Dr. Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., got his B.S and Ph.D. degrees in economics from The University of Tennessee, spent 3 years on the economics faculty at Virginia Tech, and served on the faculty of The University of Alabama’s College of Commerce and Business Administration for 24 years. In 1974 and again in 1982, Arthur spent semester-long sabbaticals as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School.

His areas of specialization are competition and market analysis, business strategy, and the economics of business enterprises. In addition to publishing over thirty articles in some twenty-five different professional and trade publications, he has authored or co-authored 5 textbooks and 6 computer-based simulation exercises. His strategy simulations and textbooks have been used at well over 1,000 college and university campuses worldwide.

Dr. Thompson spends much of his off-campus time giving presentations, working with companies, putting on management development programs, and helping operate a business simulation enterprise in which he is a major partner.