Dr. James A. F. Stoner

Dr. Stoner is a professor of Management Systems in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business. He joined Fordham in 1975 and holds the “James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership” established in his honor in 2002.

Before joining Fordham he was a Research Associate at MIT, Associate Professor at Columbia University, and at the Arthur D. Little Management Education Institute.

Dr. Stoner specializes in the research of leading and managing for Global Sustainability; Designing and Creating For-Profit Enterprises that Contribute to Global Sustainability Management, Spirituality, and Organizational Excellence Creating Excellent Teams Ontological Inquiry, Excellence, and Personal and Organizational Transformation

Among his honors and awards he is Professor Honorario, Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo, Distinque Profesor, Asosiacion Dominica de Profesionales en Administracion, Inc., Rrecipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence, Fordham University, and Honorific Visiting Professor, Universidad de Ricardo Palma (Lima, Peru). He received the Best Paper-Management Education, Academy of Management in 1991. His experience includes that of Project Development Officer, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), 1961-63 and Consultant to Arthur D. Little, Bell Labs, Bergen Brunswig Corporation, and Juran Institute, 1992-94

He holds degrees from Antioch College (BS and MS) and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a prolific author with many refereed papers. His three most recent publications are Fundamentals of Financial Managing (co-authored with Dr. Frank Werner), Modern Financial Managing (also co-authored with Dr. Frank Werner), and La Gerencia Dominicana (co-authored with Dr. Charles Wankel)

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