Joseph Di Stefano

Joseph J. DiStefano is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and International Business at IMD.

His area of interest is in cross-cultural management, organizational effectiveness and human resource management.

Professor DiStefano joined IMD's full-time faculty in January 2000 after serving as visiting professor in 1979-80 and adjunct professor during most of the intervening 20 years. He rejoined IMD from Hong Kong where he led the establishment of the first off-shore campus of The University of Western Ontario (Canada).

Professor DiStefano became Professor Emeritus at IMD upon his retirement in January 2005, but continues to direct several in-company programs at IMD and abroad. From January 1997 Joseph J. DiStefano was executive director of the Richard Ivey School of Business (Asia) and served as the Shirley Chan Memorial Professor of International Business at Ivey's Cheng Yu Tung Management Institute.

Prior to joining IMD, Professor DiStefano's appointments at the Ivey Business School included the Royal Bank Professor of International Business, founding director of business in Beijing (with Tsinghua University), associate dean - human resources, and organizational behavior area group coordinator.

He earned a BS in mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MBA at Harvard Business School, and an MA and PhD in social psychology at Cornell University. He is the recipient of The University of Western Ontario's Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and Rensselaer's Demer's Medal for outstanding service. He has served on several private sector and voluntary boards of directors in the US and Canada.

Professor DiStefano has written over 115 cases and numerous articles and book chapters and has (co)authored several books and monographs, including International Management Behavior: From Policy to Practice (5th edition, 2005) and Effective Managerial Action. Joseph J. DiStefano has been actively teaching, researching and consulting in the North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region for over thirty years. He also co-edited a casebook, Human Resource Management and Development, as part of a 16 volume set specially created at Ivey and published by Chinese Machine Press in August 1998 (English) with a new edition published in April 1999 (Chinese).

Widely in demand as a teacher and consultant around the world, Joseph J. DiStefano's clients are major multinational companies such as the OECD, The World Bank, as well as universities and governments.