Allan J. Kimmel is a retired Professor of Marketing at ESCP Europe in Paris, France and served as a visiting professor at Université Paris IX-Dauphine (Paris) and ESSEC Business School (Paris), and visiting lecturer at TEC de Monterrey (Mexico), Universidad de San Andrés (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Turku School of Economics (Finland), and the University of Vaasa (Finland). His research and writing interests focus on consumer behavior, marketing and research ethics, deception, commercial rumors, connected marketing, and word of mouth.