Ph.D., Major: Marketing; Minors: Management, Economic Theory, Economic History, College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1971. Dissertation: “The Impact of the Acculturation Process on Consumer Purchasing Patterns.” M.A., Major: Marketing; Minor: Sociology, College of Business Administration, University of Florida, 1969. Thesis: “A History and Evaluation of the Central American Common Market.” B.A., Major: Economics; Minor: Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Florida, 1966. Japanese International Management Seminar; Academy of Management seminar, July-August 1972, visited multinational corporations in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto to learn about their marketing and management operations.

Joe F. Hair is Professor of Marketing, Cleverdon Chair of Business, and Director of the PhD degree program in the Mitchell College of Business, at the University of South Alabama. In 2018 and 2019 he was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being in the top 1% globally of all Business and Economics professors. He was selected for the award based on his scholarly citations of his research, which for his career exceed 230,000. Google Scholar ranks him #1 globally in the categories of Marketing and Multivariate Data Analysis, and number #2 in Research Methods. Joe formerly held the Copeland Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University.