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Joseph A. Alutto
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Joseph A. Alutto
Interim President/Interim Executive Vice President and Provost,
The Ohio State University;
Professor of Management & Human Resources
Areas of expertise
managerial behavior
joint ventures
corporate performance
management education
Sino-U.S. economic activity
Education
PhD, Cornell University
MA, University of Illinois
BBA, Manhattan College
Biography
Joseph A. Alutto has been a faculty member and administrator at Ohio State since 1991, when he was appointed dean of the Fisher College, where he holds the John W. Berry Sr. Chair in Business and is a professor of management and human resources. Alutto also served as Executive Dean for the Professional Colleges, coordinating the activities of the Colleges of Education and Human Ecology, Engineering, Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Law and Social Work and representing the interests of those colleges in university-wide decision-making bodies.
Alutto is a leading authority on managerial behavior, having published a book and more than 65 articles in academic journals. His research expertise also includes joint ventures, corporate and individual performance, management education and Sino-U.S. economic activity. He has lectured widely in Asia on management issues, and in 1984 pioneered the first Sino-U.S. jointly funded MBA program offered in the People's Republic of China.
Before joining Ohio State, Alutto was the Clarence S. Marsh Professor of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo, focusing his research on Sino-U.S. joint ventures and the relationships between improvement processes and corporate performance. He also served as Dean of the SUNY-Buffalo School of Management from 1976 to 1990.
Alutto earned his B.A. in business administration from Manhattan
College, M.A. in industrial relations from the University of
Illinois, and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell
University.
Contact Information
205 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1357
(614) 292-2424

