrode Business University (Breukeken, Netherlands)·     

. 2008 Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru)

· 2008 Mediterranean University (Budva, Montenegro)

· 2009 University American College (Skopia, Macedonia)

· 2012 HHL Graduate School of Management (Leipzig)

· 2012 Iliria University (Pristina, Kosovo)

· 2012 University of Bucharest, (Romania)

· 2013 Mackensie University (Sao Paulo, Brazil)·     

. 2013 Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (Moscow)

· 2018 La Sapienza University (Rome)

. 2018 Istanbul Ticaret University

Philip receiving one of his honorary diplomas.

Philip receiving one of his honorary diplomas.