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Bio
John Hooker is
University Professor of Operations Research and T. Jerome Holleran Professor
of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon
University. He has also held several visiting posts, most recently at
the London School of Economics and the State University of Campinas,
Brazil. He holds doctoral degrees in philosophy and operations
research.
Professor Hooker has published 200+ articles, 11 books, and 6 edited volumes
in operations research, constraint programming, AI, formal logic, business
ethics, ethics of AI, cross-cultural management, philosophy, and music
theory. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS) as well as recipient of the INFORMS Computing
Society Prize and the INFORMS Khachiyan Prize for lifetime
achievements in optimization. He
served as chair of the INFORMS Computing Society and in numerous editorial
positions. He is equally active in the constraint programming
community, where he has chaired conferences, served on the Executive
Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP), and received
the biennial ACP Research Excellence Award.
He is a pioneer in the integration of optimization and constraint programming
technologies, having written the first book and co-chaired the first
conference on the subject. OR/CP integration is now a key element of
leading software packages. Professor Hooker also introduced logic-based
Benders decomposition, which is based on a concept of inference
duality. It can reduce solution times by orders of magnitude and has
found a wide variety of applications. He was the first to observe the
phase transition phenomenon in satisfiability problems. He and T. Hadžić introduced decision
diagrams as an optimization method, and several investigators are now
pursuing this line of research. His recent research is
focused on mathematical models of fairness and distributive justice.
Professor Hooker’s interests in ethics and cross-cultural management are
reflected in his books Business Ethics as Rational Choice, Working
across Cultures, Taking Ethics Seriously, Advanced Introduction to Business Ethics, and The
Structure of Fair Solutions. He is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Business Ethics Education,
the only academic journal dedicated to the topic, and he co-organized
four conferences on international corporate responsibility. He has
lived and worked in Australia, Brazil, China (twice), Denmark, India (twice),
Qatar, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe, and has
extensive experience in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Mexico. In
addition, he has written a number of musical compositions for piano, chamber
groups, and chorus.
Professor Hooker received a Distinguished Academic Leadership Award for his
direction and reorganization of the Tepper School's undergraduate business
administration program. He was recognized with an Award for Sustained Teaching
Excellence (one of only two awarded) and the Gerald Thompson Excellence in
the Classroom Award.
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