Rate My Professor Randall Dupont

Dr. Randall Dupont serves as the LSUA Alumni, Friends Endowed Chair and Professor of Management in the College of Business at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. He holds a D.B.A. and has recently returned to a full-time faculty role in the Department of Management and Marketing after serving as Dean of the College of Business. Prior to academia, Dupont had a 20-year career in the rural electrification industry. In the 1980s, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin on Capitol Hill, handling business legislation for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. He later advised rural electric utilities through the industry's national consulting group in Washington, D.C., on strategic leadership, organizational development, and human resources practices. Before joining LSUA, he was an Associate Professor of Business at the University of Mobile, where he received the university's teaching and research awards.

Dupont's research focuses on employment and occupational dynamics, including Japanese business and economy. He is the author of the CENLA Economic Dashboard, a monthly publication monitoring central Louisiana's economic indicators, distributed to 3,000 business and community leaders. He leads Leadership CenLA, a joint leadership development program with the Central Louisiana Regional Chamber of Commerce. Key publications include "Relationship Marketing: A Strategy for Consumer-Owned Utilities in a Restructured Industry" (Management Quarterly, 1998), "Wage Inequality Between Occupational Groups" (Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2016; conference presentations 2017), and conference papers such as "Japanese Entrepreneur Tsukasa Kiyono: The Forgotten Camellia King" (2017) and "The Rise and Fall of PrideAir" (2018), along with numerous book reviews. Internationally, he led an Asian Development Bank-sponsored project to implement free-market reforms in Croatia's electric utility sector following its war of independence and a four-year U.S. Agency for International Development project in Bangladesh to redesign training programs for 30,000 rural electrification workers, including management seminars for CEOs at BRAC University in Dhaka. He has presented at over 30 conferences, serves on the LSUA Faculty Senate, and was elected an officer of the Southwestern Council of Business Schools.