John Hooker

T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
University Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus, Tepper School of Business

Bio

John Hooker is Professor of Operations Research and Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon University. He has 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. He has published 160+ articles, 7 books, and 5 edited volumes in operations research, ethics, cross-cultural issues, and music theory. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and a recipient of the INFORMS Computing Society Prize. He is founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Business Ethics Education, the only academic journal dedicated to teaching business ethics. In the area of operations research, he pioneered in the integration of optimization and constraint programming technologies, introduced logic-based Benders decomposition, and adapted decision diagrams to optimization. His interests in ethics and cross-cultural issues are reflected by his books Business Ethics as Rational Choice, Working across Cultures, and Taking Ethics Seriously. 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 Germany and Mexico. He maintains an Ethical Decisions Blog. He developed the ethics program at the Tepper School of Business, where he received a Distinguished Academic Leadership Award (2001), an Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence (2009), and the Gerald Thompson Award for Excellence in the Classroom (2016).