Daniel C. Bello, a professor and the director of the Institute of International Business at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, has been honored with the American Marketing Association’s Significant Contributions to Global Marketing 2015 Award. The Global Marketing Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association chooses a marketing educator each year to receive the award, which recognizes a lifetime of contributions to global marketing that have advanced thought in the field. Bello received the award during the AMA Summer Educator’s Conference in Chicago on August 15.
Bello’s research fouses on inter-organizational relationships in international contexts, including business-to-business relationships, global alliances, and distribution channels. Bello serves as the marketing editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, after previously serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Marketing. In his career, Bello has served as a faculty member at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business and at the University of Notre Dame, and he held management positions in Ford Motor Company’s product development group. Bello earned his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
In their letter notifying Bello that he had been chosen as the recipient of the Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award, the selection committee wrote: “Frequent mention was made of your research, teaching and service contributions that have helped disseminate marketing knowledge across the globe. In particular, your work in the field of international distribution channels was described as groundbreaking.”