Victor Cook

I'm a university professor with three sons, three grandsons, one grandaughter and two step daughters.

Debra and Rick Rees Endowed Professor and Faculty Director, Tulane Postdoctoral Brdige to Business Program, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5669. I'm also president and design director of a furniture manufacturing and retailing company (http://www.thestyle.com) located in New Orleans, and West Palm Beach.

I received my B.A. at Florida State University in 1960, an M.S. from Louisiana State University in 1962, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1965. I began my academic career as a doctoral fellow at the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) and a Lecturer in Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Then I moved to Cambridge, MA as Associate Director of Research when MSI moved to the Harvard Business School. After that I served six years as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Chicago.

The Style Furniture Corporation designs, manufactures and sells to collectors a complete line of scaleable modern furniture in the manner of de Stijl. All our products are hand made from solid hardwoods in Brasil. My oldest son and I are responsible for the operations of the company, the design of our products, manufacturing specifications, sales, distribution and installation. He is Vice President of Manufacturing.