In his classic Harvard Business Review (HBR) article of the marketing mix, Borden (1964) credits James Culliton in 1948 with describing the marketing executive as a “decider” and a “mixer of ingredients.” This led Borden, in the early 1950s, to the insight that what this mixer of ingredients was deciding upon was a “marketing mix.” McCarthy (1960, p. 52) acknowledges Frey (1956), The Effective Marketing Mix, with producing the first marketing mix checklist, consisting of more than a dozen items. Subsequently, in an obscure unpublished working paper, Borden (1957) produced a marketing mix checklist with 12 sections containing more than two-dozen subsections. With dozens of items, the marketing mix might well have remained an obscure concept, but instead took off when McCarthy (1960) reduced Frey and Borden’s