College of DuPage

Jack Kapoor is a professor of business and economics in the Business and Technology Division of the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he has taught business and economics since 1969. He received his BA and MS from San Francisco State College and his EdD from Northern Illinois University. He previously taught at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Management, San Francisco State University’s School of World Business, and other colleges. Professor Kapoor was awarded the Business and Technology Division’s Outstanding Professor Award for 1999–2000. He served as an assistant national bank examiner for the U.S. Treasury Department and has been an international trade consultant to Bolting Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mumbai, India.

Dr. Kapoor is known internationally as a coauthor of several textbooks, including Business: A Practical Approach (Rand McNally), Business (Houghton Mifflin),Business and Personal Finance (Glencoe), and Focus on Personal Finance (McGraw-Hill). He served as a content consultant for the popular national television series The Business File: An Introduction to Business and developed two full-length audio courses in business and personal finance. He has been quoted in many national newspapers and magazines, including USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Sun-Times, Crain’s Small Business, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications.

Dr. Kapoor has traveled around the world and has studied business practices in capitalist, socialist, and communist countries.