John Hooker
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
jh38@andrew.cmu.edu
Above: Official photo
and portrait by granddaughter
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, 9 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. More
recently, he and T. Hadžić introduced decision diagrams as an optimization
method, and several investigators are now pursuing this line of
research.
Professor Hooker’s interests in business ethics and cross-cultural management
are reflected in his books Business Ethics as Rational Choice,
Working across Cultures, Taking Ethics Seriously, and Advanced Introduction to Business Ethics. 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.