John Hooker 
Professor | Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES
Biography
John Hooker has published over 200 articles, nine books, and six edited volumes in operations research, constraint programming, business ethics, cross-cultural management and music theory. 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 an active research field and provides the basis for leading software packages. Hooker 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. Professor Hooker developed the undergraduate and postgraduate ethics curricula at CMU’s Tepper School of Business. He brings his background in mathematical modeling, philosophy, and formal logic to the rigorous analysis of ethical dilemmas and distributive justice.
Areas of Expertise (2)
Business/Economics
Ethics
Media Appearances (1)
75% Of Small Businesses Would Fire Workers For Not Complying With Vaccination Policies
Forbes online
2021-09-28
John Hooker is a professor of business ethics and social responsibility at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. He said, “Ordinarily, it is not only ethically permissible but obligatory to require new employees to be vaccinated (with appropriate exceptions for medical conditions, etc.), unless employees work at home or are otherwise isolated.
