Before beginning his academic career, Professor Stoner was a project-development officer for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the government of Tanganyika, which is today the nation of Tanzania.
Stoner is an author and co-author of a number of books and journal articles, including; Management, six editions, Prentice Hall;[2] and Introduction to Business, Scott Foresman; and World-class Managing-Two Pages at a Time (co-author Freeload Press 2010).
He is a member of the Academy of Management and past chair of the Management Education and Devilment Division, the American Society for Quality; the Academy of Business Education and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the last of which he is a former board member of.
He was named a “profesor honorario" by the Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo, a “distinque profesor" by the Asosiación Dominica de Profesionales en Administración, and an honorific visiting professor at the Universidad de Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru.
At Fordham, he is a past recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at the graduate level.