John Hooker

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, artificial intelligence, ethics, cross-cultural management, philosophy, formal logic, and music theory. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), as well as recipient the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, the INFORMS Khachiyan Prize for lifetime achievements in optimization, and the Research Excellence Award 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. He also introduced logic-based Benders decomposition, an optimization method that can reduce solution times by orders of magnitude and has found a wide variety of applications. He and Tarik 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. He has lived and worked in Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, India, 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 and the Gerald Thompson Excellence in the Classroom Award.