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John
Hooker is Professor of Operations Research and T. Jerome Holleran Professor
of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility 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 180+ articles, 8 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 and workshops and served on the Executive Committee
of the Association for Constraint Programming.
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 now
provides the basis for leading software packages like IBM's OPL Studio and
the popular award-winning solver SCIP. 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 (forthcoming). 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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