Philip Kotler Philip Kotler is the SC Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Although best known as a marketing guru, Kotler is a classically trained economist who did hs master's studies at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, the famed Nobel laureate and free-market evangelist, before moving to MIT to pursue a PhD under Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow, two Nobel Prize-winning Keynesian economists. Read More Read Less