Joseph F. Hair, Jr. is Professor of Marketing and the Cleverdon Chair of Business at the University of South Alabama, and Director of the PhD degree program in the Mitchell College of Business. He formerly held the Copeland Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University. In the years 2018–۲۰۲۱, Dr. Hair was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as being in the top 1 percent globally of all Business and Economics professors. He was selected for the award based on citations of his research and scholarly accomplishments, which for his career exceed 302,000. He has published more than 85 editions of his books, including market leaders Multivariate Data Analysis, 8th edition, Cengage Learning, UK, 2019, which has been cited more than 152,000 times; Marketing Research, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2023; MKTG/Marketing Principles, 13th edition, Cengage Learning, 2020, used at over 500 universities globally; A Primer in Partial Least Squared Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), 3rd edition, Sage, 2022; and Essentials of Business Research Methods, 5th edition, Routledge, 2023.

In addition to publishing numerous referred manuscripts in academic journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business/Chicago, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Retailing, he has presented executive education and management training programs for numerous companies, has been retained as consultant and expert witness for a wide variety of firms, and is frequently an invited speaker on research methods and multivariate analysis.